Forward Deployed Program Lead (AI)

Location: Paris, France; onsite with frequent customer presence

Company

hirify.global is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems for allied forces.

What you will do

• Own the customer partnership end to end, expanding its footprint through new use cases and stakeholder relationships.
• Define and maintain the multi-year partnership roadmap, including prioritized use cases, delivery architecture, and supporting pitches.
• Run joint governance through outcome communication, monthly steering committees, demos, and customer alignment.
• Coordinate Forward Deployed Software Engineers, prioritize work, remove blockers, and review deliveries against the quality bar.
• Work with customer IT and operational teams to unblock data access, understand pain points, and define use case requirements.
• Analyze project-platform data and feed customer insights back to Product and R&D to shape the platform.

Requirements

• Product mindset: understand user needs, navigate ambiguity, and turn needs into clear use-case requirements.
• Track record of managing delivery end to end in fast-paced environments with ambitious deadlines.
• Forward-deployed experience navigating large organizations, opening doors, and growing a customer footprint.
• Analytical and engineering mindset, with comfort working with data and AI and credibility with engineers.
• Self-starter with a high degree of autonomy.
• Humility and ability to represent an agile startup within a large, established organization.
• Frequent onsite presence with the customer.
• Proficiency in English is mandatory.

Nice to have

• Experience in defense, the public sector, or other large regulated organizations.
• Experience delivering AI or data-platform projects with a customer.
• Prior experience coordinating software or data engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on autonomous and scalable defense systems with real-world impact.
• Environment focused on excellence, ambitious goals, rigor, ownership, and execution.
• Opportunity to shape both the product and the organization at an early stage of the partnership.