Forward Deployed Strategist (AI)

Location: London; New York, NY; Remote

Company

Cursor AI develops AI-powered software products and platforms, including agentic coding and LLM-based workflows.

What you will do

• Partner with executive sponsors to scope technical projects from ambiguous business problems into time-boxed deliverables with measurable ROI.
• Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews, identifying integration complexity and infrastructure constraints.
• Work with Forward Deployed Engineers on builds, owning workflows, settings, integrations, and platform tooling that do not require heavy custom code.
• Run technical enablement, hands-on training, playbooks, and reference workflows until customer teams become self-sufficient.
• Own executive relationships, adoption, delivery scope, expansion opportunities, and communication between business sponsors and technical teams.
• Escalate product gaps and recurring customer pain to Product and Engineering, and build reusable playbooks for the broader FDE organization.

Requirements

• 6+ years in Solutions Architecture, Deployment Strategy, technical consulting, or Engagement Management with ownership of scoping and delivery alongside technical teams in AI-production workflows.
• Strong understanding of agentic coding and LLMs in production, including failure modes and resilient workflow design.
• Hands-on experience with Cursor workflows, integrations, and platform configuration, plus the ability to read enough Python or JavaScript/TypeScript to partner with an FDE.
• Experience shipping AI-native workflows beyond the prototype stage and distinguishing real production constraints from nice-to-have requirements.
• Ability to assess unfamiliar enterprise engineering organizations, identify high-leverage interventions, and scope projects that deliver value in weeks rather than quarters.
• Executive presence for C-suite relationships and technical credibility with engineering leads.

Nice to have

• Domain depth in financial services, insurance, telecom, high-tech, healthcare and life sciences, or semiconductors.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a pod consisting of one Strategist and one or two Forward Deployed Engineers.
• Strategists own executive relationships, project shape, configuration, and adoption, while FDEs own deeper production builds.
• Customer engagements emphasize tight scope, fast delivery, measurable adoption, and reusable implementation practices.