Forward Deployed Lead

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
200K-400K Annually
Mid level
Professional Services • Consulting
The Role
Leads client deployments by understanding operational needs, identifying software-agent opportunities, scoping requirements, and coordinating integrations, prototypes, implementation, adoption, and measurable outcomes. Partners with engineers, company leadership, founders, and commercial teams to guide deployment decisions, influence product priorities, and develop customer deployment practices. The role requires technical fluency, client-facing autonomy, and full-time onsite work in New York.
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About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Work between clients, company leadership, builders and commercial teams to turn unclear operational problems into feasible deployment plans and measurable results. The role pairs discovery work with enough technical depth to judge what can be built, then guides the work from the first use case through to adoption.

What you'll do

- Learn how client teams, systems, stakeholders and constraints fit together.

- Spot areas where automated software agents could produce clear business value.

- Convert client needs into scoped requirements and a plan for building them.

- Work with engineers on integrations, prototypes and deployment decisions.

- Coordinate early deployments, set success measures and help clients adopt new ways of working.

- Feed client insight into product priorities and commercial discussions.

- Shape the company's approach to customer deployments alongside the founder and founding engineers.


Requirements

What we're looking for

- Two to five years in sales, solutions or product work, collaborating with customers and technical staff.

- An engineering bachelor's degree, with computing-related fields preferred.

- Technical fluency with APIs, data flows, integrations and software implementation.

- Skill in converting a client's day-to-day operations into requirements and rollout steps.

- A track record of seeing client rollouts, uptake or quantifiable results through to completion.

- Able to work autonomously with client-facing staff, developers and sales leaders.

- Can weigh build options alongside developers and translate the pros and cons for lay stakeholders.

- Comfort with lightweight prototyping or technical analysis; full-time coding is not required.

- Able to commit to full-time on-site work in New York.

Bonus points

- Prior work launching machine learning tools inside large organizations.

- Understanding of heavily governed sectors or intricate internal processes.

- Past involvement in client research, rollout support or sales pursuits.

- Prior entrepreneurial experience.

- Experience building functional prototypes independently.

- Hands-on time at a young tech firm touching both client relationships and the build side.


Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Salary: $200,000 to $400,000

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States

- On-site, in office, full-time

Skills Required

  • Two to five years of experience in sales, solutions, or product work collaborating with customers and technical staff
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, preferably in a computing-related field
  • Technical fluency with APIs, data flows, integrations, and software implementation
  • Ability to translate client operations into requirements and rollout steps
  • Track record of completing client rollouts, driving adoption, or achieving quantifiable results
  • Ability to work autonomously with client-facing staff, developers, and sales leaders
  • Ability to evaluate build options with developers and explain tradeoffs to nontechnical stakeholders
  • Comfort with lightweight prototyping or technical analysis; full-time coding is not required
  • Commitment to full-time onsite work in New York
  • Experience launching machine learning tools inside large organizations
  • Understanding of heavily governed sectors or complex internal processes
  • Experience with client research, rollout support, or sales pursuits
  • Prior entrepreneurial experience
  • Experience independently building functional prototypes
  • Experience at a young technology company spanning client relationships and development work
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The Company
28 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.

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