Forward Deployed AI Strategy Lead

Skills

About the Role

Prime Intellect is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Strategy Lead to work directly with strategic customers, identify high-value AI workflows, translate them into evaluations and post-training opportunities, scope technical deployments with Applied Research, and turn experiments into long-term revenue.

Requirements

• Strong intuition for AI products and workflows.
• Ability to understand technical systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Comfort working with executives, researchers, engineers, and operators.
• High agency and low ego.
• Ability to run multiple complex customer workstreams.
• Strong commercial instincts.
• Deep curiosity about post-training, agents, evaluations, reinforcement learning, and AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic customer workstreams from technical discovery through proofs of concept, deployment, expansion, and case studies.
• Identify high-value AI workflows and translate them into evaluations and post-training opportunities.
• Define use cases, success metrics, evaluation designs, environment requirements, integrations, milestones, commercial structures, risks, dependencies, and expansion paths.
• Turn ambiguous customer information into executable scopes for Applied Research and Engineering.
• Bring customer signals into research and product roadmaps.
• Build discovery templates, qualification frameworks, proof-of-concept structures, proposals, pricing inputs, reference architectures, case studies, and deployment playbooks.
• Move customers through qualification, legal, scoping, proposal, procurement, proof of concept, deployment, and expansion.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Flexible work in San Francisco or hybrid-remote
• Visa sponsorship
• Relocation support
• Professional development budget
• Team off-sites
• Conference attendance
• Direct exposure to frontier AI labs, leading AI startups, and enterprise AI teams