search Browse Jobs
Deployment StrategistDatabricks · London, United Kingdom
Databricks logo

Databricks

company page ↗ Visa Sponsoring Company

Deployment Strategist

✓ This company has sponsored visas before. The posting doesn't say so, but it's still worth applying.

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-18 London, United Kingdom Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 8,333 GBP–12,500 GBP/mo

About the Company

The FDE (Forward Deployed Engineering) team is a new, strategic initiative sponsored from the CEO and Founders down. Our mission is to win C-suite-sponsored, high-value AI opportunities by selling and delivering outcomes, not just a platform. You will be part of the founding team, embedded with our most strategic customers from the very first sales call, all the way through to a production-ready solution. You will be the "product manager" for the customer's problem, responsible for the "why" and "what," while our FDEs (Engineers) will be your partners responsible for the "how."

Responsibilities

  • ● Partner with Sales to perform deep discovery, map the customer's organization, quantify the business value ( 10M+ problems), and define the pilot (MVP, success criteria, timeline).
  • ● Act as the "CEO" of the project by authoring the PRD, prioritizing the engineering backlog, relentlessly managing scope, and acting as the primary hands-on QA tester.
  • ● Drive the FDE build team via an agile process, manage all stakeholder communications from the C-suite to individual engineers, and act as the "escalation manager" to unblock all technical or political issues.
  • ● Own the "Day 0" launch, manage the war room, and drive the solution from launch to full adoption by capturing user feedback, iterating, and proving the defined business value.
  • ● Scope the ongoing maintenance plan, create customer documentation/training, and leverage your trusted advisor status to identify the next high-value FDE engagement.

Requirements

  • ● C-suite gravitas
  • ● Deep product-style thinking
  • ● A hands-on, "get it done" execution mindset.
  • ● A "Trusted Advisor" with superb communication skills who is opinionated, humble, and can build rapport and drive decisions in days, not weeks.
  • ● A "Product Thinker" and "Systems Thinker" who can perform a SWOT analysis, understand a competitive landscape, and define "what" to build and "why."
  • ● Relentless Execution