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Automat · 2 months ago

Forward Deployed Strategist

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$145K/yr - $185K/yr

Automat is a company focused on redefining Enterprise AI Agents and Intelligent Document Processing. They are seeking a Forward Deployed Strategist to guide their team in solving complex enterprise customer challenges, improve delivery processes, and ensure effective communication between technical and non-technical teams.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer ToolsRobotic Process Automation (RPA)
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Own the technical delivery for multiple independent workstreams. Translate customer objectives into a plan with milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria
Run day-to-day FDE execution. Track and drive delivery across individual customer project teams, ensuring progress is proactively unblocked and sequenced
Define key workflows, tools, and processes for all of our customer deployments
Act as the first technical point of contact for sales, helping scope, define, and qualify potential new customer engagements in a way that helps ground them in a technical manner
Be the eyes and ears for our GTM and Engineering teams to help bridge key objectives across capacity planning and product roadmap development

Qualification

Enterprise customer engagementTechnical delivery managementCross-functional collaborationSales engineeringSolutions engineeringProactive mindsetPattern recognitionCommunication

Required

Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Demonstrated success in leading Enterprise level customer-facing technical roles (e.g., sales engineering, solutions engineering, forward deploy engineering, etc.)
Track record of successfully leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements where customer outcomes depended on tight engineering coordination and fast decision making
Intrinsically pattern match, always stepping back from execution detail to recognise broader trends across deployments in order to turn individual customer needs into scalable, reusable solutions
Top notch communication and collaboration skills, particularly bridging discussions between technical and non-technical teams
Comfort navigating ambiguity and wearing multiple hats
Proactive mindset and high initiative, with a bias toward action
An intrinsic desire to leave things better than you found them
Experience as both an IC and technical leader in startups or other dynamic, high-growth setting

Company

Automat

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The end of legacy RPA. One platform for Automation + IDP that just works.
dateFounded in 2023
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://runautomat.com

H1B Sponsorship

Automat has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$19.75M
Key Investors
FelicisInitialized CapitalY Combinator
2025-11-19Series A· $15.5M
2023-09-06Seed· $3.75M
2023-03-09Pre Seed· $0.5M
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