CollegeVine · 1 month ago
Forward Deployed Strategist (AI)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
3+ years expCollegeVine is a company that deploys powerful AI agents in complex, regulated industries, focusing on improving operations in higher education. The Forward Deployed Strategist will partner with university customers to solve challenges using data and AI, taking ownership of high-stakes projects from start to finish.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareGenerative AIHigher EducationSaaS
Responsibilities
Customer Engagement & Discovery
Rapidly understand complex customer workflows and pain points
Translate domain needs into valuable technical solutions
End-to-End Delivery
Own design, development, testing, and deployment of custom features and integrations
Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists, and customer success to iterate quickly
Data-Driven Problem Solving
Leverage large‐scale datasets, LLMs, and AI agents to surface insights and automate workflows
Build dashboards, APIs, or custom agents that drive measurable impact
Travel & On-Site Collaboration
Occasional travel to client sites for discovery, workshops, training, and deployments
Qualification
Required
3+ years of product management, startup strategy & operations, consulting, investment banking, or software engineering experience, ideally including roles that involved solution delivery and customer-facing projects
Proven ability to own complex projects end-to-end in a fast-moving environment
Deeply analytical, with a knack for breaking down ambiguous challenges into concrete solutions
Eagerness to learn new tools, frameworks, and research - especially in ML/AI
Excellent interpersonal skills: able to bridge technical and non-technical audiences
Humble, pragmatic, and coachable - valuing feedback and always seeking to raise the bar
Making your work visible: share what you learn from customers with the broader org and make sure nobody is ever surprised by project status
Aspires to grow into an engineering leader or product-centric role
Comfortable stepping into uncharted territory and defining what 'done' looks like
Company
CollegeVine
CollegeVine is a platform for deploying AI Agents to replace administrative work throughout the higher education sector.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (4)
2024 (2)
2023 (1)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$66.7MKey Investors
Menlo VenturesMorningside
2025-01-01Series C
2022-10-22Series Unknown· $24M
2021-06-01Series Unknown· $12M
Leadership Team
Zack Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO
Johan Zhang
Co-Founder/CPO
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