Forward Deployed Strategist / Engineer (AI)

CollegeVine is a company that deploys powerful AI agents in complex industries, focusing on higher education. The Forward Deployed Strategist will partner with university customers to solve challenges using data and AI, owning the end-to-end delivery of high-stakes projects.

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

Requirements:

• 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