Senior Forward Deployed Strategist

Exiger • McLean, VA

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Exiger is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Strategist to serve as a technical translator on forward deployment teams. Working alongside forward deployed engineers, this person will help enterprise customers rapidly deploy AI-native solutions to complex supply chain and risk challenges. The strategist will own defined implementation workstreams, translate customer needs into clear technical requirements, and explain the technology’s capabilities and constraints to customers. The role calls for an adept problem solver who can help customers consider agentic solutions for pressing, geopolitically sensitive challenges.

The position is based in McLean, Virginia, or Richmond, Virginia, with a hybrid work environment. It requires US citizenship and travel of up to 25% to work directly with customers.

Requirements

• 2–3 years of operations consulting experience at Deloitte, PwC, EY, Accenture, or a similar organization, including technology implementation or deployment work.
• A blend of technical aptitude, including computational thinking and data manipulation, and strong communication, storytelling, and relationship-building skills.
• Proficiency in querying and analyzing datasets with SQL and Snowflake.
• Light scripting skills in Python and R.
• A solid understanding of enterprise software, data architecture, and cloud environments.
• Ability to work credibly with technical counterparts and understand what is being built, without necessarily building it personally.
• Comfort working independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and under delivery pressure, with the ability to bring structure to chaos.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to earn trust with business and technical customer stakeholders.
• US-based and a US citizen.
• Ability to travel up to 25% to work directly with customers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in supply chain risk management (SCRM), or in SCRM combined with compliance, such as trade, customs, or export compliance advisory.
• Experience at a technology company in or adjacent to the SCRM and compliance space.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver defined workstreams within customer implementations, including quality-checking outputs of AI-driven processes.
• Understand customer bottlenecks and turn loosely defined problems into scoped requirements for forward deployed engineers.
• Explain technical capabilities and constraints to customers in clear, accessible terms.
• Support customer adoption by helping run workshops, designing user-centric workflows, and training end users.
• Inspect customer data structures, clean and validate customer-provided files, and conduct rapid prototyping and ad hoc analysis, such as supplier or parts segmentation.
• Use SQL, Snowflake, Python, and R for data analysis and related work.
• Anticipate customer needs and potential failure modes, bringing structure to ambiguous environments.
• Represent the customer by identifying recurring needs that could become reusable platform capabilities and feeding field requirements back to product and engineering.

Benefits

• Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off.
• Industry-leading health, vision, and dental benefits.
• Competitive compensation package.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable.
• Wellness stipends and dedicated wellness programming.
• Career development programs with reimbursement for educational certifications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed