Senior Forward Deployed Strategist

Exiger • Richmond, VA

7d • 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, the strategist helps enterprise customers rapidly deploy AI-native solutions to complex supply chain and risk challenges. The role owns defined implementation workstreams, translates customer needs into clear technical requirements, and explains technology capabilities and constraints to customers. It also supports customer adoption through workshops, user-centric workflow design, and end-user training; performs hands-on data inspection, cleaning, validation, prototyping, and analysis; and brings structure to ambiguous customer environments. The strategist represents the customer to product and engineering teams by identifying recurring needs that could become reusable platform capabilities. The position is hybrid and based in McLean, Virginia, or Richmond, Virginia, with travel up to 25%.

Requirements

• 2–3 years of operations consulting experience at Deloitte, PwC, EY, Accenture, or a similar firm, including work on technology implementations or deployments.
• A blend of technical aptitude, including computational thinking and data manipulation, and strong communication, storytelling, and relationship-building skills.
• Proficiency querying and analyzing datasets with SQL and Snowflake.
• Ability to do light scripting in Python and R.
• Solid understanding of enterprise software, data architecture, and cloud environments.
• Ability to understand what is being built and communicate credibly with technical counterparts; building the technology is not required.
• Self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, fast-moving environments, delivery pressure, and bringing structure to chaos.
• Strong problem-solving ability and the ability to earn trust with customer business and technical stakeholders.
• Must be US-based and a US citizen, with 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.
• Work with customer stakeholders to understand bottlenecks and translate unclear problems into scoped requirements for forward deployed engineers.
• Explain technical capabilities and constraints to customers in clear, nontechnical language.
• Help run workshops, design user-centric workflows, and train end users to support adoption.
• 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 and helping de-risk programs.
• Represent the customer by identifying recurring client needs that could become reusable platform capabilities and feeding field requirements to product and engineering.

Benefits

• Discretionary time off with no maximum limits.
• 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.
• Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement for educational certifications.

What This Job Offers

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