Deployment Strategist

Role Description

As a Deployment Specialist, you will own the end-to-end deployment experience for our customers — from discovery to go-live — ensuring the outcome aligns with business impact. You’ll act at the intersection of strategy, project management, and operational delivery, collaborating with customers, internal teams, and technical resources to make deployments high-quality, repeatable, and outcome-driven.

What you'll do

• Customer Discovery & Planning
  • Lead structured workshops with customers to uncover business objectives, operational constraints, and success metrics.
  • Translate findings into a clear deployment roadmap and set of deliverables.
  • Define project scope, milestones, dependencies, and governance.
• Project Leadership
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for the customer during deployment.
  • Coordinate across cross-functional teams (Implementation Specialist, Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Success Manager, internal stakeholders) to ensure alignment and momentum.
  • Proactively identify risks, manage dependencies, and escalate when necessary.
  • Provide regular status updates to both the customer and internal leadership.
• Solution Design & Oversight
  • Partner with the Implementation Specialist to ensure system configurations align with business goals.
  • Work with the Forward Deployed Engineer to scope integrations and customizations.
  • Ensure that deployment deliverables map back to the business requirements and success criteria.
• Customer Enablement & Handoff
  • Lead user acceptance testing (UAT) and drive readiness for go-live.
  • Collaborate with the Customer Success Manager to ensure a smooth transition to the ongoing success phase.
  • Document lessons learned, refine the playbook, and drive continuous improvement across deployments.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in project management, SaaS implementation delivery, customer consulting, and operations.
• Strong ability to translate ambiguous business challenges into structured, executable plans.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and executive stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment where you are building repeatable processes.

Requirements

• Believe in delivering measurable outcomes to customers, not just checking off tasks.
• Enjoy being the glue across teams, driving clarity, and removing friction.
• Are comfortable juggling strategic thinking and tactical execution.
• Want to build and refine playbooks that scale, not just follow them.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Health, vision, and dental coverage.
• Commuter benefits.
• Quarterly wellness reimbursement for flexibility in defining what "health" means to you.
• Schedule flexibility for all employees with accountability in return.

Company Description

Forerunner is an early-stage company with an interdisciplinary team. We are motivated by seemingly intractable problems and work hard to support one another. Our mission orients our business strategy and pushes us to work with a sense of urgency. We're a small team, and as a member of our growing team, you will quickly become an invaluable part of our organization and have a meaningful impact on our business and technical direction. We welcome unique perspectives and backgrounds.