At its core, the Deployment Strategist role centers around leveraging data in operational and real-world action. Our customers come to us with a hunch that the only way to protect their troops, manufacture high-quality products, structure effective healthcare policies, or deliver aid to refugees safely is to make better use of their data. Deployment Strategists are responsible for turning that hunch into reality. If you believe in the transformational power of data and technology and in your own ability to bring that power to bear against complex problems, we want to meet you.
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Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Responsibilities
- Synthesize disconnected streams of thought into a cohesive understanding of what the most important problem is, what the data means, what the product needs, what users are motivated by, and where the impact could be.
- Immerse yourself in our customers' most intricate workflows, partner with customer teams, explore the data, and dive into the product landscape to enable us to scale.
- Go onsite and meet with customer analysts to understand the critical questions they need to answer and locate their biggest pain points.
- Identify relevant datasets through deep engagement with customer problems and workflows, and work with Forward Deployed Engineers to integrate the data into a stable and extensible pipeline.
- Lead training sessions to ensure that the product is meeting user needs, and to ensure it is being used widely enough to have concrete impact on our partners' operations.
- Present the results of our work and proposals for future work to audiences ranging from analysts to C-suite executives.
- Embed with our Software Engineering and Product Design teams to incorporate what you saw in the field into cross-the company product offerings.
Qualifications
- Ability to travel 25 – 75% required; varies by location and team.
- Extraordinary ability to take on open-ended problems in unstructured environments.
- Experience with programming, scripting, or statistical packages (e.g., Python, R, Matlab, SQL) is a plus.
- Adaptive and introspective; willing to learn, teach, lead, and follow.
Work Conditions
We encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation, but many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week). Based on business needs, some roles may allow for remote work on an exceptional basis. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.
