Deployment Strategist

Deployment Strategists are responsible for turning that hunch into reality. As a Deployment Strategist, you'll work as part of a driven and creative team of Engineers, Product Designers, and other Deployment Strategists to deploy software against the most challenging problems our world faces. Your mission is to 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. Deployment Strategists are do-ers who immerse themselves in our customers' most intricate workflows, partner with customer teams and explore the data, and dive into the product landscape to enable us to scale.

Responsibilities

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; Work with the customer to build bespoke workflows for new user groups; 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-Palantir product offerings; Build and deliver demos to new and existing customers; Scope out potential engagements in new industries and in increasingly expanding locations around the world

Requirements

Ability to travel 25 – 75% required; Extraordinary ability to take on open-ended problems in unstructured environments; Adaptive and introspective; willing to learn, teach, lead and follow; Curious and analytical mindset; Sharp intuition for product; Strong degree of user empathy; Low ego

Nice to have

Experience with programming, scripting or statistical packages (e.g. Python, R, Matlab, SQL)