Forward Deployed Strategist

Join phData , a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Azure, GCP, Fivetran, Pinecone, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises. We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results. Why phData? Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years , and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year) 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status 2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more) Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US , India and LATAM phData is seeking a Forward Deployed Strategist to join our Advisory team. The Forward Deployed Strategist is a business-first consultant who helps clients rapidly identify, shape, and accelerate high-value AI and data opportunities. This role sits at the intersection of consulting, product thinking, value mapping, and technology, working directly with business stakeholders to uncover high-impact use cases, frame them in clear business terms, and turn them into actionable MVPs that deliver measurable value. At phData, the Forward Deployed Strategist is the primary business-facing lead on a small, nimble activation-style team. They quickly understand and internalize client challenges, build trust with executives, managers, and frontline operators, connect technical possibilities to business priorities, and help clients move from scattered ideas to real AI-enabled workflows, prototypes, and decisions with speed and clarity. Core Responsibilities Client Discovery & Opportunity Framing Quickly understand and internalize client challenges, constraints, stakeholder dynamics, and workflow realities. Identify high-value opportunities by immersing in business operations and uncovering messy, manual, cross-functional workflows that are addressable with AI solutions. Translate ambiguous business problems into crisply framed problem statements, use cases, hypotheses, and MVP scopes that can be validated quickly. Lead workshops, interviews, working sessions, and art-of-the-possible conversations that create alignment, momentum, and a practical path forward.Bring a user-centered design mindset to the solution identification process. Business Value, Communication & Executive Storytelling Define success in terms of business KPIs and quantify measurable business value to justify investment in MVPs and solutions. Maintain a transparent link between use cases, expected outcomes, and the client’s broader technology roadmap. Build strong relationships with business executives, functional leaders, and end users by communicating clearly, listening actively, and facilitating productive decisions.Bridge the gap between business needs and technology by developing balanced technical, organizational, and process recommendations, along with compelling narratives and rigorous business cases for AI and data investments. Act as a translator between business and technical teams, helping stakeholders understand trade-offs, risks, dependencies, timelines, and the path from MVP to a scaled solution. Prototype Activation & Scale Readiness Prototype and iterate solutions using low/no-code and AI-assisted tools to showcase value early. Work hand in hand with phData technologists to bring solutions to life quickly and frame the business value in a way stakeholders can understand.Surface platform, data, workflow, and operating model gaps that must be addressed to scale successful patte…