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Deployment Lead - Software Platfom FR
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
On-site · Paris, France
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Forward Deployed Program Lead at Harmattan AI, owning the company's first partnership built on its data platform, from strategy to delivery. The role embeds with the customer organization to define AI use cases, coordinate Forward Deployed Software Engineers, and own the multi-year roadmap.
At a glance
- Work mode
- On-site · Paris, France
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Own the project partnership end-to-end: grow our footprint with the customer through new use cases, and build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and sponsors.
- Define and own the multi-year roadmap for the partnership: a prioritized list of use cases, the architecture to deliver them, and the pitch to support them.
- Run joint governance with the customer: communicate outcomes, prepare monthly steering committees and demos, and keep the customer team aligned.
- Coordinate development across use cases: prioritize the work of the Forward Deployed Software Engineers, collect and remove blockers, and review their work against the quality bar.
- Work with the customer's IT teams to unblock data access and the technical dependencies of the development team.
- Meet the customer's operational teams to understand their pain points, and refine the value proposition of each use case.
- Analyze operational data in the project platform to understand the problem at hand before building.
- Define use case deliverables and requirements with the customer-side project manager.
- Feed what you learn back to the Product and R&D teams to shape the platform.
What we're looking for
- A product mindset: you can understand a user's need, work through high ambiguity, and turn it into clear requirements for a use case.
- Project leadership: a track record of managing delivery end-to-end in fast-paced environments, against ambitious deadlines.
- Forward-deployed experience: you know how to navigate large organizations, open doors, and grow a footprint with a customer.
- An analytical and engineering mindset: you are comfortable working with data and AI, and credible with engineers.
- Self-starter with a high degree of autonomy.
- Humility: you will represent an agile startup inside a large, well-established organization, and you know how to do it without ruffling feathers.
- Frequent on-site presence with the customer.
- Proficiency in English is mandatory.
Nice to have
- Experience in defense, public sector, or other large regulated organizations.
- Experience delivering AI or data-platform projects with a customer.
- Prior experience coordinating software or data engineers.
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About Harmattan AI
Next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems
Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. Following the close of a $200M Series B, valuing the company at $1.4 billion, they are expanding their teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.
Key facts
- Defense
- Closed a $200M Series B
- Valued at $1.4 billion
- Delivers mission-critical systems to allied forces
What they value
- Building technologies with real-world impact
- Pursuing excellence in everything we do
- Setting ambitious goals
- Taking on the hardest technical challenges