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Head of Deployment Strategy

Kira Systems · New York · Remote

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About Kira Systems

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About the role

Kira’s largest accounts, starting with the London university partnership, launch successfully and grow through renewal and expansion Deployment Strategists independently own the senior stakeholder relationships on their accounts, with far fewer escalations to Kira’s founders Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • You came up through the ranks: you have done the hands-on work yourself and can coach others through it
  • A track record of earning trust with C-suite and owner-level stakeholders on demanding, politically complex accounts
  • Experience managing, coaching, or developing people, whether as a formal manager or by leading client engagement teams
  • You have built processes and teams from scratch, and you’re comfortable creating structure where none exists while still getting into the weeds yourself
  • Fluency with complex products and comfort working alongside engineers to scope and deploy solutions
  • Extensive hands-on experience using AI tools in your day-to-day work, and a track record of helping others adopt AI-native ways of working
More about this role

We live in a world where technology is rapidly changing the educational experiences of students and teachers everywhere, and we have the opportunity to shape how this change takes place. Kira’s mission is to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class personalized teaching and learning accessible to everyone. We are a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, and Primavera.

Being able to implement large deployments successfully is increasingly becoming a critical part of Kira’s business. Our Deployment Strategists embed closely with our largest customers, including governments who are rethinking their education system completely with Kira, global education enterprises, and universities, to figure out how Kira can be deployed across the organization to teachers, students and administrators in way that is effective for them. They then deliver it alongside product, design, and engineering. As Head of Deployment Strategy, you will be the first leader of this team. This is a player-coach role. You will personally own a portfolio of Kira’s largest and most complex accounts, starting...

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