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Deployed Strategist

Tessera Labs · New York City Office · Remote

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About Tessera Labs

Tessera compresses ERP modernization from years to weeks with governed, multi-agent AI. Backed by a16z.

About the role

Run deep process discovery with customers — break down complex, ambiguous, cross-system problems and decide what's actually worth solving Translate messy customer needs into concrete requirements, then drive them to delivered outcomes on the Tessera platform

What they're looking for

  • 2+ years in a high-ownership, customer-facing role — Deployed Strategist, Technical Consultant, Solutions/Sales Engineer, Product Manager, or Solution Architect at a high-growth startup or technology firm
  • Technical fluency to reason about software systems, read architecture, and hold your own with engineers and customer technical leads—strong knowledge of data concepts,
  • A track record of taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems from zero to delivered
  • Strong communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • The ability to operate effectively under ambiguity and fast-moving deployments
  • An ownership mentality and the willingness to do whatever it takes to get a deployment over the line
More about this role

Office Locations: Union Square, NYC (Hybrid); San Francisco (Hybrid); San José HQ (Hybrid)

Remote work: Tessera is a remote company.

Travel : Required for customer engagements, with a wide variance per customer, of up to 50%

Deployment at Customer Site : Up to 2-3 days a week at customer site depending on customer and phase of engagement

Relocation stipend: Provided

As a Deployed Strategist (DS) at Tessera, you will drive how global enterprises deploy AI at scale. You will own our most strategic customers and deployments, operationalizing AI automation in a category with no established playbook, in a role where outcomes are asymmetric and a single person can be decisive. You are the strategic and technical arm of our pre-sales and post-sales motions, embedding in Fortune 500 customers whose expectations were set by a world before AI. The solutions you deliver augment and replace mission-critical workflows in production that previously consumed thousands of human hours and added months or years to billion-dollar project timelines.

Tessera Deployed Strategists are technical generalists with sharp product intuition. You will develop relationships with top decision-makers at the...

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