AI Forward Deployed Engineer

About Us

About Stagwell
Stagwell is a global challenger network built to transform marketing through technology, creativity, data, and artificial intelligence. Enterprise AI Solutions is a strategic growth initiative focused on helping organizations deploy and operationalize AI-powered solutions across marketing, customer experience, data, analytics, and business operations.

Overview

Position Overview
We are seeking a highly technical, customer-facing AI Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with organizations as they deploy and scale AI-powered solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner With Customers and Sales Teams
  Work directly with enterprise customers to understand business objectives, operational challenges, data environments, and AI transformation priorities. Partner closely with sales teams throughout the customer lifecycle, from discovery and demos through deployment and adoption.

• Support customer meetings, technical discovery sessions, solution workshops, and executive presentations.
  Help sales teams tell the AI story through customer-specific scenarios, demonstrations, and solution positioning. Serve as a trusted advisor to both customer stakeholders and internal go-to-market teams. Support customer onboarding, adoption efforts, and ongoing technical success initiatives.

• Design & Deploy AI Solutions
  Architect practical AI-powered solutions that address real business challenges. Translate customer requirements into deployable solution designs. Build customer-specific use cases, workflows, and AI-powered business scenarios. Develop and validate proof-of-concepts, pilot programs, and production-ready solutions. Configure, optimize, and operationalize AI solutions within customer environments. Partner with technical teams to accelerate implementation and adoption. Help customers establish repeatable AI-enabled workflows and operating models.

• Own implementation efforts from discovery through deployment.
  Facilitate technical workshops, solution working sessions, and implementation planning. Support customer onboarding, technical validation, testing, and rollout activities. Navigate technical, operational, and organizational obstacles to ensure successful execution. Drive cross-functional alignment between business stakeholders, technical teams, and implementation partners. Ensure successful transition from pilot programs to production deployments.

• Solve Complex Problems
  Work directly with customer stakeholders to identify opportunities where AI can create measurable business value. Rapidly evaluate new use cases and determine practical implementation approaches. Troubleshoot solution gaps, workflow challenges, and adoption barriers. Iterate quickly based on customer feedback and evolving business requirements. Help customers move from experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption. Balance technical constraints, business priorities, and customer goals to drive successful outcomes.

• Shape the Future of Enterprise AI Solutions
  Surface emerging customer needs, market trends, and solution opportunities. Contribute to reusable frameworks, playbooks, demo environments, and implementation methodologies. Influence product strategy and roadmap decisions through direct customer engagement. Help establish best practices for enterprise AI deployment across Stagwell. Support the development of repeatable deployment and onboarding programs. Share learnings that improve how Enterprise AI Solutions engages customers and scales delivery.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications
  5+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, Implementation Consulting, Sales Engineering, AI Consulting, Enterprise Software, Digital Transformation, or similar customer-facing technical roles. Experience working directly with enterprise customers in complex technology environments. Proven ability to translate business challenges into deployed technology solutions. Experience leading discovery sessions, workshops, solution design efforts, onboarding activities, and implementation initiatives. Hands-on experience supporting customer deployments, pilots, proof-of-concepts, technical evaluations, or production rollouts. Strong understanding of enterprise data ecosystems, customer data platforms, analytics platforms, identity resolution, audience intelligence, and modern marketing technology environments. Experience working with customer workflows, business processes, data mapping, or solution configuration activities. Ability to communicate effectively with both executive and technical stakeholders. Strong problem-solving skills and comfort operating within ambiguous, evolving environments. Demonstrated ownership mentality and ability to drive initiatives from concept through execution.

• Preferred Qualifications
  Experience with AI, machine learning, customer intelligence, marketing technology, customer data platforms, analytics, or enterprise software ecosystems. Familiarity with marketing technology workflows and processes is strongly preferred. Experience supporting technical sales motions, customer demonstrations, onboarding programs, and solution adoption efforts. Familiarity with Palantir Ontology concepts, customer data models, workflow mapping, audience activation, marketing measurement, and enterprise data architectures. Experience supporting Fortune 1000 organizations and large-scale transformation initiatives. Understanding of generative AI, agentic AI systems, intelligent automation, and enterprise AI deployment models. Experience working with marketing, media, customer experience, analytics, or growth teams.

Pay

Compensation
In order to comply with equal pay and salary transparency laws in various locations, we believe the target range of base compensation in New York City for this role is $160,000 - $200,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location. This role includes commission-based incentive compensation.

Benefits

• Benefits/perks
  Medical, dental and vision coverage, generous PTO plan, 401k program, comprehensive family planning benefits (including paid parental leave), tuition reimbursement, and pre-tax commuter benefits.