<div class="content-intro"><p>Join<a href="https://www.phdata.io/about-us/"> phData</a>, 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, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises.</p> <p>We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results.</p> <p><strong>Why phData?</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.phdata.io/blog/snowflake-ai-partner-of-the-year-phdata-2026/">Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years</a>, and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year</li> <li><a href="https://www.phdata.io/blog/phdata-achieves-aws-premier-tier-services-partner-status/">AWS Premier Tier Services Partner</a> — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network</li> <li><a href="https://www.phdata.io/blog/phdata-awarded-2025-fivetran-partner-of-the-year/">2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year</a> (4th consecutive year)</li> <li><a href="https://www.phdata.io/blog/phdata-awarded-dbt-labs-2025-partner-of-the-year/">2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year</a> (3x winner) with Visionary partner status</li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7460802867289931776/">2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7470146864122667009/">Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network</a></li> <li>#1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications</li> <li>600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more)</li> <li>Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the <a href="https://www.phdata.io/blog/phdata-named-one-of-the-2025-best-places-to-work-by-the-minneapolis-st-paul-business-journal/">US</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/phdata_we-are-thrilled-to-announce-that-phdata-has-activity-7313364620361023488-dLbY/?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAACHsnsAB3KhebxJJDcDQXo4DYIRLe3MzoXE&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link">India</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/phdata_phdata-careers-latam-activity-7390039860918747136-bk15/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAACHsnsAB3KhebxJJDcDQXo4DYIRLe3MzoXE">LATAM</a></li> </ul></div><p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">phData is seeking a Forward Deployed Strategist to join our Advisory team. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Core Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Client Discovery & Opportunity Framing</em></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Quickly understand and internalize client challenges, constraints, stakeholder dynamics, and workflow realities.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Identify high-value opportunities by immersing in business operations and uncovering messy, manual, cross-functional workflows that are addressable with AI solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Translate ambiguous business problems into crisply framed problem statements, use cases, hypotheses, and MVP scopes that can be validated quickly.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Business Value, Communication & Executive Storytelling</em></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Define success in terms of business KPIs and quantify measurable business value to justify investment in MVPs and solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Maintain a transparent link between use cases, expected outcomes, and the client’s broader technology roadmap.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build strong relationships with business executives, functional leaders, and end users by communicating clearly, listening actively, and facilit