Senior Forward Deployed Strategist
Exiger
McLean, VA · Posted October 16, 2026
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About the job
Who We Are:
Exiger is the AI partner for supply chain and procurement automation. Its centralized 1EXIGER.AI platform allows organizations to manage their entire operating network, from parts to suppliers, regulators, and customers, through an autonomous agentic workforce that learns, adapts, and augments with every decision. The AI-native platform, combined with the largest supply chain knowledge asset, empowers 550+ global customers, including 150 Fortune 500 and 80+ government and defense industrial organizations, to act first. Exiger is FedRAMP® authorized and a 2x Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management.
Senior Forward Deployed Strategist
Location : Mclean, VA OR Richmond, VA | Work Environment : Hybrid
We’re looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Strategist to serve as a technical translator on our forward deployment teams, working alongside our forward deployed engineers to help enterprise customers rapidly deploy AI-native solutions to complex supply chain and risk challenges, in days, not months. You’ll own defined workstreams, turn customer needs into clear requirements for the technical team, and explain what the technology can and can’t do to the customer. As an AI-oriented company, we want an adept problem solver who can credibly help customers think through agentic solutions on some of the most pressing, geopolitically sensitive issues they face.
What You’ll Do
Own Your Workstreams: Own and deliver defined workstreams within customer implementations, such as quality-checking the outputs of AI-driven processes, and keep them moving.
Translate Between Customer and Engineering: Work with customer stakeholders to understand their bottlenecks and turn vague problems into scoped requirements for our forward deployed engineers, while explaining technical constraints to customers in plain terms.
Support Adoption: Help run workshops, design user-centric workflows, and train end users so customers actually adopt what we deploy.
Hands-on Data Analysis: Inspect customer data structures, clean and validate customer-provided files, and run rapid prototyping and ad hoc analysis (for example, segmentation to prioritize suppliers or parts) using SQL, Snowflake, Python, and R.
De-risk the Program: Bring structure to ambiguous environments by anticipating customer needs and potential failure modes.
Product Feedback Loop: Act as the voice of the customer, flagging recurring client-specific needs that should become reusable platform capabilities and feeding field requirements back to product and engineering.
What You Need
Consulting Experience: 2–3 years in operations consulting (Deloitte, PwC, EY, Accenture, or similar), including work on technology implementations or deployments.
The Hybrid Skill Set: A blend of technical aptitude (computational thinking, data manipulation) and strong communication, storytelling, and relationship-building skills.
Technical Baseline: Proficiency querying and analyzing datasets with SQL and Snowflake, and light scripting in Python and R, plus a solid understanding of how enterprise software, data architecture, and cloud environments operate. You’ll need to be credible with technical counterparts and understand what is being built, but you won’t be expected to build it yourself.
Ambiguity & Grit: A self-starter who is comfortable in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and under delivery pressure, and who brings structure to chaos.
Credibility: An adept problem solver who earns trust with both business and technical stakeholders at the customer.
Mobility: US-based and a US citizen, with the ability to travel up to 25% to work directly with customers.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in supply chain risk management (SCRM), or in SCRM combined with compliance (for example, trade, customs, or export compliance advisory).
Experience at a technology company in or adjacent to the SCRM and compliance space.
We’re an amazing place to work. Why?
Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off
Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits
Competitive compensation package
16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable
Focus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming
Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications
Artificial intelligence tools may be used to support candidate screening and evaluation.
#LI-Hybrid
Exiger is named a Leader in the Gartner ® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management, twice selected as one of Fast Company's 'Brands That Matter,' and recipient of the Third Party Risk Association's Innovator Award, Exiger's technology has been recognized by leading analyst evaluations and 50+ awards. Learn more at Exiger.com and follow Exiger on LinkedIn .
At Exiger, our values define how we work and why we lead. We are mission-inspired, imagination-driven, trust-anchored, and compassion-focused—committed to building technology that makes the world safer, more transparent, and more resilient.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Exiger’s hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.