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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Deployment Lead - **Company:** David Joseph & Company - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $110,000.0 - $180,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Software Deployment - **Published:** August 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e3e7989b5af741c3 ## About the Role * 3-5 years in a customer-facing deployment, implementation, or customer success role at a fast-moving startup or tech company. * Strong product instincts and technical comfort - happy configuring software and working with integrations, and quick to master new products (no engineering background required). * Excellent client-facing communication; able to build trust with operators and end users and represent the company well. * Highly organized and a strong problem-solver, comfortable owning a customer portfolio and juggling several workstreams at once. * Entrepreneurial and self-directed, at ease building without a ready-made playbook in an early-stage setting. * Based in New York City and able to work on-site at least three days a week., * Time at an early-stage SaaS company, ideally in a deployment, implementation, or operations role. * A healthcare background or familiarity with how clinical practices operate. * Experience at a high-talent technology organization known for its bar on people. * A strong university background. * A track record of building things - side projects, products, or other entrepreneurial initiative outside a formal role. * Hands-on with modern AI coding tools. ## Description This is a founding post-sale role: you'll own everything that happens after a customer signs - implementation, deployment, customer success, and expansion - and build the US operations function from the ground up. You'll report directly to the CEO, own net revenue retention as your core metric, and grow the function into a small team over your first year. Early success looks like getting the first wave of US accounts deployed and in production and turning your work into a repeatable onboarding playbook. What you'll be doing * Own the full post-sale lifecycle for US customers - configure and deploy signed accounts into production, drive fast time-to-go-live, and keep deployment success high. * Act as the primary point of contact for customer success, support, and account management so the sales team stays focused on new business. * Drive retention and expansion against a personal upsell quota; net revenue retention is the metric that matters most. * Build and document a repeatable US onboarding and deployment playbook. * Get deep enough in the product to configure and go live independently, working with integrations and no-code tooling. * Hire and lead a small operations team as the customer base grows. Tech stack: AI voice agent platform, product integrations, and no-code tooling; comfort with AI coding tools is a plus., * Founding ownership of a brand-new US function, reporting straight to the CEO. * A product with real, fast-growing traction in its home market, now expanding into the US. * Genuine scope and upside - own retention and expansion, carry variable comp on upsell, and build and lead your own team. ## Related Videos - [AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100340-ai-driven-development) - [100 times more frequent deployments: How did we create a high performance team?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1069-100-times-more-frequent-deployments-how-did-we-create-a-high-performance-team) - [Beyond the Hype: Building Trustworthy and Reliable LLM Applications with Guardrails](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1594-beyond-the-hype-building-trustworthy-and-reliable-llm-applications-with-guardrails) - [Edit Your Future: Queerverse Radical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/909-edit-your-future-queerverse-radical-ai) - [Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100354-angstfreude-ai-and-corporate-culture-the-thrill-and-the-threat) - [The AI-Fluent Team: A Playbook for Driving Enterprise AI Transformation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100068-the-ai-fluent-team-a-playbook-for-driving-enterprise-ai-transformation) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Trustworthy AI Starts at Deployment: 5 Checks Before You Ship](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/753-trustworthy-ai-starts-at-deployment-5-checks-before-you-ship) - [What Industries Outside of AI Are Hiring The Most AI Experts?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/98-what-industries-outside-of-ai-are-hiring-the-most-ai-experts) - [Why Your AI Tool Fails After the Demo](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/704-why-your-ai-tool-fails-after-the-demo) - [Got AI ideas but no money? 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