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# Forward Deployed AI Engineer (USA Based)

- **Company:** Nielsen Consumer LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $110,000.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Deployment
- **Published:** August 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/17975583?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F17975583%2FForward-Deployed-Ai-Engineer-Usa-Based-New-York-New-York

## About the Role

* 4+ years in roles close to how commercial organizations run - consulting, category or revenue growth management, insights, customer success, or solutions delivery

 * Domain grounding in CPG, retail, or consumer/commercial data

 * A track record of getting busy operators to change how they work

 * A structured communicator who turns messy conversations into crisp requirements and decisions

 * Comfortable in ambiguity, on client site, and in the room where decisions get made

Nice to have

 * Experience on forward-deployed or embedded teams, or in early-stage products finding product-market fit

 * Familiarity with NIQ/GfK data or retail measuremen

## Description

Every deployment pairs builders with an architect of the problem itself. The AI Deployment Architect is the problem-finder and relationship owner: the person who makes sure we understand the client's business better than they expect - and that what we build becomes how they actually work. You are typically not a software engineer. You are a domain insider who understands how large organizations really behave, embedded with one client, working shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers and data scientists.

What you'll do

 * Embed with client teams to find the highest-leverage problems - the recurring decisions where better data changes the outcome this quarter

 * Map how work actually gets done: who decides, who blocks, which workflow has been quietly broken for years

 * Translate business reality into requirements engineers can build against, and keep scope honest against the metric that matters

 * Own adoption and change management on the ground - onboard users, remove friction, turn skeptics into references

 * Act as the client bridge: run working sessions, manage expectations, and surface the next opportunity while the current one is live, You will be on the founding team of a new motion inside a global company - with the autonomy of a startup and the data assets of a market leader. Success is measured on client outcomes, not deliverables, and this role is a direct path to leadership as the deployment portfolio grows


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