About The Role:As a Forward Deployed Strategist at CollegeVine, you'll partner directly with our university customers to solve their biggest challenges using data, AI, and web technologies. You'll work in small, cross-functional teams, owning end-to-end delivery of high-stakes projects: from requirements gathering and architecture to code, deployment, and ongoing support.
This role is ideal for someone who aspires to be both a technical leader and a strategic partner-think startup CTO meets solutions architect - with the opportunity to influence product direction and drive real outcomes for education institutions.
Responsibilities:- Customer Engagement & Discovery
- Rapidly understand complex customer workflows and pain points.
- Translate domain needs into valuable technical solutions.
- End-to-End Delivery
- Own design, development, testing, and deployment of custom features and integrations.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists, and customer success to iterate quickly.
- Data-Driven Problem Solving
- Leverage large-scale datasets, LLMs, and AI agents to surface insights and automate workflows.
- Build dashboards, APIs, or custom agents that drive measurable impact.
- Travel & On-Site Collaboration
- Occasional travel to client sites for discovery, workshops, training, and deployments.
What We're Looking For:- Experience & Expertise
- 3+ years of product management, startup strategy & operations, consulting, investment banking, or software engineering experience, ideally including roles that involved solution delivery and customer-facing projects.
- Proven ability to own complex projects end-to-end in a fast-moving environment.
- Problem-Solving Mindset
- Deeply analytical, with a knack for breaking down ambiguous challenges into concrete solutions.
- Eagerness to learn new tools, frameworks, and research - especially in ML/AI.
- Collaboration & Communication
- Excellent interpersonal skills: able to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.
- Humble, pragmatic, and coachable - valuing feedback and always seeking to raise the bar.
- Making your work visible: share what you learn from customers with the broader org and make sure nobody is ever surprised by project status.
- Entrepreneurial Drive
- Aspires to grow into an engineering leader or product-centric role.
- Comfortable stepping into uncharted territory and defining what "done" looks like.
