Deployment Strategist, New Grad
FDE Times
About the Role
Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, empowering partners to solve complex problems. The Deployment Strategist role involves leveraging data for operational action, turning customer insights into reality.
What We Do
As a Deployment Strategist, you will work with a team of Engineers, Product Designers, and other Deployment Strategists to deploy software for challenging problems. Your mission is to synthesize information to understand the most important problem, data meaning, product needs, user motivations, and potential impact. You will immerse yourself in customer workflows, partner with customer teams, explore data, and dive into the product landscape to enable scaling. A select number of Deployment Strategists may also work on internal Palantir problems.
Key Responsibilities
- Go onsite and meet with customer analysts to understand critical questions and pain points.
- Identify relevant datasets through deep engagement with customer problems and workflows, and work with Forward Deployed Engineers to integrate the data into a pipeline.
- Work with the customer to build bespoke workflows for new user groups.
- Lead training sessions to ensure the product meets user needs and is widely used for concrete impact.
- Present work results and proposals to various audiences, from analysts to C-suite executives.
- Embed with Software Engineering and Product Design teams to incorporate field insights into Palantir product offerings.
- Build and deliver demos to new and existing customers.
- Scope potential engagements in new industries and expanding global locations.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Active Full Scope Poly Level clearance
- Ability to travel 25 – 75%
Qualifications
- Experience with programming, scripting or statistical packages (e.g., Python, R, Matlab, SQL) is a plus.
- Extraordinary ability to take on open-ended problems in unstructured environments.
- Adaptive and introspective; willing to learn, teach, lead and follow.
- Curious and analytical mindset.
- Sharp intuition for product.
- Strong degree of user empathy.
- Low ego, with the outcome mattering more than credit.