> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Deployment Strategist Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3f74ff10533b3250 Clarion posts a FDE role to plan what the customer deploys first in New York, NY, at $140,000–$180,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Own end-to-end software implementations for healthcare customers, from discovery and configuration through UAT, go-live, and post-launch account management. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Clarion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clarion) Posted Apr 14, 2026 by Clarion · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$140,000–$180,000** + equity New York, NY On-site Full-time Own end-to-end software implementations for healthcare customers, from discovery and configuration through UAT, go-live, and post-launch account management. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F3f74ff10533b3250&placement=top) - [View posting at Clarion](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clarion/7459d8af-c529-4487-819d-ed3867ec3ca1/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $140K–$180K Below the median Midpoint $160K · median $190K This job $140K to $180K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Plans what the customer deploys first Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Configuration only - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** running complex software implementations, technical onboarding, or customer-facing project management at a B2B SaaS company Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 3+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in New York, NY. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: New York, NY - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [Kaizen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/kaizen) ### [Deployment Strategist (Cleared) ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9093865765c199ab) New York, NY · Washington, DC Hybrid 5w ago $140,000–$180,000 [Thomson Reuters](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thomson-reuters) ### [Senior Solutions Manager, Tax & Audit AI FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6acafc2ec22e682f) Frisco, TX · New York, NY · +7 more Hybrid 7w ago $100,100–$214,100 [Axion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/axion) ### [AI Deployment Strategist ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c207d900f8457323) New York, NY 6w ago $135,000–$180,000 - [Other jobs at Clarion (2)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clarion) ## The job description from Clarion Posted by Clarion on Apr 14, 2026 ### Deployment Strategist ### About Clarion The hardest part of healthcare shouldn't be getting an appointment. Today, medical staff drown in backlogs of calls, faxes, and scheduling requests. Patients struggle to get the right care at the right time, staff members burn out, and clinics lose billions in revenue. This isn't a failure of care - it's a failure of capacity. Clarion exists to solve this problem at scale. Our AI agents handle the patient journey from end-to-end; from scheduling and rescheduling appointments, to managing referrals and prescription refills. Our AI performs complex workflows with a human-like touch that patients love. We've raised $10M from Accel, Y Combinator, and Sequoia (Scout), along with founders from Ophelia, Medallion, and Counsel Health. We're an in-person team based in New York City, moving quickly to ensure every patient gets the care they need. ### Why Join Us? - **Solving a real-world challenge:** We're addressing a critical problem that affects millions of patients and providers daily. Our AI agents outperform human schedulers and restore the time needed to focus on patients. - **Early-stage with strong market validation:** We've seen 10x revenue growth in the last year alone. We handle millions of interactions for customers ranging from virtual care clinics to a $5B health insurance company. - **Founding team:** Our co-founders bring a deep understanding of the healthcare landscape. Our CEO is a Stanford/Harvard-trained physician and clinical ops leader (Two Chairs, Ophelia), and our CTO is an ex-Amazon Alexa engineer who led AI/ML teams at Salesforce. - **Outsized early impact:** You'll be joining at an early stage where your contributions shape our company's trajectory, processes, and culture, with significant influence on how we grow. - **In-person collaboration advantage:** We've built in-person since day one and maintain this as a strategic advantage. We move faster, build stronger bonds, and create a cohesive culture. ### What You'll Be Working On - **Own implementations end-to-end:** Run every customer deployment from kickoff through go-live. Lead discovery sessions, collect scheduling rules and clinic workflows, build project plans, hold timelines, and coordinate across engineering and customer stakeholders to drive on-time launches. - **Execute the non-engineering implementation work:** Collect and organize customer inputs—scheduling rules, knowledge base content, provider configurations, appointment type matrices. Configure the Clarion platform where tooling allows—assistant settings, scheduling configurations, telephony routing, org setup. - **Be the customer's primary point of contact:** Lead kickoff calls, weekly syncs, and stakeholder check-ins. Send meeting recaps within 30 minutes. Manage all non-technical stakeholder communications and serve as the first line of response for customer issues post-launch. - **Run UAT and drive go-live:** Coordinate testing sessions where customers simulate real call scenarios. Track issue resolution, manage the production cutover, and ensure a smooth IVR redirect on launch day. - **Own accounts post-launch:** Lead recurring syncs and QBRs, triage inbound issues via Slack and email, monitor account health metrics, and surface expansion signals to the sales team. - **Shape the product:** Translate field observations and customer feedback into actionable requirements. Partner with engineering to prioritize admin tooling investments that reduce implementation effort over time. ### Requirements - **Implementation experience:** 3+ years running complex software implementations, technical onboarding, or customer-facing project management at a B2B SaaS company. You've owned timelines, managed stakeholders, and driven go-lives. - **Semi-technical fluency:** Comfortable navigating APIs, configuration interfaces, and technical documentation. You don't write production code, but you understand what engineers are building and can coordinate technical workstreams effectively. - **Project leadership:** Track record of managing multi-workstream projects and holding cross-functional resources accountable to deadlines. You track 15 things at once without dropping any. - **Customer-facing presence:** Experience as a primary customer POC—comfortable leading meetings with clinic operators and building trusted relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - **Bias toward action:** At our stage, the Implementation Manager is a player, not a coach. You do the work yourself rather than delegating or waiting. ### Interesting Challenges - **Encoding operational DNA at scale:** Every specialty practice has unique scheduling rules, referral logic, payer exceptions, and clinical workflows—often undocumented. You'll extract this knowledge from clinic operators and translate it into structured platform configurations. - **Building the repeatable machine:** Today's implementation process is being invented, not inherited. You'll develop, document, and improve the playbook after every deployment—identifying which steps can be templatized, automated, or handed to the customer. - **Bridging AI and clinic operations:** Our AI agents require iterative tuning, not just one-time configuration. You'll coordinate post-launch refinements across scheduling rules, knowledge bases, and prompt adjustments to drive accuracy in production. - **Scaling without scaling headcount:** Partner with engineering to prioritize the admin tooling and self-service capabilities that let one Implementation Manager handle the workload that currently requires multiple engineers. ### What We Offer - **Direct mentorship:** Work closely with our founding team and experienced leaders who will invest in your professional development - **Meaningful equity:** Early employee stock options with significant ownership potential - **Comprehensive benefits:** 100% covered healthcare, flexible time off, commuter benefits, weekly team lunches - **Team culture:** Quarterly retreats and monthly team events that build genuine connections in our close-knit NYC team - **Impact at scale:** Work that builds the infrastructure to help millions of patients access care ### Interview Process At each stage, we decide within 24hrs and update you shortly after: - **First Chat (15 min) [Virtual]:** A casual conversation about the role and your experience to see if there's a good initial fit. - **Implementation Case Study (1 hr) [Virtual]:** Walk through how you'd run an implementation. - **Experience & Culture (30 min) [Virtual]:** Deep dive into work style, culture fit, and previous experience. - **Onsite (Half-day) [In-Person]:** Visit our New York office to meet the team, share more about your experience, collaborate on a customer implementation plan, and talk culture. If you're ready to build the system that gets every patient the care they need, we'd love to hear from you. [View posting at Clarion](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clarion/7459d8af-c529-4487-819d-ed3867ec3ca1/application) ## About Clarion Provides AI front-office agents that automate healthcare conversations and workflows across voice, SMS, and web, including scheduling, referrals, refills, and billing. 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