Staff Deployment Strategist, Governance & Industry Advisory
AI summary of the role
Alation seeks a Staff Deployment Strategist to lead high-impact deployments of its data intelligence platform, focusing on governance and AI readiness in regulated industries.
What you’ll do
- Diagnose data and AI governance gaps in regulated industries and translate them into Alation-backed solutions.
- Lead discovery sessions, product demos, and adoption workshops for enterprise stakeholders.
- Own end-to-end delivery of Alation implementations and services engagements from kickoff to defined business outcomes.
- Define KPIs and value measures; build data-backed value stories connecting governance to business impact.
What you’ll bring
- Minimum 6+ years of consulting experience in a lead role delivering successful projects with measurable business outcomes.
- Experience delivering services as part of a software company.
- Extensive data management experience with focus on data governance, data quality, MDM, or reference data.
- Demonstrated expertise in at least one target industry (Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Hospitality/Travel) and its governance/regulatory landscape.
Technologies
data governance · AI governance · data catalog · metadata management · data lineage · master data management · reference data · model risk management · regulatory reporting
About Alation
AI-powered data intelligence platform helping enterprises find, understand, and trust data for analytics, governance, and AI readiness
Private Late · 500–1000 people
Source and classification
Deployment strategy · Evidence for this classification:
results together. Job Description: Drive high-impact deployments at the intersection of data intelligence, AI, and governance, with deep grounding in the regulatory and operational realities of complex, regulated industries. As a Deployment Strategist, you act as a trusted advisor to enterprise stakeholders, translating complex governance and business challenges into a clear path toward measurable Alation adoption and value. You bring expertise in the data space — data governance, data catalog, and/or governed AI concepts — along with knowledge of the broader data ecosystem. Strong industry acumen across target verticals (Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and/or Hospitality and Travel) is essential, with the ability to speak to the governance, compliance, and data quality challenges specific to each. What You’ll Do Diagnose data and AI governance gaps specific to
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