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# Founding Deployment Strategist - Polynomic

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Pear-VC posts a FDE role to plan what the customer deploys first in New York, NY, at $180,000–$250,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. The Founding Deployment Strategist owns the full customer engagement lifecycle, from onboarding and implementation to account health, while advising brands on performance marketing strategy. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Pear-VC](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pear-vc)

Posted Oct 29, 2026 by Pear-VC · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

**$180,000–$250,000** + equity New York, NY On-site Full-time

The Founding Deployment Strategist owns the full customer engagement lifecycle, from onboarding and implementation to account health, while advising brands on performance marketing strategy.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$180K–$250K Above the median

Midpoint $215K · median $190K

This job $180K to $250K. 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 **Mixed**

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

- **4+ years** management consulting or a high-performance environment *Preferred*

Background

- **Consulting**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now?

The job is in New York, NY. Could you work there?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: New York, NY

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Pear-VC

Posted by Pear-VC on Oct 29, 2026

The current ad market sucks. At Polynomic, we’re reimagining performance marketing from the ground up. We believe that ads, in various new forms, will continue to be the primary business model of the internet and the backbone of growth in commerce. Yet performance marketing today is heavily dependent on outdated playbooks, guesswork, manual effort. We believe that brands shouldn’t have to throw spaghetti at the wall and hope to get lucky to find growth. We are at an inflection point with AI and have a unique opportunity to make ads more efficient and profitable for brands through our agentic platform.

We are building autonomous, intelligent systems where brands can plug in and find the most profitable ways to grow their revenue through ads, instead of having to hire expensive agencies or spend countless hours optimizing ad campaigns.

Polynomic was founded by Madhav (ex Google Ads, Citadel, HBS, Harvard) and Nathan (ex Google Research, HBS, Stanford CS). Madhav launched a new AI ads product (0 -> $675M ARR) at Google, and Nathan launched Google’s first transformer model in production and launched key AI models powering Google Search Ads. Our team comes from Google, Jane Street, Citadel, Apple, and Amazon. We’re a well-funded seed stage startup backed by top VCs and angel investors and already have multiple high-growth consumer brands as paying customers.

### Role

As Founding Deployment Strategist, you act as the bridge between a customer's biggest performance marketing challenges and Polynomic’s technical solution. You will own the entire lifecycle of our engagement with customers.

### What you'll do

- Lead customer success and deployments: oversee onboarding, implementation, and account health for key clients, stepping in directly when needed to ensure white-glove service
- Advise customers on their ads and performance marketing strategy, help set them up for success before key brand moments, and give them context on how our AI systems are optimizing their ad accounts
- Lean heavily on AI to automate and replace manual workflows wherever they slow you down
- Champion a culture of customer obsession and operational excellence across the team
- Fill gaps - do whatever it takes to help our customers succeed, even when it doesn't fit neatly into a job description

### Preferred Experience

- Exceptional talent shows up in a lot of forms. You've demonstrated unusually strong ability and pace through your previous experience
- You've worked in management consulting or in a high performance environment for at least 4 years. You have hands-on experience in ads and/or performance marketing
- You are extremely organized, have a bias to action, and thrive in ambiguity
- You are a great communicator, and show up as warm and competent in both writing and verbally
- You have a quantitative aptitude, are very comfortable with SQL and analyzing data
- You are AI-native, use AI to create leverage in your own workflows, and are very comfortable with data
- You obsess over the details and care deeply about delivering value to customers
- You care about the problem of running efficient digital ads and recognize their impact on global commerce

This is an in-person opportunity in New York.

### Compensation

- $180k-$250k + above-market equity
- 401k with match, fully funded medical, dental, and vision insurance, comped office lunches
- Relocation support to move to NYC

[View posting at Pear-VC](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Pear-VC/3385e9cc-48a7-4e3c-a904-63c518345693/application)

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