> 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/905f2a10e440ea13 Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) posts a FDE role to plan what the customer deploys first in San Francisco, CA, at $150,000–$275,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Own customer engagements from contract signature through AIUC-1 certification, coordinating evidence collection, technical evaluation, audits, and certificate issuance. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-aiuc) Posted Apr 21, 2026 by Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$150,000–$275,000** San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time Own customer engagements from contract signature through AIUC-1 certification, coordinating evidence collection, technical evaluation, audits, and certificate issuance. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F905f2a10e440ea13&placement=top) - [View posting at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aiuc/f854dfc8-029e-4d5d-aad7-303959582c0a/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 $150K–$275K Above the median Midpoint $213K · median $190K This job $150K to $275K. 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 pre-sales or support** - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **4+ years** Leading complex, client-facing engagements in consulting, audit, enterprise delivery, or similar environments - **7+ years** Leading complex, client-facing engagements in consulting, audit, enterprise delivery, or similar environments Background - **Implementation and data engineering** - **Consulting** Visa - **Sponsors visas** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 4+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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Our mission is to Underwrite superintelligence. We exist because risk, not capability, is becoming the binding constraint on AI being useful. History offers lessons for how to build confidence in new technology; electricity burned down houses until insurers funded Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to certify products against their standards. Today, the UL mark is a trustmark on every light bulb in America. We’re building that for AI. AIUC-1, our standard for agent security, serves frontier builders like Cursor, Lovable, ElevenLabs, and Harvey. We've raised $55m from Ribbit, First Harmonic and Nat Friedman to audit frontier AI. Our team comes from METR, Anthropic, McKinsey, and OpenAI. Come join us. ### The Role Our customers are the world’s leading AI companies, including ElevenLabs, Harvey, Cursor, and many others not yet announced. As demand for AIUC-1 continues to grow, so does the need for a Delivery function that can scale alongside it. As a member of the Delivery team, you will be the primary partner to customers from contract signature through certification – guiding them from kickoff to a completed AIUC-1 certification report that enables enterprises to confidently deploy their AI agents. You'll lead complex, multi-stakeholder engagements spanning evidence collection, technical evaluation, audit coordination, and certificate issuance. Along the way, you'll work closely with customer security and legal teams, external auditors, and AIUC's GTM and product teams to ensure successful outcomes under ambitious timelines. Beyond delivery, you'll help define how AIUC scales. Every customer engagement surfaces new patterns, challenges, and opportunities to improve our certification process and product. As one of the earliest members of the team, you'll play a key role in building the systems, playbooks, and standards that power AIUC's next stage of growth. ### In this role, you will - Own the end-to-end AIUC-1 certification process, from scoping and kickoff through certificate issuance - Lead complex customer engagements across security, legal, engineering, executive stakeholders, and external auditors - Orchestrate projects under ambitious timelines while maintaining exceptional quality and customer experience - Drive productization of the AIUC-1 certification experience by turning repeatable customer patterns into scalable workflows, tooling, and product improvements - Partner closely with Product and GTM teams to translate customer insights into improvements to AIUC-1 and future product development ### What we're looking for - 4-7 years of experience leading complex, client-facing engagements in consulting, audit, enterprise delivery, or similar environments - Executive presence and strong communication skills, with the ability to build credibility with senior customer stakeholders - High attention to detail and sound judgment, particularly when evaluating evidence and making nuanced decisions - Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes where no established playbook exists - Exceptional project management skills with the ability to manage multiple enterprise customers simultaneously - A collaborative operator who enjoys working across customers, product, GTM, and external partners ### Nice to have - Experience at a top consulting firm, audit firm, or forward deployed/customer deployment organization - Experience working with AI, security, compliance, or enterprise software - A product mindset with an interest in improving systems and building scalable processes ### Our Values We are in the business of building trust. We take our values seriously and treat them as commitments to each other, held to the same bar as the ones we make to customers. - Strong back: high standards, keep our promises, work hard. - Fast feet: experiment, cut scope, take delight in pace. - Eyes up: wrestle with the mission, and let where AI is heading shape our strategy, our teams and our day-to-day work. - Open heart: say the scary thing, create connection, make room for emotions. Underwriting superintelligence is our life's work. If you want it to be yours, apply now. ### Compensation & Perks - Competitive annual salary - Equity (significant part of total compensation) - Health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents - Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if needed - Daily lunch, dinner & snacks [View posting at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aiuc/f854dfc8-029e-4d5d-aad7-303959582c0a/application) ## Similar jobs [Liberate](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/liberate) ### [Founding Deployment Strategist ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1b2e16f199cb02c1) San Francisco, CA · Boston, MA Hybrid 3mo ago $185,000–$260,000 [Pallet](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pallet) ### [Deployment Strategist (AI/ML Product)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4f98f6e7ae1e5bf2) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 2mo ago $150,000–$240,000 [Column](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/column) ### [Deployment Strategist (Travel Heavy)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3554fedbed1bae4c) San Francisco, CA On-site 3w ago $150,000–$275,000 [Afresh](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/afresh) ### [Deployment Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1960ef4a20e750b6) San Francisco, CA Remote 7w ago $171,200–$256,800 · OTE [Serval](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/serval) ### [Deployment Strategist, Flagship Account](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fdf9cb94545435b8) Santa Clara, CA · San Francisco, CA Hybrid 7w ago $150,000–$280,000 - [Compare senior FDE salary ranges](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior) - [Similar jobs in SF Bay Area](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=sf-bay-area) - [Similar jobs that plan what the customer deploys first](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?role=strategist) Hiring at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) and want this page changed or removed? 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