Senior Forward Deployed Strategist, Public Sector
AI summary of the role
Senior Forward Deployed Strategist for a venture-backed AI security company, helping public sector customers operationalize AI evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platforms in mission-critical environments.
What you’ll do
- Become deeply fluent in the company's evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platform.
- Work directly with public sector customers to identify high-impact use cases across AI evaluation, red-teaming, runtime controls, governance, observability, and agentic systems.
- Translate mission needs, policy requirements, technical constraints, and stakeholder priorities into practical deployment strategies, success criteria, and implementation plans.
- Create tailored demos, workshops, briefings, pilot plans, and customer-facing collateral for federal executives, technical teams, mission users, and partner organizations.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years in public sector technology, defense technology, strategy consulting, technical program management, solutions, product strategy, enterprise SaaS, or other customer-facing roles.
- Deep expertise in Generative AI and LLM systems, including model behavior, evaluation design, red-teaming, RAG/copilot architectures, prompt injection, guardrails, observability, and agentic workflows.
- Strong technical fluency across enterprise software, cloud environments, APIs, AI/ML systems, cybersecurity, or deployment architectures.
- Ability to translate customer needs into use cases, solution strategies, implementation plans, success criteria, and executive-ready narratives.
Technologies
Generative AI · LLM · red-teaming · RAG · copilot · prompt injection · guardrails · observability · agentic workflows · cloud · API · AI/ML
About Sitreps
Veteran-focused career platform and recruiting firm helping military operators transition into defense tech, private equity, and other high-intensity business roles.
Series A
Source and classification
Deployment strategy · Evidence for this classification:
protecting sensitive data and enforcing policy at runtime, governing what AI agents are allowed to do, and maintaining the evidence trail oversight bodies require. The platform runs across cloud, hybrid, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments. The team is standing up a dedicated public sector organization, and these are early seats on it. About the Role Our client is looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Strategist to help public sector customers operationalize their platform in mission-critical environments. This role sits at the intersection of mission strategy, technical solutioning, customer execution, AI assurance, and public sector growth. You will work directly with government stakeholders, mission users, technical evaluators, systems integrators, primes, and the company's product and engineering teams to turn operational needs into deployable AI control strategies. This
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Senior Forward Deployed Strategist, Public Sector Compensation: $147,000 – $185,000 base salary, plus equity, company benefits, and incentive compensation. Location: Washington, DC or San Francisco, CA. These are the only two locations under consideration. No other locations, and no fully remote option. Role Type: Full-Time Employee, Individual Contributor Work Model: Customer-facing, with regular on-site engagement and up to 50% travel Clearance: U.S. Citizenship required; active clearance preferred, eligibility and willingness to obtain one required Client name withheld. Sitreps Talent is managing the search, and interested candidates apply through Sitreps. About the Client Our client is a venture-backed AI security company. Their platform helps government and enterprise customers put AI systems into production safely: evaluating models and applications before deployment, protecting sensitive data and enforcing policy at runtime, governing what AI agents are allowed to do, and maintaining the evidence trail oversight bodies require. The platform runs across cloud, hybrid, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments. The team is standing up a dedicated public sector organization, and these are early seats on it. About the Role Our client is looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Strategist to help public sector customers operationalize their platform in mission-critical en [... source excerpt omitted ...] ers, technical evaluators, systems integrators, primes, and the company's product and engineering teams to turn operational needs into deployable AI control strategies. This is a customer-facing strategy and execution role, not a traditional sales or project management role. You will shape use cases, guide pilots, support technical discovery, help customers move from evaluation into initial deployment, and make sure the work delivers measurable mission value. Responsibilities Become deeply fluent in the company's evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platform. Work directly with public sector customers to identify high-impact use cases across AI evaluation, red-teaming, [... source excerpt omitted ...] raints, and stakeholder priorities into practical deployment strategies, success criteria, and implementation plans. Create tailored demos, workshops, briefings, pilot plans, and customer-facing collateral for federal executives, technical teams, mission users, and partner organizations. Partner with product, engineering, and delivery teams to operationalize capabilities in customer environments. Act as an AI assurance subject-matter expert for customers, translating model, application, data, and agent risks into practical evaluations, runtime controls, and governance patterns. Support public sector growth efforts, including RFIs/RFPs, white papers, pilot proposals, partner s
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