Forward Deployed Consultant, Manufacturing
AI summary of the role
Forward Deployed Consultant specializing in manufacturing, embedded in Miro's Professional Services to drive AI transformation at industrial enterprises.
What you’ll do
- Partner with C-level executives (COO, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Chief Digital Officer, VP Manufacturing, VP Quality) to define an AI transformation agenda
- Lead Validation Sprints end-to-end, developing and testing AI solutions on customer data and systems
- Rebuild manufacturing processes across five workflows: NPD/gate review, quality, portfolio/program management, operations/launch readiness, process development
- Build using Miro's AI Workflows, Prototypes, and Goals/Roadmaps/Delivery, extended via API, WebSDK, and MCP into ERP, PLM, MES, and quality systems
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years in top-tier consulting, forward deployed engineering, solution consulting, or enterprise transformation, weighted toward manufacturing
- Deep understanding of manufacturing processes: NPI, stage-gate/APQP, engineering change, quality systems (FMEA, 8D, PPAP), S&OP, lean, maintenance
- Fluency with industrial enterprise stack: ERP (SAP), PLM (Teamcenter, Windchill, 3DEXPERIENCE), MES, QMS
- Credibility with COO, Chief Supply Chain Officer, VP Operations, VP Quality, Plant GM stakeholders
Technologies
Miro · Cursor · Claude Code · ChatGPT · MCP · API · WebSDK · SAP · Teamcenter · Windchill · 3DEXPERIENCE · MES
About Miro
AI-first visual workspace for enterprise teams to map strategy, design products, automate workflows, and move from ideation to delivery on a shared canvas.
Private Late · 1000–2000 people
Source and classification
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About the Team The Professional Services organization at Miro is focused on ensuring our Enterprise customers achieve exceptional outcomes through the Innovation Workspace. Our team of strategic advisors, implementation experts, and forward deployed consultants work side-by-side with customers to transform how they collaborate, build, and innovate—powered by agentic AI and Miro's world-class platform. About the Role As a Forward Deployed Consultant, Manufacturing, you will apply AI solutions to transform and automate the core operating processes of leading industrial enterprises. You will engage directly with C-level executives, help them identify high-impact opportunities, build and test enterprise-grade AI solutions on their own data and systems, and drive measurable business outcomes. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and technology. You will be paired
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About the Team The Professional Services organization at Miro is focused on ensuring our Enterprise customers achieve exceptional outcomes through the Innovation Workspace. Our team of strategic advisors, implementation experts, and forward deployed consultants work side-by-side with customers to transform how they collaborate, build, and innovate—powered by agentic AI and Miro's world-class platform. About the Role As a Forward Deployed Consultant, Manufacturing, you will apply AI solutions to transform and automate the core operating processes of leading industrial enterprises. You will engage directly with C-level executives, help them identify high-impact opportunities, build and test enterprise-grade AI solutions on their own data and systems, and drive measurable business outcomes. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and technology. You will be paired with an Account Executive against named accounts—hunting for problems worth solving, then proving they can be solved. Generalist FDCs lead client discussions across industries; as the Manufacturing Specialist, you are the dedicated depth they bring in when a pursuit turns on industrial expertise. What you’ll do Executive Agenda: Partner with senior executives—COO, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Chief Digital Officer, VP Manufacturing, VP Quality—to define an AI transformation agenda Miro can attac [... source excerpt omitted ...] proach, exit criteria, and the partnership proposal that follows success Run the Sprint end to end—immerse, prioritise, build, read out—developing and testing the solution on the customer's real data and systems Take manufacturing processes apart and rebuild them on AI-first principles across five workflows: new product development and gate review, quality and continuous improvement, portfolio and program management, operations and launch readiness, and process development and transformation Build using Miro's AI Workflows, Prototypes, and Goals, Roadmaps & Delivery capabilities, extended through Miro's API, WebSDK, and MCP integrations into ERP, PLM, MES, and quality systems [... source excerpt omitted ...] ndustrial environments Deep understanding of manufacturing operating processes: NPI and stage-gate/APQP, engineering change management, quality systems (FMEA, 8D, PPAP), S&OP and production planning, lean and continuous improvement, maintenance and reliability Fluency with the industrial enterprise stack—ERP (SAP or equivalent), PLM (Teamcenter, Windchill, 3DEXPERIENCE), MES, quality management systems—and where the data lives Credibility with COO, Chief Supply Chain Officer, VP Operations, VP Quality, and Plant General Manager stakeholders Exceptional GenAI skills: Miro, Cursor, Claude Code and Cowork, ChatGPT, Google and Microsoft suites, MCP integrations, prompt and context
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