> 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. # Founding Deployment Strategist Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/df799178f20b4477 Arch posts a FDE role to plan what the customer deploys first in San Francisco, CA with no pay posted. Map decision-makers, influencers, and blockers across customer rollups. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Arch](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/arch) Posted Jul 12, 2026 by Arch · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA Hybrid, 3 days a week in office Full-time Map decision-makers, influencers, and blockers across customer rollups. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fdf799178f20b4477&placement=top) - [View posting at Arch](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Arch/2a028deb-0eac-439b-9921-7f0a5cec42c4/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 Not posted 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**: No coding - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **2+ years** MBB or private equity value creation experience ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 2+ 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. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid, 3 days a week in office - **Remote work restrictions**: In person 3 days a week in the Bay Area - **Employment type**: Full-time ## More like this [Thomson Reuters](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thomson-reuters) ### [Senior Solutions Manager, Tax & Audit AI FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6acafc2ec22e682f) Frisco, TX · New York, NY · +7 more Hybrid 7w ago $100,100–$214,100 [Freehand](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/freehand) ### [AI Deployment Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/90963fefc9f8ed32) San Francisco, CA 3mo ago $130,000–$180,000 [Watney](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/watney) ### [Deployment Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4ced2a66478d8332) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago Pay not posted ## The job description from Arch Posted by Arch on Jul 12, 2026 ### Founding Deployment Strategist ### Bay Area · In person 3 days a week · Reports to the CEO · Starting September 1 AI has reached software. It has not reached the physical economy. Home services is where that changes. Private equity is rolling up HVAC, plumbing, and electrical faster than almost any industry in America. Serious capital, serious operators, and almost no idea how to grow the customers they already have. It may be the largest untouched operating lever in the economy. Arch is built to pull it. We read the operator's data, decide the move, and then run it ourselves across email, SMS, OTT, and direct mail. Not a dashboard that tells someone what to do. The thing that does it. Until recently that was not possible. What software cannot do is walk into a nine-brand rollup, work out who actually decides, find the general manager who has been quietly right for two years, and turn that into something a CMO will act on. That takes a person. We do not have one yet. If you have spent three years diagnosing problems that other people were supposed to fix, this is the same job with the execution attached. ### Who we are Small team in San Francisco. Backed by Coatue, Mike Schroepfer, Floodgate, Gigascale, ReGen Ventures, MCJ Collective, and the founders of Aurora Solar. Founded by Philipp Krinner (Stanford GSB, ex-McKinsey) and Sacha Schmitz (serial founder, ex-YC). We work with Flint Group, Legacy Service Partners, and ResiXperts. Home services is the beachhead, not the destination. ### The job Deployment Strategist in the Palantir sense. The strategist, not the engineer. You are the first hire whose work begins the day the contract is signed. No customer success team. No playbook. You work directly with the CEO. Week one on an account, you are not onboarding. You are mapping. Who decides, who blocks, who has been waiting for someone to ask. You bring them benchmarks almost nobody in this industry has. You pull the data and find the thing nobody named. You launch. Six weeks later you show the CMO a holdout test that proves what Arch added. By the time the conversation reaches the other eight brands, it is not a pitch. ### What you will own - **The map.** Who decides, who influences, who blocks. Rollups are political. That is the terrain, not a nuisance. - **The diagnosis.** The stated problem is rarely the real one. Pull the thread until something surprises them. - **The proof.** Holdouts, incrementality, ROI. You build the model and you present it yourself. - **The growth.** You carry a retention and expansion number. Do the first three well and this mostly takes care of itself. - **The playbook.** Write it down, so the next fifty accounts do not need you in the room. ### You - 2 to 4 years at MBB or in PE value creation, promoted at least once - You have been on the hook when a number had to move, not just recommended that it should - You can walk into a business you have never seen and know within two weeks who really runs it - You ask the question everyone else was too polite to ask - You would rather own one hard outcome than advise on ten - Bonus: home services, field services, or anywhere a sponsor watches the EBITDA line ### The details Interviews start in August Competitive cash and equity comp. Platinum health benefits. Home services is where we start. The person who works out how to create value here is the obvious person to go run the next vertical. You are the first. What you build becomes the playbook for everyone who follows. 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