> 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/e026ec3d5884a44d Serval posts a FDE role to plan what the customer deploys first in San Francisco, CA, at $150,000–$280,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Serves as the primary technical partner and AI advisor for customer deployments, owning engagements from pilot through production while building workflows, integrations, and product changes. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Serval](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/serval) Posted Feb 4, 2026 by Serval · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$150,000–$280,000** + equity San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time Serves as the primary technical partner and AI advisor for customer deployments, owning engagements from pilot through production while building workflows, integrations, and product changes. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fe026ec3d5884a44d&placement=top) - [View posting at Serval](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Serval/565c665a-c632-448b-87c5-849bc095de05/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–$280K Above the median Midpoint $215K · median $190K This job $150K to $280K. 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 building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** relevant role (product, engineering, consulting, or founder) Background - **Software engineering** - **Consulting** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 3+ 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. 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[What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [Varick-Agents](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/varick-agents) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/daf5d9e5addbf396) San Francisco, CA On-site 13d ago $175,000–$250,000 [TikTok](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tiktok) ### [AI Deployment Strategist — Ads Vertical - Global Monetization Product and Technology](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0d1cedb76bc66115) San Jose, CA New · 6d ago $159,000–$272,000 [Lightfield](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/lightfield) ### [Deployment Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/99e691095b205253) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 2w ago $170,000–$250,000 - [Other jobs at Serval (4)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/serval) ## The job description from Serval Posted by Serval on Feb 4, 2026 ### Who We Are Serval is the AI-native enterprise service management platform that automates the work legacy IT service management tools only track. Our AI agents build the automations that power employee support, then resolve requests against them instantly—helping teams across IT, HR, finance, legal, and beyond automate work within one governed platform. Companies including Fox, Live Nation, Notion, Ramp, and Lucid Motors run on Serval. Headquartered in San Francisco, we’ve raised $277 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, First Round, General Catalyst, and Elad Gil, most recently a $150 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation. We’re building a team that moves quickly, takes ownership, and wants to make a meaningful impact on how the world’s largest organizations work. Come help us build what’s next for enterprise service management. ### About the team The **Agent Deployment** team is a customer-facing technical team, central to how Serval turns product capability into real business outcomes. The org is a family of roles: Deployment Strategists are the primary technical relationship and AI advisor for each customer, partnering with Deployed Software Engineers to build enterprise-grade features and products. Deployment Success Managers own each customer's long-term success, building the systems and motions that scale adoption, expansion, and renewal well past go-live. ### Role Overview As a Deployment Strategist on Serval's Agent Deployment team, you’ll be the primary technical relationship for Serval’s customers: guiding their deployments, advising their AI strategy, and owning their outcomes. You’ll work deeply within Serval’s existing product surface area: building novel workflows, configuring integrations, and shipping bug fixes and product changes yourself. This role is for someone who thrives on execution velocity, moving quickly across multiple engagements at once. You’re at home in ambiguity and bring a strong blend of technical depth, product sense, and customer obsession. And because you sit closest to how customers actually use Serval, you'll directly shape our product roadmap: the workflows and features you build in the field make their way into the core product. ### What You’ll Do - **Own customer engagements from pilot through production launch: **design and deliver deployments that fit each customer's workflows and scale adoption of Serval. - **Build AI agents:** design and build AI agents on Serval's platform that drive real value for customers. - **Advise AI strategy:** embed with customers to guide and shape how they adopt and scale AI. - **Lead migrations:** design and execute migration plans that minimize disruption and ensure seamless adoption of Serval's platform. - **Partner cross-functionally:** work with Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to turn field learnings into repeatable processes and a sharper go-to-market. ### What You’ll Need - Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience. - 3+ years in a relevant role (product, engineering, consulting, founder). - Strong communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Hands-on technical ability: reading and troubleshooting production code in customer-facing environments, analyzing code paths, database state, and API requests/responses with infra and browser dev tools. - Working knowledge of APIs and REST, IAM, and SQL for data analysis. ### Nice to Have - Experience in an early-stage startup environment. - Experience writing production code. - Background working with enterprise customers or complex technical sales cycles. - Familiarity with IT, security, service management, or workflow automation. ### What We Offer - **Impact**: Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company. - **Growth**: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering with the support of our experienced team and investors. Grow rapidly with the company. - **Culture**: Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun. [View posting at Serval](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Serval/565c665a-c632-448b-87c5-849bc095de05/application) ## About Serval AI-native ITSM platform for enterprises that automates help desk, access, onboarding, and workflows through auditable agents that build and run automations. 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