> 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. # Forward Deployed Strategist - R01572124 Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e4eb407d9811f40e Brillio posts a FDE role to plan what the customer deploys first in Minneapolis, MN and 3 more with no pay posted. Embeds in complex business domains to identify high-value problems and lead cross-functional teams from discovery through implementation, adoption, and measurable value realization. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Brillio](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/brillio) Posted Oct 1, 2026 by Brillio · open on Lever as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted Minneapolis, MN +3 Remote Embeds in complex business domains to identify high-value problems and lead cross-functional teams from discovery through implementation, adoption, and measurable value realization. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fe4eb407d9811f40e&placement=top) - [View posting at Brillio](https://jobs.lever.co/brillio-2/f18f78a5-9eab-4c09-b98b-f27a097af08a/apply) 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 **Mostly pre-sales or support** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **10+ years** Relevant experience in strategy, consulting, healthcare transformation, product or capability strategy, operations leadership, technology strategy, or a related field Background - **Consulting** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 10+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The work is remote from the US. Can you work from the US? 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[What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: Minneapolis, MN · Chicago, IL · Dallas, TX · New York, NY - **Work arrangement**: Remote ## More like this [Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce) ### [Deployment Strategist (Mid/Senior Levels)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/233c182f95f3a859) San Francisco, CA · Bellevue, WA · +8 more Remote 4mo ago $134,750–$316,750 [Flume Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/flume-health) ### [Forward Deployed Program Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6a82a94ae5b4741f) New York, NY Remote 2mo ago $130,000–$160,000 [Recidiviz](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/recidiviz) ### [Deployment Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a089a7ddeace423a) New York, NY · Oakland, CA Remote 11d ago $99,750–$117,600 - [Other jobs at Brillio (3)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/brillio) ## The job description from Brillio Posted by Brillio on Oct 1, 2026 ### About the Role Brillio is seeking an experienced business transformation and product leader to serve as a Forward Deployed Strategist. In this role, you will embed directly within a complex business domain, rapidly understand how the operation works, identify high-value problems, and lead cross-functional teams from problem definition through implementation, adoption, and measurable value realization.The FDS operates at the intersection of business strategy, process design, product, technology, data, organizational change, and executive decision-making. This is not a traditional advisory role that concludes with a recommendation, nor is it a project coordination role centered on schedules and status reporting. You will stay with the problem, shape the future state, work directly with solution builders, drive decisions and adoption, and use evidence to determine whether a solution should scale, change, transfer, pause, or stop. **Preferred Locations:** Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas, NYC Job Responsibilities ### Responsibilities - Understand business models, workflows, user needs, constraints, and pain points to identify and define the underlying business problem. - Identify opportunities to simplify, redesign, automate, or improve workflows and business processes. - Translate ambiguous business challenges into clear problem statements, solution concepts, priorities, and actionable plans. - Define desired outcomes, scope, success metrics, and roadmaps aligned with customer needs and business objectives. - Evaluate and apply AI, automation, and emerging technologies to deliver measurable business value. - Lead cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, data, architecture, operations, compliance, finance, and business teams. - Drive execution by managing priorities, dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and key decisions throughout delivery. - Partner with technical teams to address data, integrations, governance, security, scalability, cost, and production requirements. - Guide the transition from solution design and development through deployment, adoption, and integration into business operations. - Engage stakeholders and end users to gather feedback, improve workflows, and drive organizational change and sustained adoption. - Establish ownership, operating processes, and performance measures to ensure solutions deliver lasting value. - Track KPIs, business impact, costs, and outcomes post-deployment to identify opportunities for improvement. - Communicate results, risks, and lessons learned, making evidence-based recommendations to scale, refine, pause, or discontinue initiatives. - Maintain end-to-end accountability from initial discovery through delivery, adoption, and measurable business outcomes. ### Required Qualifications - Typically 10+ years of relevant experience in strategy, consulting, healthcare transformation, product or capability strategy, operations leadership, technology strategy, or a related field. - Demonstrated ownership of complex, cross-functional change from problem definition through implementation, adoption, and measurable results. - Proven ability to learn a complex operating model quickly, synthesize input from frontline experts, and build sufficient domain depth to make sound decisions. - Experience shaping products, capabilities, workflows, processes, or operating-model changes using user needs, outcomes, roadmaps, priorities, and tradeoffs. - Strong business judgment, including the ability to assess value, feasibility, risk, strategic fit, and investment choices when information is incomplete. - Executive-level written and verbal communication, facilitation, storytelling, and stakeholder influence without direct authority. - Technical fluency across AI, automation, data, software delivery, integration, and enterprise technology, sufficient to work directly with engineering teams and challenge assumptions. - Experience establishing business cases, baselines, success measures, and value-realization plans. - Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, move from analysis to action, and maintain personal accountability for outcomes. ### Preferred Qualifications - Experience in healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, health services, insurance, regulated operations, or another complex enterprise environment. - Background in management consulting, product leadership, digital transformation, enterprise operations, or technology-enabled business transformation. - Hands-on experience shaping AI-enabled or data-driven products and workflows, with appropriate consideration for governance, risk, and operating controls. - Experience working in multidisciplinary pods or product teams spanning business, engineering, data, architecture, operations, and subject-matter experts. - Experience leading proofs of value, pilots, MVPs, or capability launches and using evidence to make scale-or-stop decisions. [View posting at Brillio](https://jobs.lever.co/brillio-2/f18f78a5-9eab-4c09-b98b-f27a097af08a/apply) ## About Brillio Digital technology consulting and services provider using AI accelerators and global engineering teams to deliver enterprise transformation. 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