> 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.

# FDE salary for planning what the customer deploys first

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/deployment-strategy

Median salary $185,000 a year across 226 jobs. See what FDE postings that plan what the customer deploys first pay, and what that kind of work covers.

**324** postings · **200** companies · 226 state pay: median **$185,000**, half $158,000–$216,000

Postings read on November 6, 2026

Published September 21, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026

[OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai)

### [Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - Platform](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d9231e5d0ab9372b)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 2w ago

$207,000–$294,000

[Chalk](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/chalk)

### [Forward Deployed Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ccc6b4b3ef2cc865)

New York, NY On-site 1mo ago

$180,000–$250,000

[Eudia](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/eudia)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer - Eudia for Government](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/16a20fbf5fdf4a3f)

Washington, DC Remote 3mo ago

$160,000–$200,000

[Galaxy Digital](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/galaxy-digital)

### [VP, Forward Deployed Lead](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/660fd85f8bf5ebbb)

New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago

$215,000–$285,000

[OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai)

### [Deployment Lead, FDE - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8b6529416243e8a5)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 4w ago

$230,000–$294,000

[Chalk](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/chalk)

### [Forward Deployed Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b4e356b364ebc5fc)

San Francisco, CA On-site 1mo ago

$180,000–$250,000

[OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai)

### [Deployment Lead, FDE- NYC](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e0edcda2c3365d2e)

New York, NY Hybrid 6w ago

$230,000–$294,000

[Doss](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/doss)

### [Forward Deployed Product Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d3d88f6a394e10a0)

US Remote New · Today

$120,000–$210,000

[Method Financial](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/method-financial)

### [Forward Deployed Product Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c7fbc8558816e0da)

New York, NY · Austin, TX · +2 more Hybrid New · 3d ago

$180,000–$220,000

[Thomson Reuters](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thomson-reuters)

### [Senior Tax & Audit AI Engineer, FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6d5f1dea82405965)

Brooklyn, NY · Frisco, TX · +3 more Hybrid New · 4d ago

$102,200–$218,600

[Hebbia](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/hebbia)

### [Forward Deployed Product Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5281f28199211273)

New York, NY On-site 7d ago

$180,000–$320,000

[Sia](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sia)

### [Consultant / Senior Consultant - Forward-Deployed Business Analyst (Financial Services)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/902d89236ae62ee4)

Charlotte, NC · New York, NY · +5 more Hybrid 7d ago

$80,000–$116,000

All 324 plan what the customer deploys first.

[Browse all matching jobs with salary information →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1&role=strategist)

See what FDE postings that plan what the customer deploys first pay, and what that kind of work covers.

These postings decide what a customer rolls out first and how they adopt it: discovery, architecture, migration planning, proof of concept, and coordination across customer and product teams. Employers often call the job Deployment Strategist. Day-to-day implementation is not the main responsibility.

Employer postings · Calculated from posted salary amounts · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)

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