Deployment Strategist embeds with US government customers to translate their operational challenges into data-driven solutions using Palantir's platform. The role blends deep customer immersion, product expertise, and analytical problem-solving to design and scale deployments across defense, manufacturing, healthcare, and humanitarian sectors. Unlike typical FDE positions, this emphasizes strategic synthesis and user empathy over hands-on engineering.
Role DNA
25% hands-on building75% customer-facing
Mostly customer-facing, with some hands-on building. Derived from how this posting weighs coding against customer work, the same measure behind the listing filters.
How this pays
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data analysisproduct thinkingcustomer empathyproblem synthesisworkflow analysisPalantir platform
Role description
A World-Changing Company
Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
The Role
At its core, the Deployment Strategist role centers around leveraging data in operational and real-world action. Our customers come to us with a hunch that the only way to protect their troops, manufacture high-quality products, structure effective healthcare policies, or deliver aid to refugees safely is to make better use of their data. Deployment Strategists are responsible for turning that hunch into reality.
If you believe in the transformational power of data and technology and in your own ability to bring that power to bear against complex problems, we want to meet you.
What We Do
As a Deployment Strategist, you'll work as part of a driven and creative team of Engineers, Product Designers, and other Deployment Strategists to deploy software against the most challenging problems our world faces. Your mission is to synthesize disconnected streams of thought into a cohesive understanding of what the most important problem is, what the data means, what the product needs, what users are motivated by, and where the impact could be.
Deployment Strategists are do-ers who immerse themselves in our customers' most intricate workflows, partner with customer teams and explore the data, and dive into the product landscape to enable us to scale. A select number of Deployments Strategists may also be deployed to Palantir internal teams and problems. In this role, the problems you'll tackle will require a curious and analytical mindset, a sharp intuition for product, and a strong degree of user empathy to ultimately empower our customers to make better decisions.