Deployment Strategist | AI & Life Sciences

Why Apply?

Help customers turn AI technology into practical improvements across complex scientific workflows.

This opportunity combines customer engagement, technical problem-solving and commercial judgement. Working closely with founders, scientists and engineers, you’ll guide deployments from agreed objectives through to measurable value, helping successful projects grow into long-term partnerships.

You’ll have meaningful ownership and the opportunity to shape how a growing technology business delivers for its customers.

About the Company

Our client is an applied AI company developing technology to improve workflows across life sciences and drug development.

Its approach brings together scientific expertise and AI engineering to address practical challenges in regulated environments. As customer activity grows, the business is looking for someone who can connect delivery progress with customer priorities, ensuring implementations demonstrate value and support wider adoption.

The Role

As Deployment Strategist, you’ll oversee multiple customer engagements, working alongside Scientific Product Specialists, engineers and founders.

You’ll get close to customer problems, establish what success looks like and keep delivery focused on those outcomes. The role requires enough scientific and technical understanding to assess progress and challenge assumptions, alongside the relationship skills to manage expectations and the commercial awareness to recognise opportunities for expansion.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Understand customer priorities and translate them into clear deployment objectives and proof-of-concept success criteria.
• Coordinate multiple engagements, maintaining a clear view of progress, risks, priorities and next steps.
• Work with scientific and engineering colleagues to keep delivery aligned with customer workflows and agreed outcomes.
• Identify issues early and lead constructive conversations with customers and internal teams to resolve them.
• Help customers assess and communicate the value delivered through the platform.
• Support the transition from successful proofs of concept into ongoing commercial relationships.
• Identify additional customer needs and help scope opportunities for broader adoption.
• Keep founders and delivery teams aligned on customer expectations, feedback and commercial opportunities.

About You

You have experience managing customer-facing technology deployments, implementations or complex technical projects. Your background could include deployment strategy, technical consulting or implementation delivery.

You can understand unfamiliar scientific and technical workflows, ask thoughtful questions and challenge progress constructively. You’re comfortable building relationships with different stakeholders, handling difficult conversations and balancing competing priorities.

You also bring commercial judgement: you understand how successful delivery builds customer confidence and can recognise where further adoption would create value.

This will suit someone adaptable, proactive and hands-on, who enjoys taking ownership in a growing business. Life sciences or regulated industry experience would be valuable.

Benefits

• Direct collaboration with founders, scientific specialists and engineers.
• Ownership of customer engagements with visible commercial impact.
• Exposure to practical applications of AI in life sciences.
• The opportunity to help shape deployment practices as the business grows.

About Your Recruiter

Aspire Life Sciences, part of Aspire Recruitment Group, specialises in connecting innovative life sciences and technology businesses with specialist talent.

We are managing this search confidentially. To learn more, apply or contact James Trott for a confidential discussion.