FDE01
Forward Deployed Engineer
owns the build.
Builds inside the customer's environment, against real-world constraints, and makes the technology work in production, not in a demo.
DS02
Deployment Strategist
owns the problem.
Embeds on-site with the customer and drives from AI ambition to production impact, scoping the problem and designing the operating model that gets there in weeks.
FOUNDING03
Founding Team
builds from zero.
Technical co-founders and first hires for companies that are only just forming: silicon and systems architects, inference engineers, the first people in the room.
GTM04
Go-to-Market
opens the market.
Founding sellers, growth operators and vertical leads who take an AI product from its first design partners to a repeatable motion.
PARTNER05
Founding Partner
brings the practice.
Senior professionals who leave established firms to co-found AI-native ones. Lawyers today, other professions next.
NEXT06
The next role_
not named yet.
Every wave of AI creates roles that don't exist yet. When the next one arrives, we'll already be searching for the people who can fill it.