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Deployment Strategist - Customer Land Team

Cognite - AI for Industry

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Location
Houston, TX
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Job overview

The Deployment Strategist leads new customer implementations from kickoff to measurable value, using Cognite’s Quick Start playbook across the Americas. The role owns scope, schedule, customer experience, and delivery governance while coordinating a technical pod without direct authority. It also builds customer success metrics, reports outcomes and risks to executives, teaches customers how to work with Cognite, and partners with account teams on expansion.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Enterprise Software Implementation, requiredSaaS Implementation, requiredCloud Implementation, requiredData Platform Implementation, requiredExecutive Presence, requiredSteering Committee Leadership, requiredLeadership Without Authority, requiredData Platforms, requiredAPIs, requiredAzure, requiredAWS, requiredOil and Gas, nice to haveManufacturing, nice to haveUtilities, nice to have

Qualifications

7+ Years Implementation Leadership, requiredUp to 80% Travel, required

Benefits

401(k) Match
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

What Cognite is Relentless to Achieve

Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI and data solutions that solve the world’s hardest, highest-impact problems. Our Moonshot is bold: unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works.

Every day looks different. As a Deployment Strategist, here's what you can expect:

  • Lead a customer's first Cognite project from kickoff to proven value, using our Quick Start playbook across the Americas.

  • Agree what success looks like with a customer's operations leaders in week one, then report against it in steering committees and executive briefings.

  • Direct a build pod you don't manage. Architects, builders, and data engineers, some working from Latin America, deliver while you set the problem, scope, and pace.

  • Go where the work happens: customer sites in energy, manufacturing, and utilities, to see how operators use Cognite on shift, not just in a demo.

  • Turn delivery into the next deal: build the expansion case with the Account Executive and carry adoption friction back to Product.

The Ownership You Will Hold

This role goes beyond running a plan. You'll own how a new customer gets from first login to measurable value, working with a technical pod, the account team, and Product.

  • Co-author the value case and success metrics with the Field Engineer and Account Executive before kickoff.

  • Own scope, schedule, and customer experience through the Quick Start, and govern scope change before it reaches the timeline.

  • Translate business requirements into technical priorities for the pod, without line authority over it.

  • Teach new customers how to work with Cognite: operating rhythm, Cognite Data Fusion architecture and administration, and executive cadence.

  • Raise risks and blockers early, with mitigation plans, to customer leadership and Cognite executives.

  • Report time to first value, realised business value, and expansion conversion.

  • Keep Account Executives and Account Managers current on scope, risk, and financial performance.

The Impact You Bring

Must have

  • Delivery track record: 7+ years leading enterprise software, SaaS, cloud, or data platform implementations, judged on customer outcomes.

  • Executive presence: you have run steering committees and held the trust of senior operational leaders.

  • Leadership without authority: you have directed engineers and specialists who did not report to you.

  • Technical fluency: comfortable enough with data platforms, APIs, and cloud (Azure, AWS) to hold your own with engineers. Coding is not required.

  • Built for the field: ready to travel up to 80% to customer sites.

Strong plus

  • Industrial instinct: experience with Oil & Gas, manufacturing, or utilities customers.

Value Delivery is building a strategic team focused on converting customers from land to expand. Join us!

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

  • Competitive compensation

  • 401(k) with employer matching

  • Competitive health, dental, vision & disability coverages for employees and all dependents

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Paid Parental Leave Program

  • Employee Referral Program

Why Cognite

You will work at the forefront of Industrial AI, partnering with some of the world's leading industrial organisations to solve problems that actually matter at scale — not hypothetical ones. You'll join a collaborative, fast-moving environment where curiosity and ownership are the norm, not the exception. If you want delivery work you can point to and be proud of, we'd love to hear from you.

Equal Opportunity

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.

How this job compares

Set against the 779 open Implementation jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Texas median$93–193K/yr20 salary ranges
  • US median$25–64/hr48 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 33 open Implementation jobs in Texas and 779 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Implementation postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (690 postings).
Education
229 of the 779 open Implementation jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 14, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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