Katalyze AI is a fast-growing AI-driven biotech platform company on a mission to make life-saving drugs accessible and affordable for everyone. Our AI Agents help pharmaceutical and biotech companies increase production efficiency, reduce costs, and minimize waste. We're a team of humble, fast-moving, and curious craftspeople working at the intersection of science and AI.
We're looking for a Senior Deployment Strategist (the equivalent of an Engagement Manager at firms like Palantir) to lead how our platform gets deployed and adopted within our most strategic pharma and biotech clients. This is not a traditional account management or sales role — it's a mission-critical position that sits at the intersection of strategic consulting, technical implementation, and enterprise relationship management.
You'll own the full arc of client engagements: from discovery and solution design to hands-on deployment and long-term value expansion. You'll be embedded deeply with clients — understanding their manufacturing challenges, shaping how Katalyze AI's capabilities are applied, and driving transformational outcomes. When a client achieves a yield uplift or eliminates a batch failure, that's your work made real.
This role is ideal for someone who has thrived in a deployment, implementation, or engagement management role at a tech-forward company or top-tier consultancy, and who wants to work at the frontier of AI in life sciences.
Lead end-to-end client engagements — from initial discovery and scoping through deployment, adoption, and expansion
Develop deployment strategies tailored to each client's manufacturing environment, data landscape, and regulatory context
Act as the primary strategic point of contact for senior client stakeholders, including Operations, Quality, and C-suite leaders
Translate complex client problems into concrete use cases and platform configurations, in close partnership with our ML Scientists and Platform Engineers
Drive change management and user adoption to ensure our platform becomes embedded in clients' core workflows
Identify and develop expansion opportunities, building long-term roadmaps that grow both client impact and Katalyze AI's footprint
Track and communicate ROI — yield improvements, cost savings, deviation reductions — as a core part of every engagement
Partner with the commercial team to support new business development, leveraging deployment successes as proof points
Contribute to internal playbooks and best practices, helping scale how Katalyze AI runs world-class deployments
4–8 years of experience in deployment strategy, implementation, management consulting, or a hybrid client-facing technical role
Demonstrated track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deployments or consulting engagements
Strong strategic thinking — you can zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to drive execution
Excellent communication and presentation skills; you can engage credibly with scientists, engineers, and executives alike
Comfort with ambiguity and fast-moving environments — you build structure where none exists
Technical literacy: you don't need to write code, but you understand data systems, APIs, and how software gets adopted inside large organizations
A genuine interest in life sciences, biopharma, or AI-driven transformation
Experience in pharma, biotech, or life sciences environments (especially manufacturing or quality)
Familiarity with GxP frameworks, regulated manufacturing, or compliance-heavy industries
Prior experience at a company known for high-intensity deployments (Palantir, C3.ai, Veeva, McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, etc.)
MBA or advanced degree in science, engineering, or business
Experience with change management methodologies
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