Founding Deployment Strategist
CleraIndustrial Electrification company
Munich, GermanyLead
Operations & Strategy
About the role
TL;DR
Lead European expansion for an AI startup, focusing on enterprise AI agent deployment and customer success.
- •A fast-growing, Y Combinator–backed enterprise AI startup (Seed stage) is hiring a Founding Deployment Strategist to lead its European expansion from Munich.
- •This is a rare founding-team-level role that sits at the intersection of hands-on AI agent development, high-touch enterprise customer success, and team building.
- •You will work directly with the CEO to turn large enterprises into AI-native organizations
- •diagnosing opportunities, building and scaling AI agents, navigating executive stakeholders, and ultimately shaping the European team as the company grows.
- •The company's platform is an agentic operating system for enterprises, enabling business users to build, orchestrate, and govern AI agents across complex workflows
- •no engineering expertise required.
- •This role is on-site in Munich.
- •Native-level German is required.
- •Visa sponsorship is not available.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the European rollout end-to-end, partnering directly with the CEO on strategy and execution.
- •Diagnose high-leverage AI opportunities within enterprise customers and prioritize the highest-value use cases.
- •Build initial AI agents and workflows to demonstrate value quickly, then systematically scale adoption organization-wide.
- •Navigate complex internal enterprise politics
- •identify champions, remove blockers, and build trusted relationships at all levels.
- •Hire, mentor, and shape the European team as the business scales.
- •Requirements Deep, hands-on experience shipping AI agents, workflows, or production ML/AI features in enterprise settings.
- •Strong understanding of model selection, routing, evaluation design, data residency, and integration architecture for enterprise AI deployments.
- •Demonstrated ability to drive adoption within large, complex organizations and manage renewals and expansion.
- •Native-level German proficiency and based in Munich (or fully committed to relocating).
- •High ownership, high agency, low ego
- •a bias for action and rapid prioritization.
Required skills
PythonOpenAI APILangChainBusiness DevelopmentCustomer SuccessProduct Management
Nice-to-have skills
Enterprise SalesProduct Marketing
Domain expertise
aiproductivityconsulting
Benefits & perks
Equity participation
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsReactAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLinuxOpenAI APILangChain