Strategy
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.
About the job
Global AI Strategy & Solutions defines how DEPT®’s clients respond as AI agents become the primary layer between customers and brands. The Future of the Customer Journey (FCJ) is the team’s flagship offer: it maps how AI systems intermediate customer journeys, diagnoses where a brand’s product reality diverges from what AI systems say about it, and directs investment accordingly. Growth and strategy teams across markets are selling and delivering it now.
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you are an embedded builder inside that motion. You will sit with growth and strategy teams, understand the problem in front of them, and answer with working software rather than documentation. You will convert FCJ methodology into agentic components, prototypes, and internal tools, and integrate with infrastructure that lets new prototypes appear in days. When needed, you will work across global client projects on a partially billable basis, making sure the firm-wide strategy is captured and implemented properly rather than reinvented market by market. As components mature, you