Elise AI Strategy and Operations Associate/Sr Associate at EliseAI focusing on scaling deployment functions for future AI platform products. Owns core deployment processes and drives cross-functional change.
Responsibilities
As a Strategy and Operations, Future Platforms Associate/Sr Associate on the Future Platforms team, you’ll help found and scale a critical new function at EliseAI: taking our future platform products from early customer promise to live, adopted, business-impacting deployments. This is a strategy role sitting inside a deployment function. You'll own how our deployment motion works and scales with our platform.
You'll take ownership of a core piece of that motion and go deep: diagnosing where it breaks today, designing how it should work, and driving the change across Product, Engineering, Partnerships, and Delivery until it holds at scale. You'll also carry one or two engagements yourself, so you experience the problems you are trying to fix.
You'll partner closely with senior leadership, but you'll own outcomes. This role is ideal for someone who wants to operate like a founder: comfortable with ambiguity, energized by turning a messy, undocumented process into a system that scales, and willing to do whatever it takes to make it real.
Own core pieces of the deployment motion: Take a defined slice, such as scoping methodology, migration readiness, or the product requirements pipeline, and take it to the next level: sharpen the standards, close the gaps that surface at volume, and put real measurement behind it
Diagnose where the motion breaks: Use engagement data, retrospectives, and direct observation to find what actually drives deployment timeline, cost, and quality, and prioritize accordingly
Plan for the next order of magnitude: Model what the function needs at several times today's volume, identify the constraints that break first, and make the case for building ahead of them
Design and drive execution: Define priorities, timelines, and success metrics, then push changes through Product and delivery teams until they stick
Carry one or two engagements: Stay close enough to the customer-facing reality to pressure-test what you're building, and to keep your recommendations credible with the people running deployments full time
Shape the product roadmap: Turn patterns across engagements into prioritized requirements with Product and Engineering, grounded in what deployments actually surface
Build the team: Help hire, onboard, and ramp the people running engagements, and codify what good looks like
Move at rocket speed, build something massive.
We’re scaling fast, solving real client problems with precision and ambition. Here, you own your impact; full autonomy, no micromanagement, no fluff.
Qualification
We’re looking for intensely drivenStrong technical intuitionGrowth and impact
Required
We’re looking for intensely driven, founder-minded leaders who want to test themselves and build something transformational. You likely have:
2 - 4 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, product management, and/or founder/operator roles at high-growth startups
Strong analytical skills with the ability to make data-driven decisions
A track record of designing and standing up processes or systems that kept working after you moved on
Strong technical intuition, demonstrated by STEM degree or equivalent technical background
Proven ability to take ownership and operate autonomously with strong judgement in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
Proven ability to independently manage complex projects end-to-end in a client facing setting
Excellent communication and ability to naturally build strong relationships and influence across internal and external stakeholders
Willingness to travel ~1x per month for ~3 days
Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week
Growth and impact. It’s not often that you can get in on the ground floor of a funded (unicorn!) startup that’s scaling so fast. That means that instead of following a playbook, you’ll be writing it. Every single day you will be challenged to identify how we can scale and execute on it. You’ll learn what works when you succeed and what doesn’t when you fail. Either way, the rest of the team will be here to support you.
