[Hiring] Deployment Strategist @Alation

Role Description

As a Deployment Strategist I, you are the person our customers and account teams count on to keep things moving: tracking every open issue, chasing down the answer, and making sure nobody is left wondering what happens next. This role is responsible for driving business value attainment across the Alation customer base.

What You'll Do

• Spend your day in the space between the customer, the account team, Support, and Product.
• Keep evaluations moving.
• Partner with your Account Executives and Deployment Strategists to hold momentum through the sales cycle.
• Track every open technical question, blocker, and requirement across active opportunities: feature questions, enablement needs, environment issues, security and architecture follow-ups, and drive each one to a clear answer before it stalls the deal.
• Keep everyone informed.
• Send the update before it's asked for. Customers and account teams should always know the status, next step, and task owner.
• Support your peers.
• Work with the account team on RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs.
• Close the loop with Product.
• Translate customer requirements into clear, evidence-backed feedback for Product and Engineering.
• Show customers the way.
• Walk users through features, run focused solution demos, and answer the "can Alation do this?" question with a working example.
• Make the knowledge reusable.
• Contribute what you learn to our knowledge base and to the Alation Community, so the next person doesn't start from zero.

Qualifications

• Follow-through you can point to.
• A history of owning a messy, multi-party problem and staying on it until it was resolved — in any setting: work, internship, research, volunteering, a side project.
• Clear writing and sharp presentation skills.
• Comfort in front of people.
• Organization at volume.
• Knowledge about data and AI space.
• Some exposure to AI, databases, analytics, data integration, or cloud platforms; coursework, certifications, internships, and self-teaching all count.
• Technical Knowledge: 1–3 years in a technical, customer-facing role (support, consulting, analytics, IT, solutions).
• Technical Stack: Any of the following: RDBMS, Lakehouses, BI, SQL, REST APIs, AI.
• Exposure to data governance, data space, and/or AI.
• Curiosity and creativity.

Requirements

• Occasional travel within your sales territory to customer sites and marketing events. Expect this to grow as you take on workshops and proof-of-value work.
• Who you'll work with: Account Executives, Customer Solutions Team, Technical Support, Product, and Engineering.

Benefits

• Compensation Pay Range: $68,443.00 - $92,398.00.
• On-target-earning (OTE) is specific to the US and is ~$93,000 - $125,000.
• The salary of the final candidate selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to internal equity, experience, education, work location, specialty and training.

Company Description

Alation is pioneering the next era of data intelligence — powered by AI agents and trusted data. Organizations around the world rely on Alation to drive self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI innovation. Our technology helps enterprises connect people and data to make faster, smarter, and more confident decisions. With more than $340M in funding – valued at over $1.7 billion and more than 650 customers, including 40% of the Fortune 100.

As data becomes the foundation of every business, Alation is leading the way in helping organizations unlock their full potential. By bringing intelligence, automation, and trust to every interaction, we empower customers to scale data-driven innovation with confidence and speed.

Joining Alation means being part of a winning team shaping the future of AI-powered data intelligence. We move fast, think big, and deliver results together.