About the role
We are looking for a Senior Strategic Deployment Manager with 4–8 years of experience to help build Retell AI's deployment function from the ground up. This is a high-ownership IC role at one of the fastest-growing voice AI companies in the world — you'll work directly with enterprise and scaled customers to identify where AI can drive the most impact and lead those opportunities all the way to production. If you thrive in ambiguity, love working with senior stakeholders, and want to shape a function that doesn't have a playbook yet, this is your role.
What will you be doing?
- Partner with enterprise and scaled customers to scope AI opportunities, build business cases, and define ROI-driven roadmaps
- Lead strategic customer engagements end-to-end — from discovery through deployment and expansion
- Work in pods alongside Forward Deployed Engineers to push deployments across the finish line
- Interface directly with C-suite stakeholders at customer organizations as a trusted advisor
- Help build the deployment playbook from scratch — processes, frameworks, and best practices don't exist yet
Key Requirements
- Background in MBB or Big 4 consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain preferred; Deloitte, PwC, Accenture acceptable) at senior analyst level or above
- Executive-level communication skills — must be able to credibly hold conversations with and present to C-suite stakeholders
- Ability to build business cases and ROI models; strong structured problem-solving and product thinking (0-to-1)
- Comfortable with high ambiguity and building a new function without an existing playbook
- Located in or willing to relocate to SF Bay Area or NYC (on-site, 5 days/week) and comfortable with up to 50% travel
About Retell AI
Retell AI is using first principles to reimagine the call center with cutting-edge voice AI.
Thousands of companies now utilize Retell’s AI voice agents to handle sales, support, and logistics calls that once required large teams of human agents. Backed by Y Combinator, Alt Capital, and other leading investors, we have scaled to $80M ARR with a team of 40 people, up from $5M at the start of 2025.
Our vision for 2026 is to build a modern CX platform where entire contact centers are powered by AI. Instead of basic automation that needs constant human tuning, we’re creating intelligent AI “workers” that can act as frontline agents, QA analysts, and managers, continuously executing, monitoring, and improving customer interactions.
We’re growing quickly and looking for ambitious builders who want to tackle hard technical problems, move fast, and have real impact at one of the fastest-growing voice AI startups.
Let’s build the future together.
- We’re a top 50 AI app in a16z list: https://tinyurl.com/5853dt2x
- #4 on Brex's Fast-Growing Software Vendors of 2025: https://www.brex.com/journal/brex-benchmark-december-2025
- We're also one of the top ranking startups on: https://leanaileaderboard.com/
- Enterprise tech 30: https://www.wing.vc/et30/overview
Required skills
Other roles at Retell AI
Job details
Salary
$170,000 - $260,000
Location
Redwood City, New York
Experience
4+ years
Funding
Total raised
$5.1M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
