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# Deployment Strategist at Swayable

- **Company:** Swayable
- **Location:** New York NY OR San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/swayable/jobs/5264610007

## Job description

Location: The client success team is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and San Francisco, and the team is in-office 3x a week

Swayable is a fast-growing AI and automated data science platform that measures public opinion, and the impact of messages and advertising content on it. We are a 50-person team backed by top technology and social impact investors, including Y Combinator. Founded in 2018 by physics PhDs, it is led by the former Executive Director for Digital Strategy at the New York Times. Clients include major consumer-facing brands (JP Morgan Chase, Airbnb, Paramount Pictures), technology companies (Anthropic, Meta, Amazon), academic researchers (MIT, Yale, Stanford) and mission-aligned civic advocacy campaigns (e.g. on climate, human rights and elections). Check our our values & culture deck to learn more: https://tinyurl.com/4zjchwzs

Joining Swayable means being on a team whose work changes the course of history. The technology we develop is at the leading edge of transforming some of the world’s most important campaign organizations and enterprises: combatting disinformation, protecting democracy, and supporting the sustainable growth of consumer-facing brands.

About the role:

Swayable is looking for a Deployment Strategist to help enterprise clients turn research into stronger messaging, creative, and marketing decisions. You’ll serve as a strategic advisor to leading brands and agencies, developing pre-testing programs, guiding adoption, and partnering with sales to drive renewals and expansion.

You’ll join our Client & Research Success team, which owns client relationships and connects client needs with product development. We’re a collaborative team that invests in professional growth through regular feedback, shared goals, and hands-on support from one another.

What You’ll Do:

- Own relationships with a portfolio of enterprise clients, building trust with brand, marketing, and insights teams through strategic guidance and regular engagement.
- Develop strategic pre-testing programs that connect Swayable’s capabilities to each client’s business goals, creative process, and key marketing decisions.
- Guide clients through research design, test execution, and results interpretation—turning findings into clear recommendations for stronger messaging and creative.
- Help clients get more value from Swayable by identifying new use cases, recommending relevant capabilities, and translating client needs into actionable product feedback.
- Partner with sales on pitches, bringing brand and research expertise to demonstrate how Swayable can address a prospective client’s specific challenges.
- Drive adoption and ongoing usage by making Swayable a core part of clients’ decision-making processes and demonstrating the impact of their testing programs.
- Collaborate with sales on renewals and expansion, identifying growth opportunities and building a clear case for continued investment across your client portfolio.

Who You Are:

- 2+ years of client-facing experience in research, consumer insights, brand strategy, consulting, account management, or related fields.
- An understanding of how brand, marketing, and insights teams work, with the ability to connect research to their goals and decisions.
- A consultative approach: you ask thoughtful questions, solve problems, and translate complex information into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Strong analytical and quantitative reasoning skills, with experience using Excel to interpret and synthesize data; Python is a plus.
- Familiarity with research methods and statistics—or a demonstrated ability to learn them—and the ability to explain findings to nontechnical audiences.
- Strong project management skills and attention to detail, with the ability to independently manage multiple client priorities and deliverables.
- Clear, confident communication and presentation skills, with experience contributing to client pitches or strategic presentations.
- A collaborative mindset and comfort learning quickly in a fast-paced startup environment.
- College degree or higher (STEM, communications, statistics, business, public policy fields can be helpful)

Benefits:

- 100% Medical, Dental & Vision Plans
- Starting base salary range of $110-$150K depending on previous experience
- Generous PTO
- Equity options
- 401k, FSA
- Ongoing professional development stipend

We are an equal opportunity employer. We strive to promote an organizational environment that values diversity and fosters growth. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other basis prohibited by law. The team especially encourages applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

## About Swayable

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Swayable provides a causal AI platform that measures how effectively media content changes opinions, using randomized controlled trials to prove advertising and messaging impact.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Public Benefit Corporation)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (with offices in San Francisco, CA, USA)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: James Slezak (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Advertising Technology / Marketing Analytics / Causal AI for Campaigns
- **Target customers**: B2B — major brands, advertising agencies, foundations, and political campaigns
- **Mission**: To dramatically increase the impact of the stories clients tell on the world’s most important issues, operating as a public benefit corporation dedicated to effective truth-telling.

## Products & Services
- **Creative Pre-Testing Platform**: A cloud-based SaaS platform that runs automated experiments with real human respondents to measure the impact of video, image, and concept content on brand perception, purchase intent, and opinion.
- **Brand Tracking**: Tracks consumer opinion and brand equities over time with customized segmentation for granular audience insights.
- **Research Surveys**: Real-time pulse surveys on consumer sentiment and brand perception.
- **Message & Tagline Testing**: Tests language and messaging to find the strongest performing copy.
- **Campaign Comparison**: Enables side-by-side testing of creative routes to quickly identify winning content.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; Y Combinator Winter 2018 batch graduate; team size ~30 employees
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (primary partner: Gustaf Alstromer); clients include New Balance and other major brands, agencies, and foundations
- **Growth Signals**: Currently hiring across multiple departments (data science, engineering, sales, product, client success); expanding enterprise sales with dedicated Sales Director roles; growing AI/ML engineering team

## Competitive Advantages
- **Causal AI methodology**: Uses rigorous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on tens of thousands of verified human respondents, providing stronger evidence than correlational methods.
- **Speed**: Delivers brand lift results in 24 hours.
- **Privacy-first design**: Exceeds GDPR and CCPA standards; built with informed user consent as a core feature.
- **Public Benefit Corporation status**: Mission-driven focus on combating disinformation, protecting democracy, and supporting sustainable brand growth.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling enterprise adoption of systematic creative testing across organizations.
- Deepening AI-native capabilities to model and understand audiences over time.
- Expanding partnerships with brands and agencies to integrate lift measurement into all stages of campaign development.
- Continuing to hire senior AI/ML talent to advance scientific computing and causal inference capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on technology that changes opinions on the world’s most important issues; team’s work is described as "changing the course of history."
- **Culture**: Public Benefit Corporation and equal opportunity employer; actively encourages women and members of underrepresented groups to apply.
- **Remote/hybrid**: Offers remote (US-based) roles alongside offices in San Francisco, New York City, and Washington, DC.
- **Diverse team**: Proud of a diverse team doing cutting-edge work at the intersection of data science, engineering, and social impact.
- **Leadership**: CEO James Slezak brings a unique background — PhD in experimental physics from Cornell, former Executive Director of Digital Strategy at The New York Times, and experience at McKinsey and Purpose.com.

## Sources
1. [swayable.com](https://www.swayable.com/)
2. [swayable.com/about](https://www.swayable.com/about/)
3. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/swayable)
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/swayable)

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