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title: 'Forward Deployed Strategist at Lazer'
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# Forward Deployed Strategist at Lazer

- **Company:** Lazer
- **Location:** Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lazer/36aa40a3-3f43-4564-a380-e2a9133b9419

## Job description

[Lazer](https://www.lazertechnologies.com) is a world-class digital product studio composed of 180+ senior engineers and designers with backgrounds from companies like Apple, Google, Coinbase, and more. With our product experience, we have designed, engineered, and grown products from $0 to $200M in revenue. Clients seek out our help because we have the talent to deeply understand their needs and provide industry, technical, or product insights that are uniquely valuable to their efforts. Our clients range from early-stage startups and venture studios to recognizable retail brands and exciting enterprises. Some of our notable clients include Google, Shopify, Coinbase, Alchemy, Hinge, OVO, Polymarket, and more. We are a remote-first organization headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with employees worldwide. We believe in providing the best experience possible for all Lazerites by fostering a strong community through regular events, company vacations, competitive compensation, unlimited PTO, and more! Join Lazer and help us solve problems and build the next generation of products!

Who You Are:

- Consulting-trained with a technical lean; 3+ years in client-facing consulting, strategy, product, or project management roles with a track record of owning projects end to end, ideally in a technology, data, or AI practice at an MBB, Big Four, or equivalent firm. Forward-deployed or AI startup experience is a strong plus.
- Hands-on AI power user; you use LLMs, agents, and AI workflow tools in your own work every day, and you know firsthand where they shine and where they break.
- Natural teacher; you excel at breaking down complex concepts and can explain AI to an executive, a skeptical end user, and an engineer in the same afternoon. You know rolling out a tool is the easy part, and getting people to change how they work is the real job.
- Structured thinker; you find the real problem underneath a vague request, reconcile competing stakeholder needs into a clear point of view, and communicate it in writing and slides that leaders act on.
- Trusted advisor; you build rapport quickly at every level, clients want you in the room, and you naturally notice where their business is headed and where more impact is possible. Prior account expansion experience is helpful but not required.
- Technically fluent; you've worked closely alongside engineering or data teams and understand how software, integrations, and data fit together well enough to ask sharp questions and translate between both sides. No coding required.
- Comfortable in ambiguity; you're energized by first-of-a-kind problems, move quickly without a perfect spec, and create structure where there isn't any.

What you will do:

- Embed with enterprise customers; act as a forward-deployed strategist on behalf of frontier AI labs and major AI companies, operating as an extension of their team and owning the path from signed contract to measurable value.
- Be the product manager for the customer's AI problem; lead discovery, map the organization, identify the use cases that will move the business, and define what success looks like.
- Communicate between customers and engineers; dissect feature requests, separate what the client is asking for from what they actually need, and hand engineers clear, prioritized requirements with the business context behind them.
- Own the plan and see it through; synthesize the needs of multiple stakeholders into a clear project plan, manage timelines, dependencies, and risks to ensure successful delivery, and keep leadership aligned with executive summaries, decks, and roadmaps that drive decisions.
- Turn users into builders; run workshops, office hours, and hands-on sessions that take non-technical teams from "what do I use this for?" to building their own AI workflows, and coach the mental game behind it: what to delegate, how to break work into steps an agent can handle, and when to trust the output.
- Make adoption stick; build curricula, guides, and playbooks for different teams and roles, track usage and outcomes, and surface blockers early so deployments move from experimentation to production.
- Grow the account and close the loop; turn early wins into broader rollouts and new scope, and bring sharp field insight back to our partners' product teams and Lazer's own deployment playbook.

Nice to Have:

- Ability to read code or build simple prototypes, automations, or integrations.
- Prior experience at an AI company, or deploying enterprise AI products (assistants, agent builders, enterprise search, copilots) at scale.
- Experience using Claude, ChatGPT, Glean, or similar tools in a work setting
- Product management experience at a software company.
- Background in enablement, instructional design, or change management for large, mixed-skill audiences.
- Familiarity with advanced AI concepts like RAG, MCPs, and agent orchestration

AI in our hiring process We use AI to help us review and shortlist applications based on job-related criteria. A human hiring manager always makes the call on who moves forward. As a company that builds with AI every day, we're all for candidates using it too — just be upfront about how it helped.

## Why Work With Us

- 🚀 Accelerate Your Growth: Work across multiple industries and cutting-edge projects with a team that ships fast.
- 💥 Maximum Impact: Shape the future of the tech industry by helping ambitious projects reach their potential.
- 🏅 True Ownership: Everyone ships code and has real autonomy with minimal meetings.
- 💡 Continuous Learning: Be part of a team of senior engineers and designers who love learning and knowledge sharing.

## Why This Might Not Be For You

- 🤖 You Resist Modern Tools: We leverage AI and cutting-edge technology to build rapidly and focus our energy on solving the most complex, high-impact challenges for our clients.
- 🏗️ You Crave High Structure: We thrive in an autonomous, fast-moving environment, which means you need to be comfortable with some ambiguity.
- 😴 You Prefer Conventional Careers: Our consulting approach involves varied projects and direct client interaction — it's not for everyone.
- 1️⃣ You Like Staying in One Lane: Our projects require adapting to different tech stacks and modern tooling quickly.

## Benefits & Perks

- 🌐 Work From Anywhere: Choose your workspace — all you need is strong wifi and a passion for building!
- 🧘‍♂️ Work / Life Balance: We believe in our team’s ability to have it all; a great career, and time to unplug and live…you know...life.
- 🩺 Employee Care: We provide full benefits (healthcare, dental, vision) for our employees (401k for our US employees)
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO: Everyone needs a break. Take at least 15 days off a year, and more if you need—just be cool about it and keep the team in mind.
- 🎉 Regular Team Retreat: Join us for a week of team bonding at amazing destinations. Recent trips include the Dominican Republic, Cancun, and Hawaii — plus ones welcome.

## About Lazer

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lazer is a product engineering and design agency that builds world-class software and AI for high-growth startups and leading enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed (team references 8+ years of operation)
- **Founders**: Arif Bhanji (Co-Founder & Co-CEO), Khallil Mangalji (Co-Founder & Partner)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software Development, Digital Product Engineering, AI Solutions, Design Consultancy
- **Target customers**: B2B; early-stage startups to Fortune 100 enterprises
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We build world-class software and AI – we forward-deploy into ambitious enterprises, high-growth startups, and AI labs to find the highest-impact opportunities, build them, and ship in production.”

## Products & Services
- **Forward Deployed Engineering**: Senior engineers embed directly with client teams to rapidly build and ship products across fintech, crypto, commerce, AI, and more.
- **AI Systems & Agentic AI**: Over 50 AI systems shipped into production, including work with frontier labs and enterprises deploying AI at scale.
- **Shopify Services (Platinum Partner)**: Full-stack Shopify development, technical architecture, and optimization – from store builds to custom apps.
- **Product Design & Strategy**: End-to-end product design, user research, and rapid prototyping.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 200+ employees; worked with 400+ clients; recognized as Shopify Platinum Partner
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external funding rounds disclosed; client list includes Google, Coinbase, Shopify, Uniswap, Polymarket, SKIMS, Kraken, Alo Yoga and more.
- **Growth Signals**: 57% headcount growth YoY; 38 active job postings (as of mid-2025); expanded to 20+ countries; increased LinkedIn followers by 37.6% yearly.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Top-tier talent pool**: Senior engineers and designers from Y Combinator, Google, Apple, Instagram, Shopify, Uber, Coinbase.
- **Proven track record**: Built products from $0 to $200M+ in revenue; 400+ clients across all verticals.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Specialized practices in AI, fintech, crypto, and commerce with measurable outcomes.
- **Remote-first, global delivery**: Operates in 20 countries, enabling access to diverse talent and 24/7 delivery.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue scaling AI and agentic engineering capabilities
- Deepen partnerships with Shopify (Platinum tier) and expand commerce offerings
- Grow crypto/blockchain practice alongside traditional enterprise clients
- Maintain high-touch, forward-deployed model while scaling headcount

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture** with headquarters in Toronto and team members across 20 countries
- **Competitive compensation** and unlimited PTO
- **Regular company vacations and events** to build community
- **Opportunity to work on world‑impacting products** for brands like Google, Coinbase, and Shopify
- **Engineering‑led environment** with strong seniority (43% of team are senior-level)
- **Fast growth** (57% YoY headcount increase) providing career progression opportunities

## Sources
1. [lazertechnologies.com](https://www.lazertechnologies.com/)
2. [lazertechnologies.com/about](https://www.lazertechnologies.com/about)
3. [lazertechnologies.com/careers](https://www.lazertechnologies.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/lazer-technologies](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/lazer-technologies)
5. [builtin.com/company/lazer-technologies](https://builtin.com/company/lazer-technologies)

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