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title: 'Forward Deployment Strategist - Toronto at Maxima'
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# Forward Deployment Strategist - Toronto at Maxima

- **Company:** Maxima
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maxima/645f08a2-bf64-4328-a10f-6dbd8bedde8a

## Job description

## ABOUT US:

Maxima is the first agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting, purpose built to deliver SOX compliant, real time close. Our founders have experience coming from both sides of the problem: from overseeing the finance org at Rubrik, to building month-end close systems at Twitter and Netflix. We have raised the largest seed in history in the accounting space from Kleiner Perkins & Audacious Ventures and are backed by finance leaders at companies such as Rippling, OpenAI, and UI Path.

## ROLE OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Forward Deployment Strategist to guide enterprise customers through complex implementations and ensure they achieve measurable outcomes with Maxima. In this role, you will work directly with CFOs, Controllers, and Accounting Operations teams to deploy our AI platform, automate their close processes, and deliver real-world efficiency gains.

This role is inherently cross-functional. You will collaborate daily with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success, translating business goals into technical solutions that scale. You will help shape our deployment methodology, lead customer implementations, and serve as the bridge between customer needs and product innovation.

Success in this role will be defined by impact — accelerating deployments, driving product adoption, and translating insights from the field into repeatable, scalable playbooks.

## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead Deployments: Own the technical and operational delivery for multiple enterprise implementations, ensuring each customer achieves their automation and close efficiency goals.
- Bridge Teams: Act as the primary interface between customers, Product, and Engineering to translate accounting workflows into well-defined implementation plans.
- Drive Execution: Manage deployment timelines, dependencies, and milestones, proactively removing blockers and coordinating technical resources to stay on track.
- Design Repeatable Processes: Create standardized frameworks, tools, and templates that streamline how Maxima is deployed across customers and industries.
- Partner with Sales: Support pre-sales scoping and discovery to define project requirements, feasibility, and implementation plans for enterprise prospects.
- Customer Advocacy: Gather insights from the field to inform product roadmap priorities, capacity planning, and future platform capabilities.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify patterns across deployments, capture best practices, and drive improvements in delivery velocity and customer outcomes.

## QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of experience in enterprise customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, or Technical Implementation.
- Proven track record leading complex, high-stakes software deployments across large enterprise organizations.
- Strong understanding of financial systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or Workday, or prior experience working in or with finance operations teams.
- Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences, guiding both engineers and finance stakeholders toward a common solution.
- Excellent project management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience designing scalable processes and standardizing workflows.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a high degree of ownership.
- Curiosity about AI and its potential to transform enterprise operations.

## WHY JOIN US:

- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales to define how AI agents are deployed at scale.
- Be the bridge between real-world accounting challenges and the technology solving them.
- Be a core part of a mission-driven startup looking to transform accounting processes.
- Work in a fast-paced environment where your decisions directly impact product direction and company growth.
- Competitive salary, equity, and benefits (401k, unlimited PTO)

Join us in revolutionizing accounting month-end close and making accounting operations more efficient for businesses everywhere!

## About Maxima

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Maxima is the first agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting, automating the record-to-report close process with AI agents that are accountant-reviewed.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Yogi Goel (Co-founder & CEO), Akshaya Srivatsa (Co-founder & CPO), Jack Liao (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise accounting automation / AI-powered financial close software.
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise finance and accounting teams at high-growth and large-scale companies.
- **Mission**: Maximize every customer's long-term financial performance through real-time accounting.

## Products & Services
- **Maxima Agentic Accounting Platform**: An AI-native platform that automates the month-end close end-to-end. AI agents pull data from ERPs, banks, payroll, billing, and other systems to prepare journal entries, reconciliations, variance explanations, and audit trails – all accountant-reviewed and SOX-compliant. Handles cash coding, payroll JEs, balance sheet reconciliations, prepaids, commissions, leases, fixed assets, and more.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $41.0M (Seed + Series A); processes over $300B in transaction volume for customers.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Redpoint, Audacious Ventures (led Series A); customers include Rippling, Scale AI, Zip, Glean, Zendesk, and Bilt Rewards.
- **Growth Signals**: 53 employees as of mid-2025, with presence in the US, Canada, and South Korea. Headcount growing rapidly (LinkedIn followers at 5,193 with +2.3% monthly growth). Active hiring across engineering, sales, and go-to-market roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agent-prepared, accountant-reviewed** model: AI agents perform the work, accountants review – combining speed with trust and auditability.
- **Finance graph**: Unifies all financial data sources into a single context and lineage model, enabling true end-to-end automation.
- **Deterministic logic with transaction-level lineage**: Every output is review-ready with full audit trail, meeting SOX compliance.
- **Built by a team of top fintech engineers (Google, Apple, Robinhood, Bolt, Meta) and former auditors from EY, PwC** – deep domain expertise.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand agentic capabilities across the entire record-to-report cycle.
- Continue building out integrations with major ERP and finance systems (150+ native integrations).
- Scale go-to-market and customer success to serve more enterprise accounting teams.
- Recruit top AI and engineering talent to advance the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Builders who want to raise the bar” – values include customer first, act like an owner, rigor at speed, invent don’t inherit, and making each other formidable. Strong emphasis on ownership and impact.
- **Work model**: Primarily onsite in San Mateo (CA) headquarters; also remote roles available across the US and Canada. Strong in-office culture with commuter benefits.
- **Perks**: Equity + top-of-market salary, health/dental/vision, 401(k) plan, unlimited PTO, free lunches and snacks, shiny new Apple equipment, team building events.
- **Engineering culture**: Small, high-impact teams working on cutting-edge LLM/agentic AI applied to a decades-old enterprise problem. Co-located in San Mateo and Toronto.

## Sources
1. [maxima.ai](https://www.maxima.ai/)
2. [maxima.ai/careers](https://www.maxima.ai/careers)
3. [maxima.ai/about](https://www.maxima.ai/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/maximaai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maximaai)
5. [builtin.com/company/maxima-0](https://builtin.com/company/maxima-0)

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