--- title: 'Founding Deployment Strategist at Arch' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-deployment-strategist-arch-san-francisco-d1eb18g0mv3t' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Founding Deployment Strategist at Arch - **Company:** Arch - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-07-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/arch/2a028deb-0eac-439b-9921-7f0a5cec42c4 ## Job description ## FOUNDING DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIST Bay Area · In person 3 days a week · Reports to the CEO · Starting September 1 AI has reached software. It has not reached the physical economy. Home services is where that changes. Private equity is rolling up HVAC, plumbing, and electrical faster than almost any industry in America. Serious capital, serious operators, and almost no idea how to grow the customers they already have. It may be the largest untouched operating lever in the economy. Arch is built to pull it. We read the operator's data, decide the move, and then run it ourselves across email, SMS, OTT, and direct mail. Not a dashboard that tells someone what to do. The thing that does it. Until recently that was not possible. What software cannot do is walk into a nine-brand rollup, work out who actually decides, find the general manager who has been quietly right for two years, and turn that into something a CMO will act on. That takes a person. We do not have one yet. If you have spent three years diagnosing problems that other people were supposed to fix, this is the same job with the execution attached. ## WHO WE ARE Small team in San Francisco. Backed by Coatue, Mike Schroepfer, Floodgate, Gigascale, ReGen Ventures, MCJ Collective, and the founders of Aurora Solar. Founded by Philipp Krinner (Stanford GSB, ex-McKinsey) and Sacha Schmitz (serial founder, ex-YC). We work with Flint Group, Legacy Service Partners, and ResiXperts. Home services is the beachhead, not the destination. ## THE JOB Deployment Strategist in the Palantir sense. The strategist, not the engineer. You are the first hire whose work begins the day the contract is signed. No customer success team. No playbook. You work directly with the CEO. Week one on an account, you are not onboarding. You are mapping. Who decides, who blocks, who has been waiting for someone to ask. You bring them benchmarks almost nobody in this industry has. You pull the data and find the thing nobody named. You launch. Six weeks later you show the CMO a holdout test that proves what Arch added. By the time the conversation reaches the other eight brands, it is not a pitch. ## WHAT YOU WILL OWN - The map. Who decides, who influences, who blocks. Rollups are political. That is the terrain, not a nuisance. - The diagnosis. The stated problem is rarely the real one. Pull the thread until something surprises them. - The proof. Holdouts, incrementality, ROI. You build the model and you present it yourself. - The growth. You carry a retention and expansion number. Do the first three well and this mostly takes care of itself. - The playbook. Write it down, so the next fifty accounts do not need you in the room. YOU - 2 to 4 years at MBB or in PE value creation, promoted at least once - You have been on the hook when a number had to move, not just recommended that it should - You can walk into a business you have never seen and know within two weeks who really runs it - You ask the question everyone else was too polite to ask - You would rather own one hard outcome than advise on ten - Bonus: home services, field services, or anywhere a sponsor watches the EBITDA line ## THE DETAILS Interviews start in August Competitive cash and equity comp. Platinum health benefits. Home services is where we start. The person who works out how to create value here is the obvious person to go run the next vertical. You are the first. What you build becomes the playbook for everyone who follows. ## About Arch ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AI-powered revenue automation platform that helps HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and drain contractors retain customers, find high-intent leads, and automate multi-channel marketing campaigns. - **Entity Type**: Private – Seed stage (total funding $6.2M) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with presence in Ireland) - **Founded**: 2022 (Pre-Seed funding closed February 2023) - **Founders**: Phil K. (Co-Founder & CEO), Sacha Schmitz (Co-Founder) ## Core Business - Primary industry: Home services software / Marketing automation for trade contractors - Target customers: B2B – SMBs and mid-market contractors in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and drain services - Mission/purpose: “Accelerate the biggest infrastructure transition in human history” – enabling home services operators to adopt the right upgrades at the right time through data, automation, and financing. ## Products & Services - **Arch Platform (AI Revenue Software)**: End-to-end marketing automation that ingests data from ServiceTitan, analyzes customer health, identifies churn risks, and automatically runs retention and lead-generation campaigns. Includes email and direct mail execution, A/B testing, and full attribution tracking. - **AI-Lead Discovery**: Machine learning that analyzes permits, property data, and market signals to surface high-intent prospects before competitors. - **Precision Diagnostics**: Benchmarking tool that compares a contractor’s performance against proprietary industry data (thousands of contractors) to pinpoint churn gaps and upsell opportunities. - **Automated Retention Campaigns**: Detect at-risk customers and re-engage them with personalized offers without manual intervention. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric (Funding)**: $6.2M total (Pre-Seed Feb 2023 + Seed Feb 2024) - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Backed by leading investors (5 investors in Seed round; names not publicly disclosed). Closely integrated with ServiceTitan. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 42.9% YoY (now 8 employees) - Website traffic up 232.5% month-over-month and 193.3% year-over-year - Customer case study: Pacific Heating & Cooling generated ~$138K in new pipeline in 36 days at ~11x ROI - Two active job postings as of mid-2026 (Founding GTM and Founding Account Executive) ## Competitive Advantages - **Trade‑specific specialization**: Built exclusively for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and drain contractors, not generic business software. - **Deep ServiceTitan integration**: Native connection means data stays in sync and attribution is accurate. - **Proprietary benchmark data**: Industry’s most comprehensive performance database from thousands of contractors, enabling precise diagnostic recommendations. - **Autonomous execution**: Runs end-to-end campaigns (list building, printing, mailing, A/B testing, attribution) with no need for agencies or extra headcount. - **Unique external data sources**: Incorporates permits, real estate transactions, and financial signals to build a complete market picture. ## Strategic Focus - Scale the “Autonomous Revenue Engine” to help home services operators capture market share without increasing headcount. - Expand AI lead discovery and predictive analytics to reduce customer churn (industry average is 36% annual churn; best contractors achieve 8%). - Continue vertical integration with ServiceTitan and potentially add more home services verticals (e.g., drain). - Fundraising likely later as growth accelerates (current seed stage). ## Why Work Here - **Culture & values**: Camaraderie (supportive, assume best intentions), Ownership (ask forgiveness, not permission), Urgency & Focus (bias for action, address climate challenges), and Excellence (continuous learning, high standards). - **Team size & impact**: Tiny, fast-moving team (~8 people) – early employees will have outsized ownership and influence. - **Work environment**: San Francisco headquarters with international presence (Ireland). Likely in‑office or hybrid given the early stage; specific remote policy not stated. - **Perks / engineering culture**: Opportunities to shape the product from the ground up (“founding” roles), work on climate‑critical infrastructure transition, and build AI/ML features that drive real revenue outcomes for contractors. - **Recent job openings**: Founding GTM role and Founding Account Executive (as of May/June 2026). Ideal for candidates who thrive in extreme pace and high autonomy. ## Sources 1. [getarch.com (homepage)](https://getarch.com/) 2. [getarch.com/about](https://getarch.com/about) 3. [getarch.com/careers](https://getarch.com/careers) 4. [linkedin.com/company/get-arch](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-arch) 5. 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