Deployment Strategist

🏢 Afresh · 📍 San Francisco, California, United States 💰 $171,200 - $256,800 / yr
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Afresh, the AI platform for grocery, began by tackling the most complex problem in the industry: fresh, and has evolved into the core AI platform for grocers.

By leveraging proprietary AI designed for high-volatility environments, we empower partners like Albertsons, Meijer, and Wakefern to drive smarter decisions across their entire enterprise.

Following record-breaking 70% revenue growth in 2025, we have scaled to 6 enterprise-grade solutions, with solutions live in over 10% of the U.S. grocery market. Our platform now orchestrates billions of decisions from the store floor to the distribution center and prevented over 200 million pounds of food waste last year alone.

If you're looking for a role where your work directly translates into massive scale and social good, and you want to be part of the team that defines how the world eats, there is no better time to join us.

About the role

As a Deployment Strategist at Afresh, you'll work with some of the largest grocers in the World to figure out where AI can make a real difference to their business — and then turn those ideas into reality. You'll sit at the intersection of strategy, customers, sales, and product, helping translate a grocer's biggest business problems into solutions that create real value.

You'll work closely with our executives, commercial team, and engineers. You'll lead discovery with customers, identify and prioritize the problems worth solving, shape the opportunity, build or size the business case, and ultimately direct what we build.

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing AI company at an important moment in its evolution. You'll have the opportunity to shape how we work, what we build, and ultimately how we help define what AI looks like in the grocery industry.

  • Find the right problems to solve. Lead discovery with merchants, planners, analysts, IT, and executives. Understand how the business works, identify the highest-value problems, and turn them into specific use cases we can solve.
  • Shape the opportunity. Bring your perspective on what others are doing, what good looks like, and where the biggest opportunities are. Work with Sales to build the business case and determine what we should pursue first.
  • Define the solution and
🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Afresh Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assessing alignment with fresh food supply chain complexities, predictive data modeling capabilities, and mission-driven passion for reducing food waste.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Treating supply chain logistics purely as static theoretical math without accounting for real-world chaos.
  • 2. Lacking authentic alignment with the sustainability and food-waste mission.
  • 3. Overcomplicating technical solutions for end-users who operate in fast-paced grocery store environments.
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I build intelligent, resilient inventory systems that tackle the extreme volatility of fresh supply chains to radically reduce global food waste.

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