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We replace the legacy systems federal agencies run on with modern software, built with craft. The ticketing platform a resident uses to visit a presidential library. The marketplace DoW uses for counter-drone procurement to protect lives and critical infrastructure. The system a Veteran uses to access benefits. We build systems of record, of national consequence. Our AI-native modules and harness allow us to do so in weeks and months, not years.\nThis year, our revenue has grown 35x. Next year, our software will serve over 100 million Americans across dozens of federal agencies.\nFounded in 2022 and based in New York City and DC, Kaizen has raised $35 million from NEA, a16z, Accel, 776, and Carpenter Capital.\nLocation\nThis is a hybrid role based out of our New York or DC. Candidates must reside in New York or DC and be able to commute to work out of our office at least four times a week (Monday - Thursday).\nClearance and Eligibility\nThis role requires an active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance. United States citizenship is required, because it is a condition of eligibility for the clearance the role depends on.\nThe Role\nYou'll own the full implementation journey for Kaizen's federal customers: scoping the rollout, configuring the platform, training agency staff, and staying in the room until the deployment is actually adopted, not just launched. You'll work inside classified and accredited environments where every integration decision has to account for what data can move where, and you'll partner closely with the engineering team to make sure what gets shipped actually fits how the agency operates.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn end-to-end federal implementations: discovery, scoping, configuration, data migration, integrations, training, go-live, and post-launch support.\n\nLead onboarding for agency stakeholders and career staff, translating what they actually need into a rollout plan that survives contact with a live agency.\n\nWork inside classification and data-handling constraints as a design input, not an obstacle, coordinating closely with engineering on what can be built and how.\n\nTranslate patterns from the field back to Product and Engineering: edge cases, workflow gaps, and the things agencies never put in the RFP but need on day one.\n\nAct as the connective tissue between customer-facing implementation and the engineers building, so what ships matches what was promised.\n\nBuild the playbooks, templates, and internal documentation that make the next federal deployment faster than this one.\n\nGuide public sector partners through the actual change management of replacing a legacy system, not just the technical cutover.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n3+ years in SaaS implementation, onboarding, solutions engineering, or a product-adjacent delivery role (Implementation Consultant, Solutions Architect, Technical Program Manager), with a track record of owning multi-stakeholder rollouts.\n\nTechnical fluency: comfortable working with APIs, data models, and system configurations, and able to hold your own in a conversation with engineers about integration tradeoffs.\n\nExperience translating customer requirements into implementation plans and technical workflows, not just a status tracker.\n\nComfort operating inside classified or otherwise accredited environments, or a clear ability to pick up new compliance and data-handling constraints fast.\n\nA bias toward action: you'd rather build the process while running the deployment than wait for someone to hand you one.\n\nStrong Candidates May Also...\nHave deployed software inside a classified or accredited environment before and know where the real friction lives.\n\nHave touched federal, state, or local government implementation work specifically, versus enterprise SaaS generally.\n\nHave built implementation playbooks or internal tooling from scratch at an early-stage company.\n\nDon't Apply If...\nYou need a mature playbook to follow. Most of what you'll use here, you'll be building.\n\nYou want to hand off the hard technical questions to engineering and stay on the process side. This role lives at that intersection.\n\nYou're looking for a steady-state customer success role. This is deployment under real constraints, with real agencies, and real consequences if it goes wrong.\n\nGovernment bureaucracy and slow-moving stakeholders would wear you down instead of something you know how to work with.\n\nThe agencies you'll be deploying to serve people who don't have another option if the system doesn't work. That's the weight of this one.\n\nWhat Kaizen Offers\nHealth & Insurance\n100% coverage across the board: medical through Oxford/United (Gold and Platinum PPO plans), dental through Guardian PPO, and vision through Beam - all fully covered for employees, with 100% coverage for dependents.\n\n$100,000 in fully paid life insurance. 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