Deployment Strategist

As a Deployment Strategist at Altus, you transform the business goals of institutional partners into executable fintech projects. You work directly with banks, card companies, securities firms, prime brokerages, asset managers, and global blockchain infrastructure companies. You lead projects end to end, from initial discussions and problem definition through solution design, proposal, build, and deployment. Often your starting point is a question rather than a clear requirement: "How can we use stablecoins in our payments business?", "How can we monetize idle capital with tokenized assets?", or "What do we need to prepare for an agent-based payments market?" Your role is to turn such questions into concrete decisions. You develop a deep understanding of the partner's business and operations, conduct necessary research, and review implementation approaches with engineers. You build internal consensus and decision-making grounds within the client organization, sharpen project scope with internal leadership, resolve obstacles during execution, and take responsibility through to the point where the designed solution is actually in use.

What you'll do

• Engage directly with institutional partners' executives, business, operations, and technology teams to understand business objectives, existing workflows, and constraints such as regulations and systems
• Analyze implicit needs beyond explicit requests, decompose initial ideas into clear objectives and concrete problems, and translate them into realistic execution plans
• Analyze existing financial processes such as payments, settlement, custody, foreign exchange, asset issuance, and distribution, and identify opportunities to improve them or enter new business areas through blockchain
• Conduct market, competitive, regulatory, and technical research to review the business case and feasibility of use cases and propose priorities
• Structure the flows of capital, assets, and data; define the roles of participating institutions; and work with the engineering team to design implementation approaches
• Compare different approaches including in-house development and external solutions, and develop proposals considering cost, timeline, operations, and risk
• Create deliverables required for client decision-making stages, including proposals, business cases, process diagrams, requirements specifications, and RFP responses
• Identify the client's project owners, budget holders, and key decision-makers; prepare evidence and materials needed for internal reviews by planning, compliance, security, and procurement teams
• Lead seminars, workshops, and demos to communicate complex financial and technology concepts in language the client can understand and act on
• Work with internal leadership and stakeholders to define project scope, execution approach, and commercial terms, and drive the actual contracting process
• Align with partners and internal teams on project scope, deliverables, timeline, roles, and responsibilities, and manage execution
• Translate business requirements and operational constraints so the engineering team can implement them, and explain how technical choices affect the business to partners
• Define validation items and success criteria for PoCs and pilots; based on results, pursue follow-up tasks necessary for actual deployment
• Identify issues that block progress such as regulatory review, system integration, operational processes, and external partner collaboration, and work with owners to resolve them
• Collaborate directly at client sites when needed, incorporate user feedback, and maintain relationships after deployment to drive operational improvements and identify new projects
• Understand the technology and business strategy of global blockchain and financial infrastructure companies, and identify joint customer opportunities and use cases to pursue
• Clarify collaboration structures and roles in projects involving multiple institutions and technology partners, and coordinate follow-up execution
• Work with research associates and engineers to set core questions and ensure output quality
• Organize knowledge gained in the field into frameworks, playbooks, and reusable solution requirements for use in future projects

What you bring

• Demonstrated experience structuring ambiguous problems and translating them into real deliverables or execution, from consulting, finance, business development, product, technology projects, or equivalent work
• Strong analytical and structural thinking ability to decompose complex information, distinguish confirmed facts from assumptions, and focus on critical decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communication in both Korean and English, able to lead logical proposals and discussions with practitioners and executives
• Business judgment and customer understanding to grasp why a customer should pursue a project, expected benefits, costs, and key risks, and explain them persuasively
• A mindset to deeply understand technical content, learn system architecture, capital flows, and data flows, and discuss specific requirements and constraints with engineers
• High ownership and execution capability to self-identify necessary work, collaborate with multiple stakeholders, and drive follow-up actions to completion
• Strong intellectual curiosity about traditional finance and blockchain, and willingness to learn and apply knowledge of unfamiliar domains to real problem-solving

Nice to have

• Experience in strategy or technology consulting, new business or digital strategy at financial institutions, enterprise solution deployment, or technology-based business development
• Understanding of financial products and financial infrastructure such as payments, settlement, custody, asset management, securities, and foreign exchange
• Experience with stablecoins, RWA tokenization, or institutional blockchain infrastructure
• Track record of managing projects from customer discovery and early proposal stages through PoC, build, and actual deployment
• Experience negotiating with global partners, co-developing business plans, or leading projects with multiple participating organizations
• Experience using technical tools such as SQL or Python to validate hypotheses or solve problems

What we offer

• Competitive compensation aligned with role and responsibility level; specific amount negotiated based on experience
• Full-time position with 12-week probation
• Based in Seoul, Gangnam District, with flexibility for on-site client collaboration and domestic/international travel depending on projects
• Start date negotiable

About Altus

Altus is a Global Blockchain Technology Foundry that designs, builds, and operates Layer 1 blockchains and core decentralized applications for global institutional partners. The company brings experience from the frontier where traditional finance and blockchain meet, including DeFi, stablecoin infrastructure, RWA, and payments systems. Altus acts as a co-builder with institutional partners, combining understanding of finance and technology to turn business opportunities into concrete execution from architecture design through deployment and operations.