Deployment Strategist

At Avendar, we build investigative intelligence that helps public institutions make society safer and more resilient. Our platform turns thousands of pages of fragmented evidence into the handful of signals that matter, so investigators handle more cases with the same team, and every decision stays traceable and theirs.

Avendar was founded in early 2025 by three serial founders with over 20 years of experience deploying high-risk AI in regulated environments. The Dutch National Police, the Ministry of Justice and Security, and the city of Amsterdam already work with us.

The opportunity
A police unit or ministry decides to work with Avendar. That is where the real work starts. Before an investigator runs a first case, the privacy officer, the legal and AI team, information management, information security and the investigative team all need to say yes, and mean it. Where most companies view this as a hurdle, we see it as the work necessary to make our customers succeed. 

We are looking for a Deployment Strategist who owns everything between "we want to start" and "this runs in production and investigators use it every day".

The role
You own the deployment, end to end. There is one measure: does the customer investigate more cases. Everything that gets in the way of that is your job, whether it's a DPIA, a sceptical security architect or an investigative team that needs to be onboarded. 

• Map the customer's organisation and bring every stakeholder along, from the CIO and the privacy officer to the detective who has to trust the output. You know who needs to approve our software and what they need to see.

• Understand what the customer actually needs, not just what they ask for, and agree with them on what we deploy first.

• Run the compliance and security track: DPIA, AI Act assessment, information security reviews. You don't have to write every document yourself, but you make sure they get written and approved.

• Get the product into production together with our engineers: scope the investigative process, prepare the customer, arrange the data and the people, and stay close until adoption is real. You don't build the software, but you definitely make sure it lands.

• Spend meaningful time on site. See where the software falls short and bring a clear ask back to the team.

• Build business cases and proposals for new use cases, and present them to anyone from a team lead to a director.

• Turn what you learn into playbooks and tooling, so the next deployment is faster than the last.

You work directly with the founders and the engineering team.

There is one requirement: you take ownership and you get results. Everything else you can learn by doing.  

This might sound simple, but it isn’t. It means you don’t wait for a plan or the right moment. When a deployment is stalling because a form is sitting on someone’s desk, you find the desk. When something needs doing and nobody owns it, you own it. 

We don’t hire based on years of experience or a specific background. Legal, policy, consulting, engineering, data: all fine. You can be a recent graduate or have years of experience.

What we are looking for: 

• You have gotten things done in situations where nobody told you how. 

• You can explain complex topics clearly, to a privacy officer, an investigator and a director. 

• You are willing to learn what a deployment needs, whether that is a DPIA, a data model or an integration question. 

• Fluent in Dutch and English. Most of our customers work in Dutch. 

• You are happy spending time with our customers across the Netherlands.
  

Nice to have: experience navigating large organizations, the public sector or regulated environments; knowledge of regulations and information security.

What we value

Action matters. We look for people who think clearly, move fast, and help execute our plan across the Netherlands and Europe. 

Positivity and energy are key. We genuinely enjoy the work we do at Avendar and operate with big ambitions.

• Compensation based on experience (€4k to €6k gross monthly salary), full-time position (40 hours).

• 25 vacation days.

• MacBook Pro and the gear you need to do your best work.

• Hybrid-remote working environment; our office is at JADS on the Mariënburg in 's-Hertogenbosch, overlooking the Dommel.

• The hiring process consists of an introductory call, followed by an on-site interview where we work together, after which you’ve met the team and we can make an offer.

• Please upload an up-to-date CV with your application.

  Want to know more about this vacancy? Contact Marloes Kapteijns at +31622724734