Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA
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As the regional Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, you will build and lead a high-performing FDE team to accelerate enterprise adoption of automation. You’ll own delivery quality, people development, and regional execution, while staying hands-on with customer engagements. You’ll shape production-ready workflows, reference architectures, and reusable assets, aligning with cross-functional partners to deliver measurable customer outcomes. This is a pivotal leadership role at a fast-growing, remote-first AI workflow platform.
Pay / Benefits- Competitive compensation
- Equity ownership
- Remote-first with global flexibility
- Comprehensive health plans (regional specifics vary)
- 401(k) with employer match (US)
- Hackathons and opportunities for skill growth
- Build and lead a high-performing regional FDE team, hiring and coaching engineers and partnering with Deployment Strategists
- Set and maintain a high technical quality bar for production workflows, custom nodes, and integration architectures
- Manage regional capacity, workload, and staffing while remaining hands-on with customer engagements
- Lead regional engagement intake and prioritization with Customer Success, Sales, and Partnerships for high-value accounts and renewals
- Qualify and scope customer engagements, balance internal FDEs and delivery partners, and ensure clear success criteria and timelines
- Drive measurable customer outcomes through production-ready workflows and smooth handovers to Customer Success
- Create reusable technical assets (workflows, architectures, workshop materials) and turn learnings into scalable best practices
- Collaborate with Partner Delivery Manager to ensure partner-led engagements meet standards and support partner readiness
- Translate customer feedback into actionable priorities with Product and Engineering to improve reusable product capabilities
- 6+ years in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, professional services, or technical consulting in a software company
- 2+ years of technical team leadership and coaching experience
- Hands-on experience with workflow automation, integration platforms, or low-code tools
- Experience delivering production-ready workflows and integrations with APIs, authentication, data handling, security, and enterprise architecture considerations
- Strong cross-functional collaboration across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Partnerships
- Customer outcome mindset and ability to balance technical excellence with business impact
- Player-coach mentality with hands-on technical work and scalable delivery processes
- Regional availability and willingness to travel to customer sites as needed
- leadership and team development
- cross-functional collaboration
- customer-focused delivery
- workflow automation
- integration platforms
- low-code tools
Reference: WJ-747_31293066 · Posted 14 Nov 2026, 12:11 PM