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Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

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Remote · Nationwide · United Kingdom

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Overview

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
Responsibilities
  • 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
Key requirements
  • 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

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