Forward Deployed Team Lead
$155,000–$197,000 year
On-site · Redwood City, California, United States
Job Summary
Forward Deployed Team Leads are senior technical leads who own a commercial or enterprise customer end-to-end. You’ll combine strong technical architecture, hands-on coding, product ownership, project management, and stakeholder communication—embedding directly with customers to take our product from “design” to “in production.” You’ll own one account at a time: scope the workflow with business and technical stakeholders, design the architecture, write the code that closes the gaps, and drive the deployment through to measurable business value. Responsibilities include technical architecture (data flow, integration topology, identity model, deployment architecture), hands-on coding (backend services, data pipelines, APIs, integrations), product ownership (deployment roadmap, SOW, scope decisions), project management (plans, milestones, risks), stakeholder communication (executive briefings, status updates), ship into production (dev to production with ERP/CRM integrations and cloud) and ensuring enterprise readiness (security/compliance). The role also covers account growth with Sales, and bringing field learnings back to the core platform. Preferred qualifications include prior SaaS/enterprise experience with forward-deployed or professional services motion, AI/ML platform deployments, cloud familiarity (AWS/Azure/GCP), regulated industry experience, and the ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into repeatable deployment patterns. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years shipping production software
- 2+ years as a tech lead or senior individual contributor owning delivery end-to-end
- Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Go, or C++
- Demonstrated ownership of systems taken from zero to production in a commercial or enterprise context
- Bring deep expertise in at least one vertical (financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, or defense)
- Experience working directly with business and technical stakeholders at mid-market or enterprise accounts—comfortable in both exec-level conversations and deep technical design sessions
- Familiarity with enterprise data environments: cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift), REST/GraphQL APIs, and common ERP or CRM platforms
- Comfort with modern deployment practices: CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), cloud-native services, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)
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