> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Forward Deployed GTM Architect Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7c7c695bb3843447 Artisan posts a FDE role to plan what the customer deploys first in San Francisco, CA and 1 more, at $130,000–$180,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Own the end-to-end deployment and ongoing performance of an autonomous outbound GTM system for Artisan's largest enterprise customers. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Artisan](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/artisan) Posted Aug 7, 2026 by Artisan · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$130,000–$180,000** + equity San Francisco, CA +1 On-site Full-time Own the end-to-end deployment and ongoing performance of an autonomous outbound GTM system for Artisan's largest enterprise customers. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F7c7c695bb3843447&placement=top) - [View posting at Artisan](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/artisan/77f1e47e-61d0-4245-bc99-02bb189ce392/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $130K–$180K Below the median Midpoint $155K · median $190K This job $130K to $180K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Plans what the customer deploys first Balance **Mixed** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Up to 50%** - **Coding**: Configuration only - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** GTM engineering, RevOps, sales strategy, or enterprise solutions consulting, with depth in complex sales organizations Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer engineering** - **Consulting** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 3+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Francisco, CA · New York, NY. Could you work in one of these? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA · New York, NY - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Remote work restrictions**: Based in the San Francisco or New York office. - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Up to 50% - **Pay**: ## More like this [Provectus](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/provectus) ### [Senior Product Owner | Forward Deployed AI Delivery (SF and NYC)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b16f757cfe829232) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 3w ago $140,000–$180,000 [Thomson Reuters](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thomson-reuters) ### [Senior Tax & Audit AI Engineer, FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6d5f1dea82405965) Brooklyn, NY · Frisco, TX · +3 more Hybrid New · 6d ago $102,200–$218,600 [Altana](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/altana) ### [ Staff AI Deployment Strategist ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4676a0bf140baee3) Brooklyn, NY · Washington, DC Hybrid 12d ago $165,000–$195,000 ## The job description from Artisan Posted by Artisan on Aug 7, 2026 Artisan · Full-time · In person in San Francisco or New York Salary: $130,000–$180,000 USD annually. Equity: 0.05%–0.15%. Existing US work authorization required. Customer travel up to 50%. ### Make AI employees work inside complex organizations Artisan builds AI employees that take on real work. Putting an AI employee to work across a large sales organization takes careful system design: territories, account ownership, CRM data, messaging, permissions, and the people responsible for each part all have to fit together. You'll own that deployment for our largest customers. You'll work with sales leadership, RevOps, IT, and legal to design the operating model, get it live, and improve the pipeline it produces. Expect to work deeply with a handful of accounts over quarters. This role combines GTM judgment, systems thinking, and hands-on customer ownership. You'll make consequential decisions and stay close enough to the work to see whether they hold up after the pilot. ### What you'll own - Design each customer's GTM system: segmentation, ICPs, account books, scoring, and campaign priorities across divisions and regions. - Build the intent signal strategy, including custom AI signals. Assess signal frequency, usefulness, and cost before committing to a program. - Define how autonomous outbound operates: suppression rules, approvals, team libraries, manager controls, and which actions require human review. - Own deployment across CRM integration, data hygiene, sending infrastructure, deliverability, knowledge, and messaging. Plan a rollout that can expand from a pilot to the wider organization. - Work through security review, procurement, data processing requirements, and regional constraints with the right customer stakeholders. - Own account performance. Review pipeline by campaign and team, investigate weak results, and change the program before the customer has to ask. - Lead on-site discovery, scoping, rollout workshops, and executive reviews. Build agreement across stakeholders with different priorities. - Partner with sales on large opportunities and stay involved through deployment and expansion. Help customers make a sound plan for replacing existing tools where Artisan fits. - Bring specific customer problems back to product and engineering and help shape the enterprise roadmap. ### What we're looking for - You have at least three years in GTM engineering, RevOps, sales strategy, or enterprise solutions consulting, with depth in complex sales organizations. - You've deployed a system into an organization with hundreds of sellers. You understand territories, competing ICPs, regional differences, and the work required to get adoption beyond a pilot team. - You've owned a pipeline result and can explain the decisions that improved it, including programs that failed. - You're comfortable with CRM object models, field quality, role hierarchies, sync conflicts, and account ownership rules. - You can work credibly with a CRO, a RevOps leader, and engineers. You can challenge an assumption clearly and build agreement among people who don't report to you. - You can turn an unclear customer problem into a system design and a practical rollout plan, then remain accountable for the result. - You're willing to travel to customer sites frequently, up to 50% of your time. ### Useful additional experience Hands-on experience with Salesforce, Outreach, Salesloft, ZoomInfo, Clay, 6sense, or similar systems would be valuable. SQL and light scripting are useful, but the core of this role is designing and operating the customer's GTM system. ### How we work This role is based in our San Francisco or New York office and reports to Meghna Sharma, our Forward Deployed Lead. Expect direct communication, close work with customers and engineers, and high standards for what happens after go-live. You'll have substantial ownership over your accounts. We value people who identify problems early, make clear recommendations, and follow through on the details. ### Interview process 1. An introductory conversation. 2. A 30-minute interview with Meghna. 3. A 60-minute working session: design a rollout for a real enterprise scenario. 4. A 45-minute interview with Meghna. 5. A 30-minute culture and values conversation with Jaspar, our CEO. ### About Artisan Artisan builds AI employees that take on real work. Our first three are Ava, our outbound AI BDR; Aaron, our inbound AI SDR; and Aria, our AI account executive. Our broader mission is to build AI employees that can take responsibility for work across many roles and industries. [View posting at Artisan](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/artisan/77f1e47e-61d0-4245-bc99-02bb189ce392/application) ## About Artisan Builds autonomous AI employees for outbound sales — Ava sources and researches leads, writes personalized outreach, runs sequences, handles replies, and books meetings end-to-end. 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