> 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 Deployment Strategist Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8469178f90b3b908 Maxima posts a FDE role to plan what the customer deploys first in San Mateo, CA with no pay posted. Lead enterprise implementations and deliver automation and close-efficiency goals. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Maxima](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/maxima) Posted Sep 10, 2026 by Maxima · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Mateo, CA On-site Full-time Lead enterprise implementations and deliver automation and close-efficiency goals. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F8469178f90b3b908&placement=top) - [View posting at Maxima](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Maxima/26bea2bf-bdd3-44a5-bea0-6c58d09c53b5/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 Not posted 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 Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** enterprise customer-facing technical roles Background - **Solutions and customer engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Mateo, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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Maxima was built so they don't have to. Our agents do the accounting work itself: journal entries, transaction matching, reconciliations, and flux analysis, continuously and with a full audit trail. Accountants review and approve. Nothing posts without a person signing off. We remove the grind, not the human. Maxima is the agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting. Our three co-founders scaled finance at Rubrik from $5M ARR to a $15B NYSE IPO, built the reconciliation and billing systems behind Netflix's $32B in annual revenue, and built AI infrastructure serving two billion monthly users at Meta. We've raised $41M from Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Audacious Ventures, joined by former BlackLine executives and the CFOs of Rubrik and Vanta. To date we've processed more than $400B across 350M transactions at 100.00% accuracy, for customers including Scale AI, Rippling, Glean, Zendesk, Handshake, Zip, and Decagon. We're early and moving fast. The playbook here gets written, not inherited, and the person closest to the work makes the call. We're looking for people who build from first principles and hold themselves accountable for what actually lands — people who'd rather build the category than join it. Everything you need to know is below. ### The role Deployment is where Maxima proves itself. As a **Forward Deployment Strategist**, you will guide enterprise customers through complex implementations and make sure they get measurable results, working directly with CFOs, controllers, and accounting operations teams to deploy the platform, automate their close, and deliver efficiency gains they can point to. The role is cross-functional by nature. You will work daily with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success, shape the deployment methodology itself, lead implementations, and be the bridge between what customers need and what the product does. Success looks like faster deployments, stronger adoption, and field insight turned into repeatable playbooks. ### What you'll do - Own technical and operational delivery for multiple enterprise implementations, so each customer reaches its automation and close-efficiency goals - Act as the primary interface between customers, Product, and Engineering, translating accounting workflows into well-defined implementation plans - Manage deployment timelines, dependencies, and milestones, removing blockers and coordinating technical resources - Create standardized frameworks, tools, and templates for deploying Maxima across customers and industries - Support pre-sales scoping and discovery to define requirements, feasibility, and implementation plans for enterprise prospects - Bring field insight into roadmap priorities, capacity planning, and future platform capabilities - Identify patterns across deployments, capture best practices, and improve delivery velocity and customer outcomes ### What we're looking for - 5 or more years in enterprise customer-facing technical roles such as solutions engineering, forward deployed engineering, or technical implementation - A track record of leading complex, high-stakes software deployments at large enterprises - Strong understanding of financial systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or Workday, or experience working in or with finance operations teams - Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences, guiding engineers and finance stakeholders toward a common solution - Excellent project management, communication, and problem-solving skills - Experience designing scalable processes and standardizing workflows - Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a high degree of ownership - Curiosity about AI and what it can do for enterprise operations ### Where and how you'll work This role is based in our San Mateo office. We value in-person collaboration and are in office four to five days a week for our on-site roles. ### Why join Maxima - **The work.** Agentic accounting is a category being defined right now, and Maxima is one of the companies defining it. The product does the accounting work itself, so what you build, sell, or deploy shows up in a customer's books - **The people.** Founders who ran the finance org at Rubrik and built the close systems at Twitter and Netflix. Engineers from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. Controllers and accountants on the team who have closed books themselves. Small teams in San Mateo and Toronto that work in the same room, say what they think, and hold a high bar - **The benefits.** Competitive salary, 401(k) for US employees, unlimited PTO, lunch in the office, and commuter benefits - **The process.** A person reads every application, and we tell you where you stand at every stage ### A note on AI *We build AI and we expect you to use it. Use it to research us and to prepare. In live conversations we want your own thinking in your own words, and if you use AI on a take-home exercise, tell us where it helped.* ### Equal opportunity *Maxima is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status. 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