Director of Forward Deployed Engineering, NORAM

$300,000–$360,000New York, NYHybridDirectorToday

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About the job

Leads Taktile’s NORAM Forward Deployed Engineering organization of 15–20 FDEs while owning delivery operations and quarterly go-live ARR.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

Lead and develop a 15–20-person NORAM FDE team
Own implementation operations, staffing, capacity, milestones, and project outcomes
Own the NORAM quarterly go-live ARR metric
Scale FDE tooling and operating standards with Product and Engineering

What you’ll bring

10+ years in implementation, forward-deployed, solution engineering, or equivalent B2B SaaS roles
Experience leading large, multi-quarter, seven-figure-ARR enterprise implementations
Experience managing a team of 5+ reports
Production expertise in Python, SQL, REST APIs, batch pipelines, and data-warehouse integrations

Technologies

Python · SQL · REST APIs · batch data pipelines · data-warehouse integrations · AI-agent training and evaluation · AWS · Azure · GCP

Pay and conditions

Posted pay: $300,000–$360,000
Pay details
$300K – $360K • Offers Equity
Location: New York, NY
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Employment type: Full-time
Experience requirements: 10+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work: Deployment team leadership

Our reading of the posting, not the employer’s words.

How this compares

The middle of this range is $330,000, above the $198,000 median for the 1,730 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.

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