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Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for people managers serving external customers
57 postings · 48 companies · 50 state pay: median $266,000, half $226,000–$325,000
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CrossCountry ConsultingBuilds what the customer runs
Forward Deployed Engineer & Agentic Workflow Engineer
US · city not listedHybrid
$150,000–$285,000
$302,000–$385,000
$163,100–$286,900
Pay not posted
$300,000–$415,000
$180,000–$220,000
$240,000–$300,000
$300,000–$360,000
$240,000–$315,000
$210,000–$300,000
$302,000–$385,000
Pay not posted
Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Irvine, CA · +4 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +5
$184,900–$287,700
Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering - Public Sector
Washington, DCOn-site
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Platform Engineering Senior Manager - Forward Deployed Engineer
Annapolis Junction, MD
$145,900–$248,000
$320,000–$488,750
$307,600–$468,200
$300,000–$415,000
Manager, Forward Deployed Marketing Engineers
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1On-site
$183,000–$190,500
$169,920–$315,600
Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)
Engagement Director - Forward Deployed Engineering
Pleasanton, CA · Austin, TXPleasanton, CA +1
$170,000–$220,000
$203,745–$275,655
Director, Product Management — Forward Deployed Engineering, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +1 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +2
$237,500–$350,000
$300,000–$350,000
$189,200–$372,900
$241,000–$390,500
Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Arlington, VA · Seattle, WA · +2 moreArlington, VA +3
$184,900–$275,200
$225,000–$300,000
$211,000–$264,000
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$600,000–$900,000
Director, Forward Deployed Engineering & AI GTM
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1
$200,000–$299,000
Forward Deployed Engineering Manager - Datadog for Startups
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$200,000–$250,000
Pay not posted
$190,000–$250,000
Director of Forward Deployed Engineering
Scottsdale, AZ · Sarasota, FL · +1 moreScottsdale, AZ +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$190,000–$240,000
Director, Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service
New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · US remoteNew York, NY +1 · US remoteRemote
$228,000–$403,200
55 of 57 lead deployment teams.
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Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for people managers serving external customers pay?
50 of 57 postings state a pay range. The median is $266,000, and half of them sit between $226,000 and $325,000, from 42 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for people managers serving external customers require?
Of 57 postings, 34 state a minimum number of years, from 31 companies. The most common requirement is 10 or more years, in 16 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (14) or 3 to 5 years (4).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for people managers serving external customers?
These 57 postings come from 48 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (3), OpenAI (3), Cursor (Anysphere) (2), Fieldguide (2) and Hadrian (2).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for people managers serving external customers remote?
11 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 19 are hybrid and 14 are on-site. The remaining 13 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 26 of the 57 postings.
Counted over the 57 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings