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
FDE jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers
101 postings · 77 companies · 79 state pay: median $263,000, half $225,000–$297,000
Postings read on · Updated
All filters
Counts show jobs matching each option and your other filters. Select several options to match any of them.
Location
Selected metros or remote. Remote jobs may have residency restrictions.
Pay
Matches the top of the posted range, annualized in US dollars and sometimes including variable pay. Postings with no posted range are hidden when you choose an amount.
Arrangement
Type of workLeads the deployment team
Level
Our reading of the role, not the employer’s title. Junior: guided work; Mid: independent delivery; Senior: leads an ambiguous project through production; Staff+: leads across teams or projects.
Background
The experience the posting asks you to arrive with, in the employer’s own words, not our reading of the job. A posting that states no experience requirement is in none of these, and neither is one asking for experience outside the five.
Experience
Postings that ask for that many years or fewer, plus postings that state no requirement. The kind of experience still matters.
Posted
Travel
Postings that do not mention travel are treated as no travel, so they are left out of 25% or more.
Individual contributor or manager
Company stage
Coding work
Project stages
Implementation share
Estimated from the job description, not measured working hours.
Who you build forExternal customers
Visa sponsorship
Company size
Estimated from public information about the company. Bands are approximate. Companies without a stated size are listed as not stated.
101 jobs match
Location
Selected metros or remote. Remote jobs may have residency restrictions.
101 jobs match
Pay
Matches the top of the posted range, annualized in US dollars and sometimes including variable pay. Postings with no posted range are hidden when you choose an amount.
101 jobs match
Arrangement
101 jobs match
Leads the deployment team
101 jobs match
Level
Our reading of the role, not the employer’s title. Junior: guided work; Mid: independent delivery; Senior: leads an ambiguous project through production; Staff+: leads across teams or projects.
101 jobs match
Background
The experience the posting asks you to arrive with, in the employer’s own words, not our reading of the job. A posting that states no experience requirement is in none of these, and neither is one asking for experience outside the five.
101 jobs match
Experience
Postings that ask for that many years or fewer, plus postings that state no requirement. The kind of experience still matters.
101 jobs match
Posted
101 jobs match
Travel
Postings that do not mention travel are treated as no travel, so they are left out of 25% or more.
101 jobs match
External customers
101 jobs match
$300,000–$350,000
$127,500–$249,350
$189,200–$372,900
Forward Deployed Data Engineering - Manager
New York, NY · Boston, MA · +1 moreNew York, NY +2
$99,000–$266,000
$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
$189,200–$372,900
Forward Deployed Data Engineering - Senior Manager
New York, NY · Boston, MA · +1 moreNew York, NY +2
$124,000–$335,000
Pay not posted
$225,000–$300,000
$189,200–$372,900
Forward Deployed Software Engineering - Manager
New York, NY · Boston, MA · +1 moreNew York, NY +2
$99,000–$266,000
$211,000–$264,000
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$600,000–$900,000
$189,200–$372,900
Forward Deployed Software Engineering - Senior Manager
New York, NY · Boston, MA · +1 moreNew York, NY +2
$124,000–$335,000
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
$189,200–$372,900
Pay not posted
Software Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed
Arlington, VA · Pittsburgh, PA · +1 moreArlington, VA +2Remote
Pay not posted
$190,000–$250,000
$223,700–$372,900
Director of Forward Deployed Engineering
Scottsdale, AZ · Sarasota, FL · +1 moreScottsdale, AZ +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$190,000–$240,000
$189,200–$372,900
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
$320,000–$405,000
Pay not posted
Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
Santa Clara, CA · Mountain View, CASanta Clara, CA +1Hybrid
$300,000–$350,000 · base + variable
VP, Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$268,800–$403,000
Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1
$227,000–$325,000
$200,000–$240,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$210,000–$305,000
$150,000–$180,000
$197,300–$394,600
All 101 lead deployment teams.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers pay?
79 of 101 postings state a pay range. The median is $263,000, and half of them sit between $225,000 and $297,000, from 58 companies.
How much experience do FDE jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers require?
Of 101 postings, 62 state a minimum number of years, from 49 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 29 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (24) or 3 to 5 years (9).
Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers?
These 101 postings come from 77 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (8), PwC (US) (4), Amazon (incl AWS) (3), OpenAI (3) and Cursor (Anysphere) (2).
Are FDE jobs that lead deployment teams serving external customers remote?
19 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 23 are hybrid and 21 are on-site. The remaining 38 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 46 of the 101 postings.
Counted over the 101 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings