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Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
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Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
Location: Remote (UK) | Role: Leadership Team Employment: High-Growth AI Scale-Up ** Package:** Up to £140K – £170K base + equity
About the Role
We’re partnering with a transformative AI company that’s reshaping how businesses apply artificial intelligence to solve their most complex challenges. With 75 global employees and aggressive YoY growth, the business stands at an inflection point, driven by increasing enterprise adoption.
We’re seeking a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering to establish and lead a function at the heart of customer delivery, product innovation, and technical excellence—playing a critical role in shaping the company’s trajectory.
This is a rare chance to join an ambitious scale-up, where your leadership will directly impact strategy, client outcomes, and product evolution.
The Opportunity
As Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, you’ll oversee a team responsible for:
- Partnering with enterprise customers to deploy, tailor, and optimise AI solutions in real-world environments.
- Bridging engineering, product, and customer success, ensuring rapid value realisation while informing the product roadmap.
- Combining technical leadership, team-building, and customer-facing strategy in a business undergoing explosive growth.
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Your role sits at the nexus of execution and vision, with unprecedented visibility across all functions.
Key Responsibilities
- Build & Lead: Assemble a high-performing Forward Deployed Engineering team.
- Enterprise Partnerships: Collaborate with key AI-driven clients to align their business objectives with scalable solutions.
- Implementation Leadership: Own the deployment, governance, and optimisation of complex AI products.
- Roadmap Influence: Partner directly with Product & Engineering leadership to shape priorities based on customer demands.
- Process Define: Establish scalable delivery frameworks, implementation best practices, and operational processes.
- Pre-Sales Support: Coordinate solution design for high-value enterprise opportunities.
- Technical Advisory: Serve as a trusted AI transformation advisor to clients from inception to long-term success.
- Strategic Vision: Help define the company’s next-gen AI momentum and customer-centric roadmap.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Sofisticated technical leadership experience across:
- Customer-facing engineering
- Solutions engineering
- Forward-deployed engineering or technical consulting
- Deep software engineering fundamentals with confidence in architecture and technical decision-making.
- Proven track record in delivering complex, high-impact AI/ML/Data implementations for enterprise customers.
- Experience at a high-growth technology scale-up, ideally in a venture-backed environment.
- Outstanding communication + stakeholder management skills, bridging from engineers to C-suite.
- Builder mindset: Thrives in founding and scaling teams, functions, and operational excellence.
- Bonus points for:
- Hands-on expertise in AI, ML, LLMs, data platforms, or modern SaaS stacks.
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Why Join Us?
- Impactful Scale-Up: Help shape a pivotal AI business at a defining growth stage.
- Executive Sanktnding: Drive an influential function with minimal hierarchy.
- Talent Network: Work alongside top-tier product & engineering teams.
- Client Influence: Lead transformative AI solutions adopted by industry leaders.
- Remote Flexibility: Enjoy a fully remote role across the UK with autonomy.
- Competitive Compensation: Competitive agreed salary (up to £170K) with meaningful equity and growth opportunities.
If you’re excited to combine team-building, AI innovation, and enterprise value creation, we’d love to speak with you.
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