Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

Lead and Develop the Team

• Own team health and culture across the four FDE profiles (Advisory, Builder, Operating, Support): a safe space where hard questions are welcome and engineers share patterns instead of working in silos.

• Run strong 1:1s and career conversations so every FDE knows where they stand and how to grow.

• Build the hiring and onboarding pipeline for a remote-first, async-heavy team.

• Clear blockers fast, and escalate the ones you can’t resolve before they become delivery risks.

What you bring to the team

• Experience leading customer-facing engineering, professional services, or delivery teams in enterprise software, AI, or infrastructure.

• Strong coaching instincts: you develop engineers and build high-trust teams.

• Technical depth to hold the bar: RAG (retrieval, embeddings, re-ranking, evaluation), cloud and self-hosted deployments, model optimization, APIs, integrations, and IAM/security fundamentals.

• Commercial awareness: you understand how scope, staffing, and execution affect utilization, revenue, and margin.

• Clear, written and verbal communication with technical and executive audiences, and comfort with ambiguity in a remote-first setup.

Nice to have

• Experience running services or delivery inside a SaaS or platform company navigating the move to enterprise and self-hosted deployments.

• Experience with OKR frameworks and squad-based delivery organizations.

• Familiarity with agent-based systems, LLM platforms, and AI-native engineering tooling-

Benefits

• Remote-first setup with flexible hours & tech of your choice

• 30 days vacation + extra days for family sick leave

• Competitive salary & stock options for every team member

• Monthly sports & mental health support allowance with Oliva

• Annual learning & development budget

• Monthly team socials & in-person meetups

• Dog-friendly Berlin HQ