Director of Forward Deployed Engineering Job at Data Idols (London)

Director, Forward Deployed Engineering

At Scale AI, we're not just building AI tools—we're pioneering the next era of e...

Location

United Kingdom , London

Salary:

Not provided

Scale

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience, including 3+ years leading high-performing customer-facing engineering teams (Forward Deployed, Solutions Engineering, Applied AI, or similar)
A solid engineering background. You've led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production, and you're still comfortable whiteboarding system architectures, reviewing code, and debugging production issues alongside your team
Proven ability to scale a delivery team. You've built hiring bars, onboarding programs, and operating standards for technical organizations, and you've interviewed and hired at volume for senior engineering roles
Hands-on fluency with the full AI stack. Deep familiarity with LLMs and agent systems, evaluation frameworks, backend and API design (Python or TypeScript), data systems (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, or similar), and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) including Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tooling
Experience deploying AI into complex enterprise environments, including navigating security reviews, identity/SSO, data residency, legacy integrations, and compliance requirements
A track record of turning field work into product leverage. You've codified repeatable patterns from customer engagements into tools, libraries, or platform features that scaled across the next wave of deployments
Strong cross-functional leadership. You've aligned Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and Customer Success around shared goals and delivered outcomes that required all of them to row in the same direction
Founder mindset. High autonomy, high motivation, high ownership. Comfortable operating with ambiguity, bias toward action, and the judgment to know when to ship and when to raise the bar
Exceptional communication. You can translate technical tradeoffs into decisions for executive and non-technical audiences, and model the customer empathy you expect from your team

Job Responsibility

Own delivery for our largest accounts. Lead end-to-end execution across our most strategic enterprise customers—scoping engagements, sequencing delivery, removing blockers, and making sharp trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality to drive production adoption
Lead and grow the team. Hire, develop, and retain a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers. Set the technical bar, establish hiring standards, and build onboarding and career frameworks that let the team scale without losing intensity
Provide holistic technical oversight. Maintain a deep working understanding of every layer of what we ship—agents, models, evaluations, backend services, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure—so you can review architectures, debug production issues, and raise the quality bar across every engagement
Partner with Product and core Engineering. Work closely with Forward Deployed, Product, and Platform teams to ensure we ship efficiently. Identify patterns across engagements and codify them into reusable platform capabilities, playbooks, and building blocks that make the next deployment faster than the last
Engage directly with customer leadership. Forge trusted relationships with senior stakeholders at Fortune 500 customers. Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete technical roadmaps with measurable outcomes, and represent Scale at the executive level
Enforce production excellence. Set and hold the standard for reliability, security, observability, and evaluation across deployed agents—making sure the systems we ship are genuinely enterprise-ready, not just demo-ready
Drive the feedback loop into product. Translate field insights into sharp, actionable input for Product and Research, influencing model choices, platform features, and roadmap priorities
Operate with founder mindset. Own outcomes without waiting to be asked. Move with urgency in ambiguous environments. Make sound calls under pressure and model the calm, focus, and judgment the team needs when stakes are high

Fulltime

Director of Product Management, Forward Deployed & Strategy

Lead a high-stakes team of Product Managers responsible for successful delivery ...

Location

United States , New York

Salary:

Not provided

Scale

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

10+ years of product leadership, including 4+ years managing Product Management teams
Experience in forward-deployed models or top-tier technical consulting / implementation
High technical IQ: comfort with APIs, data pipelines, SQL
understands how data quality affects model performance
Extreme ownership + systems thinking
navigates complex stakeholder landscapes from engineers to C-suite

Job Responsibility

Hire, mentor, and deploy PMs across strategic accounts (e.g., Fortune 100, government)
Identify patterns across deployments
decide which bespoke solutions should move from custom to core product
Primary product partner to Sales/GTM leadership to align roadmap with market demand
Provide strategic + technical oversight to unblock high-priority deployments in 'red zones'
Champion the voice of the field within internal EPD teams

Fulltime

Legal Engineer - Forward Deployed

As a Forward Deployed Legal Engineer at Norm Ai, you’ll operate at the intersect...

Location

United States , New York City

Salary:

175000.00 - 225000.00 USD / Year

Norm AI

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Juris Doctor (JD) required
2-4 years of legal or compliance experience in BigLaw, regulatory, or highly regulated industry environments
Strong understanding of how businesses operationalize regulatory and compliance obligations
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Technical curiosity and comfort working with AI or legal technology tools
Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, with exceptional project management and organizational skills

Job Responsibility

Partner with Account Directors to lead discovery conversations, map client pain points to Norm Ai’s solutions, and design compelling demos and proof-of-concept engagements
Serve as the legal and regulatory voice in pre-sales discussions, contextualizing how Norm Ai’s AI platform addresses compliance and regulatory workflows
Develop tailored presentations, prototypes, and collateral that align with industry-specific regulations and client needs
Translate client feedback and engagement insights into actionable guidance for product and go-to-market teams
Support product launches and go-to-market campaigns by contributing legal and regulatory perspectives
Create thought leadership materials, webinars, and case studies demonstrating the application of Norm Ai’s technology to real-world compliance challenges
Partner with marketing and client engagement to position Norm Ai as a trusted authority on AI-driven compliance automation
Work cross-functionally with Product and AI Engineering to translate field learnings into product improvements and roadmap priorities
Act as a trusted internal advisor, educating Norm Ai teams on emerging regulatory trends and client expectations
Ensure seamless handoff from sales to deployment, setting clients up for long-term success

What we offer

Equity compensation
401(k) plan with an employer match
Top-tier insurance coverage, encompassing health, dental, hospital, accident, and vision plans
Relocation reimbursement for candidates needing to relocate to NYC
Fast-paced learning environment where professional growth is constant

Fulltime

Senior Director, Centre of Excellence

In this role, you will define, build, and scale a global Centre of Excellence (C...

Location

France; United Kingdom , Nantes; Paris; London

Salary:

Not provided

Akeneo

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

You have +12 years of experience in consulting and/or engineering roles
You have a proven history of leading high-impact customer projects, delivering solutions in production environments with high business impact
You have a solid background in modern SaaS platforms, APIs, integrations, data systems, and enterprise architectures
You have extensive experience in managing and scaling international teams and leading them through change
You have excellent communication skills with the ability to influence C-suite stakeholders and align internal teams, from R&D to Go-To-Market
You speak English fluently

Job Responsibility

Define and own the vision, charter, and operating model of the CoE
Build, lead, and scale a global team combining PXM experts and Forward Deployed Engineers
Ensure premium accounts receive differentiated, high‑impact engagements aligned with product strategy
Establish clear intake, prioritization, and engagement models for CoE involvement
Partner tightly with Product leadership to influence roadmap, prioritization, and platform evolution
Codify PXM best practices, architectures, and methodologies into reusable standards and assets
Act as executive sponsor for the most complex and strategic customer engagements
Guide go‑to‑market teams on when and how to leverage the CoE for maximum impact
Ensure CoE efforts remain scalable and product‑aligned, avoiding bespoke or non‑repeatable work
Represent customer and field insights in executive and company‑wide forums

What we offer

Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours, and a hybrid setup allowing 3-4 days working from home and option to Work from Anywhere for up to 30 days per year
UK: Enjoy 25 days of annual leave
France: Enjoy 34 days of annual leave and RTTs
UK: Enjoy a £450 budget to enhance your home office and an £80 monthly sustainable transportation allowance for eco-friendly commuting
France: Enjoy a €500 budget to enhance your home office. 50% discount on the public transportation pass of your choice or a €45/month Sustainable Transportation Allowance to support eco-friendly commuting
France only: Get your 50% employer-funded Swile card and benefit from €9,5 worth of meal vouchers per working day
UK: Benefit from 26 weeks of paid maternity leave, 4 weeks of paid leave for the second parent, and up to 20 weeks of fully paid shared parental leave. A gradual return to work program is also available
France: Benefit from 16 weeks of paid maternity leave, 4 weeks of paid leave for the second parent
Engage in 2 paid volunteering days annually and join Employee Resource Groups dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion within the company
Access a £1,000/€1,000 annual budget for personal professional development and take advantage of career paths, internal mobility opportunities, and a "Women in Leadership Programme"

Fulltime

Director, Generative AI Experience Engineering

At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and scie...

Location

United Kingdom , London

Salary:

Not provided

AKQA

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Advanced React and Next.js architecture
Server Components, streaming UX and edge rendering
Component systems and frontend orchestration
Experience across modern AI ecosystems including OpenAI, Gemini, Claude and OSS models
RAG pipelines, vector databases, embeddings and chunking
Tool calling, agentic systems, orchestration and memory frameworks
Prompt engineering, prompt management and context engineering
AI observability, evaluations, governance and guardrails
AI-assisted development tooling including Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
Prompt-driven engineering and AI pair-programming workflows

Job Responsibility

Lead the design and architecture of AI-native experience platforms, from frontend rendering systems through to retrieval, orchestration and agentic workflows
Remain hands-on with engineering teams, contributing to prototypes, proof-of-concepts and production acceleration across emerging AI-enabled products and services
Manage and mentor a team of developers whilst driving engineering quality, technical direction and delivery standards
Build and shape AI-native customer experiences driven by intent, contextual generation, retrieval and adaptive orchestration
Work across modern LLM ecosystems including foundation models, retrieval pipelines, vector storage, embeddings, multi-agent systems and AI observability tooling
Design systems that support conversational rendering, dynamic content assembly, streaming UX and adaptive interfaces
Actively experiment with AI tooling, workflows and engineering methodologies, bringing forward-thinking ideas into production environments
Work directly with senior client stakeholders to shape AI transformation conversations, technical strategy and engineering roadmaps
Lead discovery sessions, workshops and architecture discussions, translating technical complexity into commercial and customer experience value
Act as the engineering authority within client engagements, confidently communicating what is technically viable, scalable and strategically valuable

Director, Generative AI Experience Engineering (EMEA)

At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and scie...

Location

United Kingdom; France , London; Paris

Salary:

Not provided

AKQA

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Strong experience across modern frontend engineering and AI-native architecture, with the ability to design and deliver scalable, production-ready systems
Advanced React and Next.js architecture
Server Components, streaming UX and edge rendering
Component systems and frontend orchestration
Experience across modern AI ecosystems including OpenAI, Gemini, Claude and OSS models
RAG pipelines, vector databases, embeddings and chunking
Tool calling, agentic systems, orchestration and memory frameworks
Prompt engineering, prompt management and context engineering
AI observability, evaluations, governance and guardrails
AI-assisted development tooling including Claude Code, Cursor and Codex

Job Responsibility

Lead the design and architecture of AI-native experience platforms, from frontend rendering systems through to retrieval, orchestration and agentic workflows
Remain hands-on with engineering teams, contributing to prototypes, proof-of-concepts and production acceleration across emerging AI-enabled products and services
Manage and mentor a team of developers whilst driving engineering quality, technical direction and delivery standards
Build and shape AI-native customer experiences driven by intent, contextual generation, retrieval and adaptive orchestration
Work across modern LLM ecosystems including foundation models, retrieval pipelines, vector storage, embeddings, multi-agent systems and AI observability tooling
Design systems that support conversational rendering, dynamic content assembly, streaming UX and adaptive interfaces
Actively experiment with AI tooling, workflows and engineering methodologies, bringing forward-thinking ideas into production environments
Work directly with senior client stakeholders to shape AI transformation conversations, technical strategy and engineering roadmaps
Lead discovery sessions, workshops and architecture discussions, translating technical complexity into commercial and customer experience value
Act as the engineering authority within client engagements, confidently communicating what is technically viable, scalable and strategically valuable

Fulltime

Head of Applied AI & Agent Factory - Managing Director

Location

United States , New York

Salary:

250000.00 - 500000.00 USD / Year

Citi

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

15+ years of progressive leadership experience, including senior roles building and scaling delivery organizations - consulting partnerships, Forward Deployed Engineering / solutions engineering teams, or comparable in-business technology delivery functions inside complex firms.
Builder-operator profile — has personally stood up and scaled delivery organizations from a small core to hundreds of practitioners, ideally inside or alongside large, regulated businesses.
Deep current expertise in modern AI - agentic systems, LLM-based applications, AI evaluation and certification, and the practical realities of getting AI agents adopted in production enterprise environments.
Strong commercial and storytelling skills - credible peer to business COOs and CEOs
able to co-design process redesigns and to sell the change rather than impose it.
Bias to action, ruthlessly outcome-focused - relentless on real adoption, usage, and business impact rather than activity metrics
comfortable killing projects that aren't landing.
Cross-functional influencer - proven ability to operate in a matrixed environment across product, platform, controls, and business stakeholders without direct authority over all of them.
Strong financial acumen - fluent in business cases, ROI realization, and the commercial drivers of a complex global firm.
Risk & Compliance awareness - understands controls, model risk, and regulatory expectations as they apply to AI agents in global banking.

Job Responsibility

Operate the Agent Factory: an industrialized capability for the design, build, evaluation, and certification of enterprise AI agents at Citi scale.
Define and continuously evolve the firm's standards, patterns, and reference implementations for enterprise agents in close partnership with the Head of Core AI Platform (who provides the agentic runtime, guardrails, and evals) and the Head of Responsible AI (who owns approval and controls).
Own the official enterprise agent catalog - the curated, certified set of agents that Citi formally sanctions for production use across the firm - including lifecycle management, versioning, and decommissioning.
Build and lead a cadre of Applied AI engineers embedded directly into business lines, partnering with business COOs and process owners to design, deliver, and scale AI agents inside real workflows.
Co-design agent-led process redesigns with business COOs - moving beyond point automations to the redesign of end-to-end business processes around AI agents.
Operate a deliberate 'delivery-to-platform' feedback loop: ensure reusable assets, patterns, and components emerging from business-specific work are fed back into the Core AI Platform and Enterprise AI Solutions portfolio rather than re-built.
Partner with the Head of Enterprise AI Solutions to graduate high-leverage, repeatedly built business solutions into productized, horizontal capabilities.

What we offer

Medical, dental & vision coverage
401(k)
Life, accident, and disability insurance
Wellness programs
Paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays

Fulltime

Director, Business Development

Redwire Space is a rapidly growing aerospace and defense company advancing new s...

Location

United States , Los Angeles/El Segundo

Salary:

215371.00 - 240000.00 USD / Year

Redwire Space

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or higher, preferably in a technical, business, or strategic discipline
16+ years (14+ years with a Master's degree) of experience in a Business Development or similar position, preferably as a hunter - growing the business
5+ years of experience in space systems, defense acquisition, or aerospace business development
10+ preferred
Direct experience engaging with Space Systems Command (SSC), particularly in LA / El Segundo
Strong existing network across SSC decision-makers and regional Primes
Successful track record of identifying and qualifying opportunities >$10M total contract value
Familiarity with DoW and USSF acquisition processes, FAR/DFARS, and industry BD pipelines
Active Secret clearance required
TS/SCI strongly preferred

Job Responsibility

Own the full front-end business development lifecycle in the LA/El Segundo market—including new opportunity identification, early qualification, and opportunity shaping
Build and expand relationships across Space Systems Command (SSC), including SPOs, program offices, contracting teams, supply chain leaders, and other key influencers
Represent a broad set of technologies including GEO Dynamic Space Operations spacecraft, Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) spacecraft, & supporting products such as launch interfaces, deployable antennas/structures, & power solutions
Develop and maintain strong working relationships with major Primes in the region (e.g., Northrop Grumman, Boeing/ Millenium Space Systems, Lockheed Martin, RTX, and emerging space players – Anduril, etc)
Maintain a forward-looking understanding of SSC and Prime contractor roadmaps, acquisition strategies, and long-term technology priorities
Drive the pipeline by sourcing new programs, contract vehicles, and technology insertion opportunities aligned with company capabilities
Lead gate-reviews for early-stage pursuits and support development of capture strategies
Provide intel on competitive landscape, customer hot buttons, and teaming opportunities
Represent the company at key industry events, forums, and customer engagements locally and nationally
Work closely with Capture, Engineering, and Executive Leadership to ensure opportunities are aligned with strategic priorities and executable

What we offer

highly competitive benefits package
commitment to core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence

Fulltime

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