Head of Deployed Engineering

The role

The Head of Deployed Engineering will act as a player-coach building and scaling the FDE team. You will lead technical deployments, write production code, and act as a senior technical advisor to enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Lead important deployments and own technical delivery for large enterprise customers.
• Write production code to build agents, integrations and tools.
• Handle the hardest technical problems directly.
• Act as a trusted advisor to partners, CIOs and audit leaders.
• Hire, coach and grow the FDE team.
• Turn field work into playbooks, tools and metrics to make deployment repeatable.
• Work with Product and Engineering to turn field work into reusable platform features.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of leadership experience in forward deployed, deployment, solutions or customer engineering.
• Recent experience writing production software.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Comfort in front of senior enterprise stakeholders, especially in regulated or complex environments.
• Good judgment about building for one customer versus the platform.
• Ability to push back on scope when it matters.
• Excitement about bringing AI agents into high-stakes professional work.

Nice to have

• Experience at a Big 4 firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) or a major consulting firm such as Accenture, McKinsey, BCG or Bain.
• Knowledge of audit, accounting, risk or compliance.
• Experience deploying LLM or agent-based systems in production.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
• Flexible PTO
• 401k
• Wellness benefits starting on your first day
• Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
• Flexible work schedules

About the company

Fieldguide builds software for the people who enable trust between businesses by automating the work of advisory, audit, and tax practitioners. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.