Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineering, Americas (AI)

Location: Redwood City, California, United States. Travel to customer and hirify.global locations is required as needed.

Salary: $250,000–$350,000 USD annual base pay range.

Company

hirify.global is an enterprise AI application software company providing the C3 Agentic AI Platform, industry-specific SaaS applications, and generative AI offerings.

What you will do

• Lead and scale the Americas Forward Deployed Engineering organization, including multiple pods, 5–10 FDE Managers and senior technical leaders, and approximately 50–100 engineers.
• Own regional technical execution for designing, building, deploying, and scaling production-quality enterprise AI applications on the hirify.global Platform.
• Coach engineering managers, develop technical leaders, recruit high-performing engineers, and establish career and succession paths.
• Set the regional operating model for staffing, deployment, customer account coverage, prioritization, and organizational performance.
• Oversee customer delivery, technical risks, staffing, production readiness, escalations, and delivery commitments across concurrent engagements.
• Partner with Industry Solution Leaders, Sales, Product, Platform, Engineering, customers, and executives to turn customer requirements into scalable solutions and reusable product capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or another technical discipline.
• 12+ years of professional software engineering or highly technical product development experience.
• 7+ years leading highly technical engineering organizations, including engineering managers or other technical leaders.
• Experience building customer-facing engineering teams and delivering complex enterprise software into production.
• Strong knowledge of full-stack application development, distributed systems, data platforms, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software architecture.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future company sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Experience in forward-deployed, customer, solutions, or field engineering organizations.
• Hands-on experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, React, Angular, or Vue.
• Experience with AI/ML applications, enterprise data platforms, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability.
• Experience supporting enterprise customers in manufacturing, energy, utilities, high-tech, life sciences, financial services, or government.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with a generous equity plan.
• Benefits package provided by hirify.global.
• Equal opportunity and affirmative action workplace.
• Regular customer and company-site travel as required by the role.