Technical Lead Manager, FDE (AI)

Location: North Sydney, Australia

Company

hirify.global is a data and AI trust company focused on data resilience, data security posture management, and enabling secure AI adoption at scale.

What you will do

• Manage and grow a team of Forward Deployed Engineers through hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Own delivery across a portfolio of enterprise accounts, including planning, milestones, risks, timelines, workload allocation, and customer outcomes.
• Manage expectations with executive and technical stakeholders and establish clear operating rhythms for status updates, delivery tracking, and escalations.
• Review solution architecture, guide complex technical decisions, resolve escalations, and support deployments across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Set technical standards, reusable patterns, playbooks, tools, and automation that improve delivery quality and team effectiveness.
• Partner with Sales Engineering, Account Executives, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Professional Services on pursuits, escalations, roadmap feedback, and customer delivery.

Requirements

• 8–12+ years of experience in technical, customer-facing delivery roles such as forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, platform engineering, or technical consulting.
• Experience managing engineers or technical delivery teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Strong program and delivery management experience across multiple customer accounts, timelines, risks, and priorities.
• Technical depth in Kubernetes, containers, Linux, cloud platforms, hybrid environments, deployment infrastructure, and technical architecture.
• Ability to communicate with executives, business leaders, engineers, and internal teams while leading customer escalations.
• Working knowledge of data security, privacy, governance, or regulatory topics in enterprise environments, plus experience with AI-native tools and automation.

Nice to have

• Experience with DSPM, CSPM, DLP, data governance, privacy platforms, or related security domains.
• Experience leading forward-deployed, professional services, solutions delivery, or technical consulting teams at enterprise scale.
• Familiarity with GDPR, SOC 2, or ISO 27001 across multiple geographies.
• Experience with delivery or project management tools for multi-account programs and geographically distributed teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with enterprise customers and cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, and Professional Services.
• Contribute field learnings to product improvements and the development of the Forward Deployed Engineering organization.
• Operate in a high-growth, geographically distributed company serving customers worldwide.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and maintains confidential recruitment data processing.