Founding Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
Core
Lead a forward-deployed engineering team embedding with enterprise grocery customers to integrate AI systems, harden solutions into the platform, and drive technical delivery.
Role type
Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering (Player-Coach)
Builds
Enterprise AI solutions for grocery partners (Albertsons, Meijer, Wakefern) and platform features
Domain
Grocery retail, AI/ML, Enterprise Software
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Software engineering, solutions architecture, team leadership (0-1 build), executive presence, data modeling, SQL, cloud data platforms (Databricks/BigQuery/Snowflake), production AI/LLM experience, enterprise delivery
Preferred skills
Grocery/retail/supply chain data, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, vendor-hosted vs customer-cloud delivery
Technologies
SQL, Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake
Responsibilities
Hire and develop forward-deployed engineers; lead execution across concurrent customer engagements; own technical relationships with customer engineering leaders; define reference architectures and production standards; translate business goals into scoped AI programs; travel 25-40% to customer sites
Seniority
Senior Manager, hands-on IC with leadership focus
