As Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, you'll inherit and lead a growing team of Forward Deployed Engineers while building the operating model for the next stage of scale. You'll establish how the organization hires, executes, prioritizes, and measures success, while remaining hands-on with our most strategic customer engagements
You'll partner closely with the executive team on enterprise strategy, product direction, and high-impact technical initiatives across the business
Forward Deployed Engineering owns how Tavily shows up technically in the field. The function sits at the intersection of enterprise customers, Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and strategic initiatives across the business
Its charter is to lead the technical execution of Tavily's most strategic customer initiatives—from discovery and POCs through production rollout and expansion—serving as the company's senior technical force for the highest-impact opportunities in the field
You're welcome to work remotely from within the United States, with regular presence in New York City as needed
Define and evolve the FDE organization's vision, operating model, execution playbooks, resourcing strategy, and quarterly priorities
Lead, mentor, and scale an existing team of Forward Deployed Engineers by raising the bar for hiring, technical excellence, execution, and customer impact
Own the technical strategy for Tavily's most strategic enterprise accounts, from discovery and solution design through POCs, production rollout, and expansion
Partner closely with Sales and Customer Success to shape technical strategy for strategic accounts, accelerate enterprise adoption, and drive expansion opportunities
Serve as the senior technical voice with executive stakeholders, including CTOs, VPs of Engineering, founders, and technical decision-makers
Stay hands-on by leading strategic customer engagements and building reference implementations, retrieval pipelines, agentic systems, production integrations, and technical prototypes on the Tavily API
Support select high-impact technical initiatives where senior field expertise is needed, including strategic customer, product, or partner-facing work
Build scalable internal assets, including playbooks, demo environments, documentation, reference architectures, tooling, and reusable templates
Synthesize customer patterns and technical feedback into clear product and engineering roadmap recommendations
Represent Tavily externally in executive customer conversations, strategic engagements, developer communities, conferences, and technical content