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$240,000 – $300,000
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What this role is
Lead the building and scaling of a forward-deployed engineering organization that embeds directly with Vercel's strategic customers to architect and deliver production applications. This role suits someone with a track record of building customer-facing engineering teams from the ground up and the commercial savvy to define engagement models, pricing, and delivery excellence.
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What they ask for
Required
- 10+ years in software engineering, forward deployed engineering, or technical consulting
- 5+ years leading customer-facing engineering or delivery teams in high-growth environment
- Experience building a team or function from zero
- Proficiency in modern web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, cloud infrastructure)
- Experience building or deploying LLM-powered applications
- Commercial experience scoping, pricing, and delivering technical engagements to enterprise customers
- Demonstrated success embedding with customer engineering teams on complex production systems
Nice to have
- Experience with Vercel, Next.js, AI SDK, or v0
- Leadership experience with forward-deployed or embedded engineering teams at AI-native or developer platform companies
- Ownership of a professional services P&L or experience defining services pricing and packaging from scratch
- Comfort representing the function externally at conferences or customer briefings