Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

We’re looking for a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead the team responsible for helping our most strategic enterprise customers operationalize Replit inside their organizations. Reporting to the President and Head of AI, you’ll lead a team operating at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer transformation. Your team will embed deeply with customers, solve hard technical problems, build production systems, and help define how enterprises adopt AI-native software development.

Hire and develop a high-talent-density team of Forward Deployed Engineers

Define the hiring bar, operating principles, and execution standards for the organization

Build a team culture centered around speed, ownership, pragmatism, and customer impact

Create systems and tooling that allow the team to scale without becoming process-heavy

Partner with engineering leaders, product teams, and executives at some of Replit’s largest enterprise customers

Help customers redesign workflows around AI-native software development

Lead complex technical engagements involving integrations, infrastructure, agents, automation, and internal developer platforms

Unblock high-stakes deployments and help customers move from experimentation to production adoption

Lead teams building real applications and workflows directly inside customer environments

Drive rapid prototyping and iteration cycles with customers

Jump into architecture reviews, debugging sessions, implementation strategy, or live builds when needed

Identify repeatable customer implementation patterns and turn them into reusable platform capabilities

Partner closely with Product and Engineering to upstream learnings from customer deployments into the core platform

Contribute production-ready code, tooling, integrations, and reference architectures that improve enterprise adoption at scale

Create tight feedback loops between customer environments and Replit’s internal product development teams

Partner closely with Sales, Field Engineering, and Product on strategic accounts

Improve customer adoption, expansion, retention, and deployment velocity

Act as an executive escalation point for critical customer situations

Help define how Replit scales enterprise adoption globally