Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
About Parloa
About Parloa
About the role
Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
Areas of ownership
Lead and develop the team
Own capacity planning and staffing
Drive project delivery management
Establish time tracking and delivery visibility
Provide technical leadership and escalation support
Create scalable field engineering practices
Shape the product via field learnings
Partner with customer engineering and enterprise stakeholders
Our Tech Stack
Who you are
Experience level
People leadership
Enterprise delivery track record
Technical breadth and depth
Hands-on effectiveness
Operational excellence
Customer-facing communication
confident and credible with customer engineering teams and senior technical stakeholders; clear written and verbal communication.
- Strong plus: experience building or integrating AI/LLM-powered systems (agent workflows, orchestration, evaluation, vector DBs, guardrails), ideally in forward-deployed or solutions engineering environments.
Our Recruiting Process
Why Parloa?
Why Parloa?
We're at the beginning of a new era in customer experience, one where AI doesn't just respond, but understands, reasons, and takes action. We're building agentic AI that enterprises trust with their most important customer moments: complex questions, high volumes, real stakes. When millions of people reach out to a brand, those interactions aren't just support tickets; they're defining experiences. We're here to raise the standard: making every conversation seamless, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. If you care about shaping how businesses and customers connect at scale and want your work to matter in real, everyday moments, this is where you do it. At Parloa, ownership isn't a buzzword; it means being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks. We operate in a category that's evolving fast, where the bar is high, and the problems are complex. We hire people who think in solutions, communicate with clarity, and follow through. People who are comfortable making decisions, taking responsibility, and raising the standard for themselves and those around them. We've grown beyond the earliest startup phase, but we've kept the intensity: fast execution, direct feedback, and a strong expectation to contribute meaningfully from day one. Backed by leading global investors like General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and Altimeter Capital, we're scaling with a clear ambition: to become the global category leader in enterprise-grade conversational AI.
Parloa is committed to upholding the highest data protection standards for our clients' and employees' data. All our employees are instrumental in ensuring the utmost care, GDPR, and ISO compliance, including ISO 27001, in handling sensitive information. Parloa is an e-verify employer in the USA. Please click here to learn more .
- We provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, disability status, socioeconomic background and other characteristics.
Not included in the source posting: benefits.
Skills
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