Manager of Forward Deployed Engineering, HackerRank
$225-250k
This range doesn’t include bonuses or stock options for which you will be eligible
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Assesses developer skills for tech recruiters
Job no longer available
Assesses developer skills for tech recruiters
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$225-250k
This range doesn’t include bonuses or stock options for which you will be eligible
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Accelerate the world's innovation.
Role
Who you are
- A seasoned technical leader with 8+ years in engineering, solutions engineering, or technical delivery, and 2+ years leading high-performing technical teams
- Obsessed with operating alongside the team, reviewing designs, challenging assumptions, and stepping in when problems get ambiguous or high-stakes
- Highly experienced in leading customer-facing technical teams where success depends on credibility, clarity, and execution, not scripts or handoffs
- Fluent across engineering and business contexts, you can debate architecture with engineers and align outcomes with sales, product, and customer leaders
- Excellent presenter and communicator who can modulate the message across both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Technical Consultant
- You enjoy building teams, systems, and standards from the ground up
- Ambiguity energizes you, especially in fast-moving environments
- You hold high standards for ownership and quality, with a bias toward action and urgency
Desirable
- Background in developer tools, HR tech, or API-first SaaS platforms
- Experience working in globally distributed or matrixed teams
What the job involves
- HackerRank is scaling its Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function globally. We are hiring a Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering (Global) to set the strategy, standards, and execution bar for this team
- This is a hands-on leadership role. You will lead the global FDE function, directly manage FDEs in the U.S., and partner closely with regional GMs in EMEA and APAC
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of FDEs that lead customer engagements (pre- and post-sales) to define and deliver solutions
- Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to shape solutions that solve real customer problems
- Work with Product and Engineering to incorporate customer-specific solutions into the product roadmap
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across APIs, integrations, and platform capabilities
- Elevate how we run demos, proofs of concept, and onsite engagements
- Build repeatable playbooks, delivery standards, and best practices to move fast at scale
Our take
Recruiting high quality engineers is a difficult process dominated by uncertainty. Quantifying the skills a candidate should have and then measuring them takes valuable time away from existing employees. HackerRank mitigates this by providing a platform for companies to hire and engineers with the right skills for them, facilitating a more efficient hiring process.
To increase the consistency of technical assessments they provide online coding tests and a platform for running technical screen interviews. These tools decrease the time to hire and help interviewers spot candidates whose CVs may have been overlooked. The platform has seen significant success, and major customers include Goldman Sachs, Wish and Snap.
Over the last few years, HackerRank has released an AI-powered insights product that delivers personalised recommendations on a companies hiring process to help them hire better, as well as a plagiarism detection tool to increase fairness in developer hiring. Impressive 2022 funding secured also means the company can continue to focus on accelerating the drive for technical hiring.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2022
$60m
SERIES D
Feb 2018
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $117.9m
Company benefits
- Every HackerRanker gets a MacBook Pro, monitor, mouse, and keyboard
- We invest in your professional development and provide annual funding for L&D courses
- Your well-being is our top priority. We offer access to numerous mental health resources throughout the year
- Bring your besties to HackerRank – and get paid when they join the team
- We offer comprehensive health plans and cover 100% of premiums for some plans
- You have the chance to share ownership of the company with employee stock options
- Wherever you’re located, we have programs to help you prepare for retirement
- We offer special benefits to ensure you’re engaged and set up for success while working remotely
- Need a new office chair? We offer a monthly stipend to support the tech setup of your choice
- We offer generous PTO plans for you to rest or treat yourself to the vacation of your dreams
- Work from home, the beach, or wherever you’re most productive as long as your tasks get done
- Enjoy company-wide days off and Limited Meeting Fridays to relax and recharge
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Vivek Ravisankar
(CEO)Graduated from NIT Trinchy. Spent a year at Amazon as a Software Engineer.
Hari Karunanidhi
(CTO)Completed a Computer Science degree at NIT Trichy then worked at IBM as a software engineer for a year.
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