Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, Replit

• This role requires strong technical depth, product instincts, customer judgment, and the ability to operate at high velocity in ambiguous environments
• 12+ years of experience in engineering, infrastructure, developer tools, applied AI, or customer engineering environments
• Experience leading Forward Deployed Engineering, Applied AI, Solutions Architecture, or Strategic Engineering teams
• Deep curiosity around AI-native software development and strong instincts for how AI changes engineering workflows
• Experience leading high-performing technical organizations
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to operate credibly with senior engineers and executives
• Experience building and shipping production systems in fast-moving environments
• Strong product instincts and systems thinking
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and minimal process
• Excellent communication and customer leadership skills
• Strong sense of ownership and urgency

Desirable

• 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
• This is not a traditional solutions engineering or post-sales role. Forward Deployed Engineers at Replit are software engineers who work directly with customers to build production systems, deploy AI-native workflows, and turn customer problems into reusable platform capabilities
• This team should be among the most advanced users of Replit and AI-native development workflows inside the company. We expect Forward Deployed Engineers to aggressively use AI agents, automation, and Replit itself to increase leverage and accelerate customer outcomes
• 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
• Success in this role looks like:
• Strategic customers successfully deploying Replit into production environments
• Faster customer time-to-value and expansion across enterprise accounts
• Repeatable deployment patterns becoming reusable platform capabilities
• Increased enterprise adoption of AI-native development workflows
• A high-talent-density FDE organization operating with speed, ownership, and strong customer impact