Forward Deployed Builder, Ema
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Universal AI employee
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Universal AI employee
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the next-generation AI technology to empower every employee in the enterprise to be their most creative and productive.
Role
Who you are
- “The ideal forward deployed builder is a composite. Not a software engineer, not a product manager, not a solutions architect or a salesperson — but able to draw on any of these to solve the customer’s problems, in the customer’s building, on the customer’s timeline, against the customer’s data.”
- We don’t care about a rigid list of years and titles. We care that you’re:
- Technical enough to write some code and use our agentic platform to build a real demo - not just talk about one
- Persuasive enough to read an audience and weave a captivating story that ties their pain points to Ema’s value proposition
- Product-minded enough to look at a chaotic business process and see the beautiful, streamlined agentic flow hiding inside it
- AI-first enough in your day-to-day to drive the impact of ten people — putting agents to work instead of grinding harder
- Most people are strong in one of these. The rare ones are formidable in all four — or hungry enough to become so. That’s who we’re looking for
- The Management Consultant who wrote code at some point in their life, misses building things, and wants to step into the agentic world for real
- The Product Manager who’s tired of owning a sliver and wants to live the entire journey of solving a user’s problem - from the first sales conversation all the way to adoption
- The Engineer who’s ready to leave the safety of a Jira backlog and learn to navigate the chaos of a live agentic transformation
- The Ex-Founder who’s shelved the startup for now and wants to keep their edge sharp - craving operational freedom in an entrepreneurial environment
- The Wildcard who fits none of the above, but has both the burning passion and the proven skill to deliver. If that’s you, make your case
What the job involves
- Ema is building the Universal Agentic Control Plane — the layer where enterprises turn messy, human-run business processes into AI Employees that actually do the work. The platform is powerful. The bottleneck is people who can walk into a customer’s world, see what should be automated, and make it real
- We’re looking for a Forward Deployed Builder to embed inside our customers and partners, find the highest-value opportunities for agentic automation, solution them, build the demo, win the deal, and then stay to implement it in production
- You go in alone, Rambo in the jungle, armed with your wits, your skills, and the most powerful agentic platform on the market. We’ll train you hard before you deploy. After that, the territory is yours
- This is not a support role behind an account team. You are the account team, the solutions architect, and the builder, compressed into one person on the ground. Very few people in the world are doing this today. You’d be among the first
- Hunt for the work worth doing. Sit inside the customer’s operation, learn how they really run, and identify the processes where agentic automation creates outsized value — the ones everyone lives with but no one has fixed
- Solution it. Take a tangled, real-world business process and design it into a clean, streamlined agentic flow on Ema. You’ll make the architecture calls: which agents, which integrations, where a human stays in the loop
- Build the demo. Get your hands dirty and actually build a working demo — a proof that makes the value undeniable. For partner deployments, that demo becomes their showcase to their customers, so it has to be sharp
- Win the technical conversation. Read the room in the moment that matters, own every technical objection, and prove the thing works. You’re the one who makes the solution undeniable — that’s how the deal gets won
- Implement it. Turn the won deal into a live, production agentic workflow the customer trusts and adopts. You own the outcome from first conversation to real usage — not a slide, not a pilot that dies, but something running
- Agentic AI is the biggest shift in enterprise software in a generation, and the playbook for deploying it is being written right now — by a handful of people. This is your shot to be one of them: to build the muscle, own real outcomes at real companies across two continents, and come out the other side as one of the most capable operators in the agentic world
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Ema is looking to empower enterprises with universal AI employees. Essentially, these are AI agents built to support the work of other employees by taking on the most repetitive tasks - leaving real people to be more creative and productive.
As the use of automation explodes, businesses need ways to be more efficient and innovative in order to remain competitive. Ema supports this on both ends by taking away the work that can bog down employees and speeding up this work in the process.
Having raised substantial funds, the company is looking to further develop its proprietary tech that powers the AI employees. Ultimately, the agents will be configurable by enterprises so clients can fine-tune them to their needs, and employ them in any role in their organisation.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2026
$14m
SERIES A
Jul 2024
$36m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Surojit Chatterjee
(Co-Founder & CEO)Member of the Board of Directors at Meesho. Former Executive in Residence at Andreessen Horowitz, CPO at Coinbase, Board Member at Olive and VP at Google.
Souvik Sen
(Co-Founder & CTO)Was VP of Engineering at Okta and Engineering Lead (Data and ML, Privacy and Safety) at Google. They also worked as a Principal Research Scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
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