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Forward Deployed Engineer

Clera
2 days ago
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States

About the Role

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to be an early non-founder hire, owning every customer relationship and building the playbook for scaling from an early customer base to thousands. We seek a technical, customer-facing individual who understands product positioning and instinctively automates repetitive tasks.

What You'll Do

  • Coach AI agents on product positioning, buyer personas, and pricing conversations

  • Serve as the voice of the customer, identifying common requests and patterns in customer interactions to inform product development

  • Own customer relationships end-to-end, from onboarding through ensuring success and optimizing their experience

  • Automate manual and repetitive tasks by building workflows and systems to help the customer engineering function scale

  • Work directly with the CTO to translate customer feedback into shipped product features

What We're Looking For

  • Technical aptitude with ability to understand and explain complex product capabilities

  • Strong customer empathy and communication skills

  • Comfort with process automation and workflow design

  • Ability to identify patterns and drive systematic improvements

  • Collaborative mindset to work across engineering and customer-facing teams