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Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
Solutions · Full-time · San Francisco; New York; Remote
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Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
About the role
Were building a Forward Deployed Engineering team to close the gap between the value our enterprise customers expect from Cursor and the value theyre actually getting. FDEs dont advise, they embed directly with customer engineering teams, build production-grade Cursor workflows, and transfer the habits and culture that compound long after the engagement ends. The measure of success is whats different at day 30, not what got shipped.
Were looking for a Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering to lead and help scale this team. Youll manage a growing team of FDEs working across our most strategic enterprise accounts, own what makes a world-class FDE engagement, and stay close enough to the work to escalate, coach, and course-correct in real time. You will serve as the primary point of contact for customers, owning both project delivery and the day-to-day relationship, while also identifying and scoping new opportunities. Youll also build our partner FDE track - training and enabling GSI and consulting partners who extend this motion at scale.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines deep technical credibility, strong people management, and the judgment to keep engagements scoped tight, delivered fast, and worth repeating.
What you'll do
Sell
Own the full arc from technical discovery to executive close - partnering with Sales and Account teams to qualify opportunities, leading architecture reviews, surfacing integration complexity and infrastructure constraints, and scoping engagements with enough precision to de-risk delivery before a line of code is written
Build and present proposals that translate ambiguous customer problems into concrete, time-boxed deliverables with clear ROI
Sell the vision and the plan to C-suite stakeholders who need to believe in both the outcome and the team delivering it
Drive deal strategy on strategic accounts; your technical credibility is a direct lever on close rates for six- and seven-figure engagements
Deliver
Serve as executive technical sponsor on your regions highest-priority engagements and manage stakeholder relationships from IC engineers to C-suite
Ensure delivery quality across your teams projects: appropriate scoping, milestone tracking, technical standards, and clean handoffs to customer engineering teamsTranslate between business outcomes and technical implementation in both directions
Identify and escalate product gaps, integration friction, and recurring customer pain back to Product and Engineering with enough specificity to drive roadmap decisions
Manage active engagements: escalate on complex builds, coach FDEs on scoping and delivery decisions, and step in directly on accounts where the stakes are highest
Build reusable playbooks that make the broader FDE org more capable over time
Manage People
Lead, develop, and scale a team of 6-8 Forward Deployed Engineers working strategic FDE projects
Hire top-tier FDE talent; set clear expectations, technical performance standards, and career growth paths for a team where "excellent" means actually shipping in production
Coach FDEs through the hardest problems in the field - scoping under deal pressure, building alongside senior technical stakeholders, and knowing when to protect scope vs. when to flex
Build and scale the partner FDE track - train, enable, and hold the quality bar for GSI and consulting partners who carry the FDE motion forward at volume
You may be a fit if
You have 8+ years of experience leading technical teams that build and ship in production - Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a similar function where writing and reviewing code is part of the job
You have experience with software development and coding in Python, Javascript/Typescript
You've built and owned AI-native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and have debugged real-world model failures
You can diagnose a complex enterprise engineering environment quickly, identify the highest-leverage intervention, and scope a meaningful engagement
Youve built and scaled IC-level technical teams and know what excellence looks like in the field: sharp scoping, clean delivery, and knowledge that stays at the customer long after the engagement closes
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