Forward Deployed Engineer

Clera

$100K — $150K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role
  • Strong understanding of complex product capabilities and market positioning
  • Experience with workflow automation and process design
  • Exceptional empathy and communication skills with customers
  • Proven ability to identify patterns in customer feedback

Responsibilities

  • Coach AI agents on product positioning and buyer personas
  • Act as the voice of the customer to influence product development
  • Manage customer relationships from onboarding to ongoing success
  • Design workflows to automate repetitive tasks for efficiency
  • Collaborate with the CTO to integrate customer feedback into product features

Benefits

  • Opportunity to impact company growth in an early-stage role
  • Collaborative work environment with strong emphasis on team integration
  • Direct engagement with leadership to shape product strategy
  • Focus on innovation through automation and process improvement
  • Unique chance to build customer relationships from the ground up
Full Job Description
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

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