Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
clera · 5 hours ago
About the Role
As a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will connect an AI-powered operations platform with customers' day-to-day workflows in the consumer packaged goods sector. You will own implementations from initial discovery through go-live, helping customers improve how they manage wholesale operations while bringing field insights back to the product team.
What You'll Do
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Lead customer onboarding end to end, including discovery, integration, configuration, testing, and go-live.
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Work directly with operations teams to map purchase-order-to-cash workflows and configure the platform to meet their needs.
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Build and troubleshoot integrations involving EDI, ERP, inventory, accounting, and freight systems.
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Turn complex operational requirements into clear data models, configurations, and product capabilities.
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Share customer insights with engineering and help shape product improvements.
What We're Looking For
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At least 3 years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, implementation engineering, technical onboarding, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
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Experience owning customer onboarding from discovery through integration, configuration, testing, and launch.
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Strong working knowledge of APIs, data models, SQL, and integration debugging, with the ability to read and write code.
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Hands-on experience integrating EDI, ERP, inventory, accounting, and freight systems.
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Experience mapping purchase-order-to-cash workflows and translating operational needs into technical configurations.
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CPG, supply chain, logistics, or ERP experience is a plus. Comfort with ambiguity, changing needs, and hands-on customer problem solving is important.
Compensation & Benefits
Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Location
This is an on-site role based in New York, United States.