Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

<h2><strong>About Parloa</strong></h2> <p>Parloa’s mission is to make every customer conversation feel effortless for both customers and the companies serving them. As agentic AI accelerates, Parloans are shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience, one where customer support is no longer transactions, but meaningful exchanges. It is not just a vision; Parloa has powered over ONE BILLION interactions between global enterprise brands and their customers, with companies like Booking.com, HealthEquity, Allianz, SAP, BarmeniaGothaer, and TUI already deploying Parloa at scale.</p> <h2><strong>About the role:</strong></h2> <p>As a <strong>Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering </strong>at Parloa, you’ll be on the front lines of enterprise AI adoption — leading a high-impact team of FDEs that delivers our most strategic enterprise deployments. Your mission is to ensure our consistent deployment excellence: predictable delivery, strong engineering quality, and fast unblocking in complex enterprise environments — while staying technically credible yourself.</p> <p>FDEs are our in-field engineers. They build what doesn’t exist yet, adapt architecture to enterprise realities, and engineer integrations across systems and APIs to make deployments successful. As a Manager, you make that work repeatable and reliable across multiple customer projects — through strong delivery leadership, clear priorities, and hands-on technical guidance.</p> <h2><strong>Areas of ownership:</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Lead and develop the team:</strong> hire, coach, and grow a team of FDEs; set clear expectations; run 1:1s, feedback cycles, and performance development.</li> <li><strong>Own capacity planning and staffing:</strong> allocate engineers across parallel strategic projects, manage load and utilization, and a