About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take charge of enterprise client projects from the first discovery sessions through launch, pairing hands-on technical work with senior-level project leadership. The position combines solution delivery, stakeholder communication and time at client sites, and turns field experience into more repeatable ways of working.
What you'll do
- Lead a major client project from start to finish, managing planning, milestones, schedules and regular updates to executives.
- Run discovery with senior leaders and day-to-day operators to map how they work, understand their information and exceptions, and set scope, priorities and measures of success.
- Partner with founders and engineers to deploy, extend and improve the core platform.
- Write code, build integrations and early prototypes using client information, and troubleshoot complex enterprise environments to test ideas fast.
- Guide each deployment from kickoff through launch, user training and adoption, with on-site presence at the client early in each project.
- Convert lessons from the field into reusable templates, tooling and stronger delivery practices that scale to future clients.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Roughly 4 to 10 years across software development and technical client-facing delivery.
- A degree in computer science or a related engineering field, or hands-on experience in a technical role such as engineering, solutions or data.
- Background at a startup, a leading technology firm or a top-tier consulting firm.
- Proven record of personally driving a complex client implementation, including updating executives, negotiating scope tradeoffs and delivering difficult messages.
- Strong command of software systems, APIs and data, able to dig into client information and plan integration work alongside engineers.
- Experience writing and releasing software yourself, in Python, TypeScript or a comparable language.
- Confidence presenting to senior leaders and making progress amid ambiguous requirements and imperfect data.
- Availability for client-site travel during the opening weeks of each project.
- Living in, or ready to relocate to, the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City for in-person work.
Bonus points
- Experience shipping production-grade code.
- Experience in a forward-deployed or client-embedded engineering role.
- Familiarity with older enterprise systems and widely used cloud or data platforms.
- Past experience as a founder or founding engineer.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 150,000 to 210,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States or New York City, United States
- On-site
- Regular travel to client sites
- Full-time
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