Senior Manager, Deployed Engineering

San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA) · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of advisory, audit, and tax practitioners at the world's largest CPA firms. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We’re headquartered in San Francisco, CA and backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.
We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.
As a growth stage startup employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by eliminating up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.

Our forward deployed engineers (FDEs) work alongside practitioners at the world's largest audit firms to build prototype agents on real workflows and ship production code.
The Senior Manager, Deployed Engineering role starts as a player-coach position where you will be hands-on with customer deployments, write production code, and build and lead the team around you.
As the team grows, your focus will move toward leadership while staying close to the work, reporting directly to the CTO/co-founder.

Lead important deployments yourself and own technical delivery for some of our largest enterprise customers, from scoping through production.
Handle single-tenant and government-cloud environments, regulated data, and audit methods that differ from firm to firm.
Write production code, build agents, integrations and tools alongside the team, and handle the hardest technical problems directly.
Be the senior technical voice with customers, acting as a trusted advisor to partners, CIOs and audit leaders on how AI agents fit their practice.
Build the FDE team by hiring, coaching, and growing strong engineers who can both build and work directly with customers.
Make deployment repeatable by turning what you learn from hands-on work into playbooks, tools and metrics that speed up time-to-value.
Turn field work into product by spotting patterns across deployments and working with Product and Engineering so solutions become reusable platform features.

5+ years of leadership experience in forward deployed, deployment, solutions or customer engineering.
You've written production software recently and want to keep doing it.
Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and excitement about building a team from an early stage.
Comfort in front of senior enterprise stakeholders, especially in regulated or complex environments.
Good judgment about building for one customer versus the platform, and the ability to push back on scope when it matters.
Excitement about bringing AI agents into high-stakes professional work.

Experience at a Big 4 firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) or a major consulting firm such as Accenture, McKinsey, BCG or Bain.
Knowledge of audit, accounting, risk or compliance.
Experience deploying LLM or agent-based systems in production.