Forward Deployed Product Manager, Enterprise

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Scale is accelerating the development of AI across the world's most important organizations. The Forward Deployed PM is the person who makes enterprise deployments succeed from the product side — embedded with customers, shaping real production outcomes, and translating messy operational reality into high-signal input for the core platform.

What it asks for · 6

• 6+ years in product management, technical program management, or a customer-facing product ownership role.
• Demonstrated record of shipping products or platform capabilities into large organizations — not pilots or proofs-of-concept. You can name the customer, the scale, the integration, and what production actually looked like.
• Extreme ownership and follow-through: closes loops without reminders, drives outcomes across teams without formal authority, holds self and others to commitments.
• Comfortable operating with senior customer stakeholders (VP/C-level) and senior engineers simultaneously; credible presence in high-stakes rooms on both sides.
• Strong judgment under pressure: makes good calls quickly with incomplete information, knows when to escalate vs. resolve, does not generate thrash.
• Technical fluency sufficient to hold a real conversation with a platform engineer about architectural tradeoffs — not deep coding, but genuine comprehension of how systems work in production.

Also a plus

• Direct experience with AI/ML platform products — data labeling, RLHF, fine-tuning workflows, or model evaluation pipelines.
• Experience in a startup or early-stage environment where process didn't exist and had to be created.
• Prior forward-deployed or embedded role (consulting, field PM, solutions engineering with ownership).

What the job covers

• Own product outcomes for our highest impact enterprise accounts. You are the accountable PM for product delivery and customer value.
• Build trusted advisory relationships with VP/C-level buyers and senior technical leads. Become the reliable escalation point on the Scale side before issues surface externally.
• Drive deployments from contract to production. You have done this before for large organizations. You know what 'production-ready' actually means and you close the gap.
• Translate real customer workflows, friction, and priorities into high-signal product input for core platform teams. Not requirements docs — specific, evidence-backed product perspective with tradeoffs articulated.
• Distinguish where the product is the constraint from where execution, integration, or change management is. Drive each type of blocker to resolution through the right channel.
• Partner closely with FDEs so the account runs as a coordinated team, not a set of parallel workstreams.
• Identify and develop expansion opportunities grounded in demonstrated customer value
• Represent customer reality to platform and leadership with enough credibility that it changes decisions.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• product16×
• customer12×
• platform9×
• production6×
• real6×
• engineer5×
• senior5×
• deployments4×
• enterprise4×
• management4×
• outcomes4×
• ownership4×
• technical4×
• drive3×
• integration3×
• large organizations3×

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