Head of Delivery

Roboflow  ·  via Tech Sales Jobs
🌎 Remote 📍 Remote, California

Job Description:

  • Lead and scale Roboflow’s Delivery organization, including Implementation Engineering and Forward Deployed Engineering
  • Build organizational structure, roles, processes, and operating cadence
  • Work directly with customers and teams on complex implementations and deployments
  • Participate in architecture discussions, deployment scoping, troubleshooting, and executive customer conversations
  • Create repeatable frameworks for scoping, implementation, deployment, escalation, and handoff
  • Partner with Sales and Solutions Architects before contracts are signed to support successful deployments
  • Define and measure implementation success, time-to-value, deployment health, and customer outcomes
  • Improve scalability through people, process, product, documentation, tooling, and automation
  • Hire, coach, and develop Implementation Engineers and Forward Deployed Engineers
  • Establish feedback loops with Product and Engineering based on customer technical problems
  • Partner with Sales, Solutions Architects, Support, and Partnerships throughout the customer lifecycle
  • Build an operating model, improve deployment consistency, accelerate production readiness, and support increasingly complex customers

Requirements:

  • Experience building or leading a customer-facing technical delivery, forward deployed engineering, implementation engineering, professional services, or similar organization in a technical software company
  • Deeply technical and comfortable working alongside engineers on complex customer problems
  • Hands-on leadership approach
  • Personal experience working with customers on complex implementations and moving proof of concepts into production systems
  • Ability to balance customer-specific needs with scalable product and organizational requirements
  • Excellent people leadership skills, including attracting, developing, and retaining highly technical, high-agency talent
  • Ability to operate across technical and business audiences
  • Strong judgment in prioritization and resource allocation
  • Ability to thrive while building a playbook in an evolving environment
  • Experience building a Delivery or Forward Deployed Engineering function from an earlier stage
  • Experience in developer tools, infrastructure, AI/ML, data platforms, robotics, computer vision, or another deeply technical product environment
  • Experience supporting deployments involving software and the physical world
  • Experience with enterprise customers and complex, multi-stakeholder deployments
  • Experience improving time-to-value or making services-heavy operations more repeatable and scalable
  • Experience owning the entire customer success process