The Opportunity
Join as a founding member of Glean's forward deployed team to discover and build next-generation product surfaces. Work in a pod with Forward Deployed PMs directly with C-suite executives of influential companies and Glean's engineering/product teams to identify unsolved business problems and create new products that ship globally.
What You'll Do
- Discover and build Glean's next product surfaces: Perform 0-to-1 product creation by extending the platform to solve novel problems.
- Lead deep opportunity discovery: Analyze business issues, form hypotheses, and validate with stakeholders.
- Be a technical partner to the C-suite: Build trust with executives by explaining builds, rationale, and risks.
- Scale what works: Collaborate with R&D to make successful solutions repeatable and scalable.
- Stay at the frontier with Glean's R&D team: Shape platform evolution based on field insights.
What We're Looking For
- 0-to-1 build track record: Built production software from scratch in ambiguous environments.
- Production AI experience: Shipped AI solutions including prompt engineering, agents, evaluation, and deployment.
- Full-stack technical depth: Strong programming skills and enterprise systems knowledge.
- Business acumen: Identify problems and form product hypotheses independently.
- Customer instinct: Build trust and communicate effectively at all levels.
- Builder's judgment: Assess feasibility, timelines, and simplify for production.
- Curiosity and scrappiness: Deep problem understanding and resourcefulness.
- Experience: 4+ years in technical roles shipping production software.
- Willingness to travel: 25–50%.
Nice to Have
- Experience as founder, top-tier tech company, or forward deployed engineering.
- Technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or related.
- Deep familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks.
- Driving tech adoption in large enterprises.
Compensation & Benefits
Standard range: $160,000-$270,000 annually (varies by location, level, skills, experience). Eligible for variable pay, equity, benefits including medical/dental/vision, PTO, 401k, stipends, events, lunches.