# Engineering Lead, Strategic Deals

**Company:** [Decagon](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/decagon)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $200k – $400k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, Agentic Systems, productionization, Model Evaluation, Infrastructure, reliability engineering
**Posted:** 2026-07-31

> Lead technical builds for high-stakes strategic deals with enterprise customers. Own end-to-end delivery from POC to production, tech-lead small engineering pods, translate customer needs into generalized product improvements, and drive technical strategy with customer leaders.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the technical build end-to-end for a handful of Strategic Deals, from POC through close and into post-close stabilization.
- Drive technical requirements directly with the customer’s engineering and product leaders, and build technical champions inside their organizations.
- Identify technical risks early and de-risk them before they threaten the deal.
- Dig past feature requests to the underlying problem, then scope solutions that generalize, turning bespoke deal requirements into durable improvements to the core Decagon product.
- Tech-lead a pod of 1–3 Software Engineers per deal: set technical direction, own delivery, and mentor the engineers on your team.

## Requirements
- Strong engineering leader or ex-technical founder with 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
- Strong appetite for customer-facing work.
- Comfort owning high-stakes accounts with significant ambiguity.
- The ability to quickly assess how long different technical paths will take, weigh their risks, and choose between them under pressure.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience productionizing agentic systems.

## Compensation and Benefits
**Compensation**
$200K – $400K + Offers Equity

**Benefits**
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
- Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
- Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
- Parental Leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Monthly stipend to support your wellness, lifestyle, and work-life balance
- Daily lunches and snacks in the office
- Take what you need vacation policy

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