Forward Deployed Engineering Manager: AI Integrations Lead

Vibehackers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vibehackers in London is seeking a Manager of Forward Deployed Engineering to lead a team delivering enterprise Notion integrations, agents, automations, and data migrations. You will guide discovery, architecture, and delivery while coaching engineers and engaging with senior customer stakeholders.

You will own technical quality, drive scoping, and coordinate with Sales and Services on strategic opportunities, ensuring scalable and reusable solutions across EMEA.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in forward deployed engineering, solutions/professional services, customer engineering, software engineering, or similar hands-on technical roles.
• 2+ years managing, coaching, or leading engineers in customer-facing technical delivery.
• Proven experience hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing technical teams.
• Hands-on experience with APIs, integrations, authentication, data transformation, and production systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Forward Deployed Engineers delivering enterprise customer engagements across EMEA.
• Own the technical quality and outcomes of engagements from discovery and requirements gathering through solution design, implementation, launch, and handover.
• Act as a trusted technical and delivery advisor to customer engineering, IT, security, and business leaders.
• Guide design, build, and operation of custom agents, integrations, automations, and data pipelines connecting Notion with customers’ systems.
• Oversee large-scale content and data migrations, including discovery, scoping, data modeling, transformation, validation, cutover, and post-migration optimization.
• Review technical designs, identify delivery risks, and provide senior technical leadership when engagements require escalation.
• Partner with Sales and Services on qualification, feasibility, scoping, effort estimation, staffing, and delivery planning for strategic opportunities.
• Define and scale the operating model for Forward Deployed Engineering: hiring, onboarding, delivery methodologies, quality reviews, documentation, and reusable technical assets.

Skills

People leadership

Team coaching

Technical leadership

Customer-facing delivery

Architecture

Systems debugging

Stakeholder management

Project delivery and planning

Job description

Vibehackers in London is seeking a Manager of Forward Deployed Engineering to lead a team delivering enterprise Notion integrations, agents, automations, and data migrations. You will guide discovery, architecture, and delivery while coaching engineers and engaging with senior customer stakeholders.

You will own technical quality, drive scoping, and coordinate with Sales and Services on strategic opportunities, ensuring scalable and reusable solutions across EMEA.