Director, Field Engineering Strategy & Execution

Neo4j; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Neo4j is seeking a Director of Field Engineering Strategy & Execution. This hybrid role partners with GTM Strategy & Execution and Global Field Engineering to scale pre-sales/SE operations, drive capacity planning, metricing, and enablement. You will design staffing, tooling, and processes to optimize revenue outcomes.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in field engineering/OPS with strong analytics and cross-functional influence across Sales, Product, and Finance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Sales/Revenue Operations, Field Engineering leadership, or GTM Strategy roles.
• Experience directly supporting an SE organization or field engineering
• Advanced data manipulation and self-serve analytics capability.

Responsibilities

• Own headcount, capacity planning, and coverage models that align with pipeline and bookings targets.
• Define KPI framework and dashboards for leadership review.
• Translate GTM priorities into Field Engineering execution plans and annual planning.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Field engineering

GTM strategy

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Engineering

Tools

CRM (SFDC)

BI tools

Job description

About Neo4j:

Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. It includes enterprise-ready knowledge graphs for accurate, explainable, and governed AI; the most comprehensive, trusted, and easy-to-deploy graph capabilities across any environment and data source; and an unmatched ecosystem trusted by 84 of the Fortune 100 and supported by the world’s largest graph community. Intelligence that works. Results that matter.

Built to work everywhere and integrate with everything across every cloud for dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems. We deliver quicker results, contextual knowledge, and solutions that impact customers and employees across the business.

Our Vision:

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

Role Summary

The Director, Field Engineering Strategy & Execution is the operating partner for the Global Field Engineering organization, embedded within the Office of the CRO's GTM Strategy & Execution function. This role owns the strategic planning, operational cadence, and performance infrastructure that enable the pre-sales/SE (“Field Engineering”) organization to scale efficiently against revenue targets. It translates GTM strategy into Field Engineering execution — capacity planning, coverage models, productivity measurement, tooling, and enablement operations — while acting as the primary strategic advisor to the VP, Global Field Engineering on organizational design and resource allocation.

This is a hybrid role: formal reporting into GTM Strategy & Execution ensures alignment with company-wide revenue planning and cross-functional GTM systems; the strong dotted line into Global Field Engineering ensures the work is grounded in field reality and has direct influence over how the SE organization is run day to day.

Key Responsibilities

Headcount & Capacity Planning

• Own the Field Engineering headcount model: current-state coverage, ratio benchmarking (SE:AE, SE:ARR, SE:Account), and forward capacity planning tied to pipeline and bookings targets.
• Partner with Finance and RevOps on annual and in-year headcount requests, backed by data.
• Build and maintain territory/coverage models across segments, regions, and specializations (e.g., vertical or product-line SE pods).

Performance Operations & Reporting

• Define and own the Field Engineering KPI framework (e.g., SE utilization, POV win rate, technical win/loss, ramp time, deal-cycle involvement).
• Build and maintain leadership-facing dashboards and QBR materials for the Global Field Engineering organization.
• Run the operating cadence: weekly/monthly business reviews, forecast rollups specific to technical validation stages, and escalation processes for at-risk deals requiring SE intervention.

Strategic Planning

• Translate company and GTM Strategy & Execution priorities into Field Engineering execution plans.
• Lead annual planning for the Field Engineering org: goals, org structure, budget inputs, and success metrics.
• Identify structural inefficiencies in field engineering deployment and recommend organizational or process changes.

Systems, Tools & Process

• Own the Field Engineering tech stack requirements (CRM data model for SE activity, POV/demo tracking, scheduling and capacity tools) in partnership with RevOps and Sales Systems.
• Standardize and govern SE processes (deal qualification criteria for SE engagement, handoff protocols, POV governance) in partnership with Field Engineering leadership.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled tooling to improve SE productivity and reduce non-selling time.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Serve as the primary liaison between Global Field Engineering and GTM Strategy & Execution, Revenue Operations, Sales, Product, and Finance.
• Represent Field Engineering's operational needs in company-wide GTM planning cycles (territory carving, comp design, quota setting).
• Partner with Enablement on the SE certification and skills framework, ensuring it is grounded in capacity and performance data.

Requirements

• 10+ years in Sales/Revenue Operations, Field Engineering leadership, or GTM Strategy roles, with at least 3+ years in enterprise B2B software or infrastructure/data software.
• Direct prior experience as a Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Field Engineer, or as a manager/RevOps partner directly supporting an SE organization. Non-negotiable — this role requires firsthand credibility with the field engineering org, not secondhand familiarity.
• Advanced, hands-on data manipulation and self-serve analytics capability: fluency