Forward Deployed Engineer/Solutions Engineer - AI AdTech Media Buying Platform

Three Pillars Recruiting; New York (NY); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Three Pillars Recruiting is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer/Solutions Engineer to deeply understand client media buying workflows, identify automation opportunities, and bridge gaps with integrations or new features. You will own end-to-end proof-of-concepts and drive adoption of scalable automation across client teams.

You’ll configure integrations, write scripts, and troubleshoot at the root cause level while guiding biweekly standups and leadership reviews.

Qualifications

• Exceptional communicator able to translate complex concepts for buyers and stakeholders.
• Experience reading error logs, forming hypotheses, and fixing issues.
• Comfortable with APIs and troubleshooting data flows.
• Naturally organized; able to run multiple POCs in parallel.

Responsabilités

• Understand client workflows in depth to automate processes and improve efficiency.
• Lead end-to-end POCs, own platform connections, scoping, and final readouts.
• Configure integrations, write scripts, troubleshoot at root cause level.
• Run biweekly standups, monthly reviews, and deep dives to keep projects on track.
• Shape the product roadmap based on actual client workflows and feedback.
• Help define scalable onboarding and playbooks for client success as an early hire.

Connaissances

Exceptional communicator

APIs

Troubleshooting

Organized

Client-facing

Forward deployed experience

Formation

CS degree or equivalent technical background

Description du poste

Forward Deployed Engineer/Solutions Engineer

The core of this role is developing a deep understanding of how clients' media buying teams actually work — their workflows, their pain points, their institutional knowledge — and figuring out how they can automate the mundane and compound their internal IP. Sometimes that means configuring what already exists. Sometimes it means identifying gaps that require new integrations or product features. You're the person who bridges that gap between what clients need and what they build next.

What You'll Do:

• Understand how clients work — Go deep on each client's media buying workflows — how they manage pacing, QA campaigns, handle discrepancies, report to stakeholders. The better you understand their world, the better you can automate it.
• Lead POCs end-to-end — Run structured 90-day proof‑of‑concepts. Own the platform connection, account linking, first automation scoping, and the final readout. You're accountable to the outcome, not just the process.
• Build and problem-solve — Configure integrations, write scripts, and troubleshoot at the root cause level. When a client workflow can't be automated with what exists today, you're the one who defines what needs to be built.
• Run the cadence — Facilitate biweekly practitioner standups, monthly leadership reviews, and mid‑point deep dives. Keep both sides accountable to agreed objectives and surface early signals before they become blockers.
• Shape the product roadmap — You'll have more insight into real client workflows than anyone else in the company. The integrations you identify and the gaps you surface will directly influence what they build next.
• Build the playbook — As an early hire, you'll help define how they scale client success — documenting what works, creating repeatable onboarding frameworks, and raising the ceiling on what great looks like.

What They're Looking For:

Technically sharp. Exceptionally human.

Essential

• 3–6 years in a forward deployed, solutions engineering, or highly technical client‑facing role
• Exceptional communicator — able to translate complex technical concepts for media buyers and C‑suite stakeholders in the same breath
• Buy‑side experience at a DSP or media agency trading desk
• Comfortable with APIs and troubleshooting data flows — you can read an error log, form a hypothesis, and fix it
• Naturally organized — you run multiple POCs in parallel without dropping threads

Preferred

• CS degree or equivalent technical background
• Experience working with AI or automation tools in a client‑facing context
• Early‑stage startup experience — you know what it means to build the plane while flying it

Who Thrives Here

You're the kind of person who genuinely enjoys getting into the weeds with a client and coming out the other side with a solved problem. You feel the same pull toward a tricky API integration as you do toward a tough client conversation — and you don't need to be told to document what you learn. You've probably had a job where someone said "you're more like a partner than a vendor" and you took it as the higher compliment possible.

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