Remote Forward‑Deployed Supply Chain Engineer

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Lyric

Remote role

Up to 25% travel

Job summary

Lyric is seeking a Forward Deployed Supply Chain Engineer to lead platform delivery on one of our largest enterprise engagements to date. This is a senior, customer-facing role that owns a workstream end-to-end from planning through go-live and brings the judgment, presence, and drive to earn the confidence of tenured operators and engineers.

The role is hands-on and autonomous, requires urgency and credibility, and will operate in a high-visibility deployment with real stakes, collaborating

Qualifications

• 3–7+ years of experience, ideally as a senior consultant at a large systems integrator.
• Hands-on ownership: run meetings, build project plans, and drive to a timeline.
• Supply chain consulting background preferred; oil & gas experience is a plus but not required.
• Strong program and project management skills.
• High energy, high agency, comfortable navigating a large client organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• SQL/Python familiarity is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own Lyric deployment workstreams end‑to‑end, from planning through go‑live
• Run meetings and manage the project plan independently, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and status
• Partner with customer and internal executives to align priorities, manage risk, and ensure on‑time, on‑budget delivery
• Lead structured UAT and drive adoption of Lyric solutions for our customers
• Train and enable customer teams, including engineers and experienced operators, to adopt Lyric’s platform effectively, building confidence in a powerful and fast‑evolving toolset
• Serve as the primary point of contact for end‑users through go‑live and into steady‑state monitoring
• Partner closely with Lyric's technical delivery team to translate business needs into the platform build

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Supply chain consulting

SQL

Python

Job description

Lyric is seeking a Forward Deployed Supply Chain Engineer to lead platform delivery on one of our largest enterprise engagements to date. This is a senior, customer-facing role that owns a workstream end-to-end from planning through go-live and brings the judgment, presence, and drive to earn the confidence of tenured operators and engineers.

The role is hands-on and autonomous, requires urgency and credibility, and will operate in a high-visibility deployment with real stakes, collaborating