Strategic Deals Engineering Lead | Equity & Impact
Decagon
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Job summary
Decagon in San Francisco is seeking a senior technical leader to own the end-to-end build for 1-3 Strategic Deals, working directly with the customer's senior engineering and product leaders to define what is needed for the deal to succeed.
You will decide what to build, lead a pod of engineers, productionize it for impact across all customers, manage risk, and steer the product roadmap with a center role in strategy and delivery.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering leadership experience.
- Strong appetite for customer-facing work.
- Comfort with high-stakes accounts and ambiguity.
- Ability to estimate timelines and weigh options under pressure.
- Bonus: experience productionizing agentic systems.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical build end-to-end for Strategic Deals.
- Drive technical requirements 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.
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Job description
Decagon in San Francisco is seeking a senior technical leader to own the end-to-end build for 1-3 Strategic Deals, working directly with the customer's senior engineering and product leaders to define what is needed for the deal to succeed.
You will decide what to build, lead a pod of engineers, productionize it for impact across all customers, manage risk, and steer the product roadmap with a center role in strategy and delivery.
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