{"id":2371110,"url":"https://alion.io/job/drivepoint-forward-deployed-engineer-fde","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)","company":{"id":720124,"name":"Drivepoint","domain":"drivepoint.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/drivepoint-2","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Rippling","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":140000,"max":175000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":175000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"BigQuery","optional":true},{"name":"Google BigQuery","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-12T16:47:59Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-12","last_verified_at":"2026-10-12T21:34:34Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Drivepoint\nDrivepoint is AI for consumer brands: not just finance, the whole brand. AI looks easy in a demo, but CPG runs on hard mode, with thousands of SKUs, thin margins, physical inventory and fickle capital. Most brands never get AI from possible to production.\nWe close that gap. Drivepoint connects all of a brand's data in one place it owns, adds its business context and ready-made CPG workflows, and runs wherever the team works: our app, Claude or ChatGPT through our MCP server, or tools they build themselves.\nForward Deployed Engineer (FDE)\nWe're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead AI deployments at consumer brands and solve the data and business problems they've never been able to crack. You think like a CPG operator and a product person, and you build with AI every day.\nThe role\nEvery company is trying to deploy AI, and most consumer brands stall on the hard part: messy data and business problems nobody has cracked. As an FDE, you walk into a brand as the lead for its AI deployment and solve a problem it has never been able to solve.\nYou own a set of brands from kickoff until their team runs real work in Drivepoint without us. Depending on the customer, you may stay on as their partner through the year: new problems, new workflows, renewal and expansion. You report to our Head of Product and work hybrid in New York City.\nWhat you'll do\nSolve the hard data problems. Shopify orders that don't tie to the books, a channel counted twice, retailer data that arrives as five different files, SKUs named three ways. You find out why, fix it, and make the numbers trusted.\nCrack business problems they've never answered. Which retailer actually makes money after trade spend? Can we call this month's wholesale close from open POs before it hits the books? Where is cash stuck in inventory? You frame the question, find the data that answers it, and get the answer into their hands.\nLead the engagement. Open every session with an agenda and what the customer will walk away with. Ask what decision they're trying to make before anything gets built. Close with owners and dates, and drive the plan until it runs without you.\nSet up the foundation. Connect Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop, retailers, 3PLs, ad platforms and the books with customers and their agencies. Capture their account mappings, SKU conventions and naming so every answer comes back in their language.\nPut AI to work. Tailor workflows from our library to the brand and schedule them to run on their own, in our app, in Claude or ChatGPT, or in the tools they build, with the right permissions.\nSteer implementation partners. Brief partners on custom builds, keep them on schedule, and check their work before the customer sees it.\nTurn field work into product. When a problem repeats across brands, build the fix into a reusable workflow with Claude Code and bring the evidence to the product team.\nWhat \"engineer\" means here\nThis isn't a traditional software engineering role, and it isn't a sales role. You build every day, mostly with AI: Claude Code, skills and automated workflows, SQL against a brand's data, and light scripting when it's the fastest way through. The hard part is knowing what to build and why.\nWhat success looks like\nFirst 30 days: you shadow live engagements, learn our stack and workflow library, and run your first customer sessions with support.\nBy 90 days: you lead your own set of brands, each with trusted data and at least one problem solved that it couldn't solve before.\nOngoing: your brands get to value fast, use Drivepoint without us, and renew and expand. The patterns you find show up in the product.\nWhat you bring\nYou know how a whole consumer brand works. Not just the P&L: channel economics, retail vs. DTC, trade spend, weeks of supply, CAC and retention, landed cost. You talk to a founder, an ops lead and a growth marketer in their own terms.\nYou think like a product person. You start from the user's problem and the outcome, you can tell when the ask isn't the need, and you notice when ten customers want the same thing.\nYou're consultative. You set agendas, ask the clarifying question everyone skipped, and turn a messy conversation into a crisp scope.\nYou build with AI. You use Claude Code or similar tools to build workflows, skills or agents that other people actually use. MCP, connectors and permissions don't scare you.\nYou're technical enough. You understand how data moves from Shopify to a warehouse to a report, can read SQL, and can figure out why two numbers don't match.\nYou're great with customers. Comfortable leading sessions with founders and execs; clear, warm, direct writing.\nYou keep many things moving. Several brands and partners at once, no dropped threads.\nYou're financially literate. You read a P&L and spot a forecast that doesn't make sense. You don't need to build three-statement models from scratch.\nNice to have\nYou've founded, launched or run a consumer brand\nConsulting, agency or implementation background\nSQL or BigQuery\nHands-on with Shopify, Amazon, retailer, 3PL or ad platform data\nYou've built an internal tool or app for a team\nInterview process ~final interview schedulecan still change\nIntro call (30 min) with our Head of Product. Bring something you've built with AI and walk us through it.\nBusiness deep dive (45 min). Pick a consumer brand you know well. How does it make money by channel, where do margin and inventory leak, and which three problems would you solve first?\nData problem (45 min). We give you two numbers that should match and don't. Talk us through how you find out why.\nMock kickoff (60 min). We hand you an anonymized brand. You run the first 30 minutes as if we were the customer: agenda, questions, what we'll walk away with. Then you write the plan: data to connect, context to capture, the first problems to solve, and a partner brief if one is needed.\nMeet the team and our CEO.\nCompensation and logistics\nBase salary: $140K-$175K\nStandard benefits package\nHybrid in New York City; customer work is remote, no travel required\nReports to the Head of Product\nDrivepoint is an equal opportunity employer. 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