# Founding Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering at Afresh

- Company: Afresh
- What the company does: Afresh is the AI platform for grocery retail. We help retailers reduce shrink, improve in-stock rates, and run smarter operations from the store to the DC. Backed by Insight.
- Company website: https://www.afresh.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $204K to $276K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/afresh/jobs/6200751004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/afresh-founding-senior-manager-forward-deployed-engineering/

## About the role

Afresh is building the team that deploys our AI inside the largest grocers in the US. You'll build and lead the team of forward deployed engineers who embed with our enterprise grocery customers, integrating into their data, shipping AI systems on top of it, and hardening what works into our platform. You'll own the technical relationship with each customer's engineering leaders, and you'll partner with the Deployment Strategist who owns the account to plan and sequence the work.

## What they're looking for

- Hire, develop and retain forward deployed engineers. Set the technical bar and the standard for how the team works with customers
- Lead execution across concurrent customer engagements: what gets built, in what order, and to what quality bar
- Staff engagements across accounts, making resourcing calls that balance customer need, team development and what the platform needs next
- Run regular 1:1s and invest in career growth. Several of our engineers are strong builders doing customer-facing work for the first time
- Stay hands-on enough to review architectures and code, lead technical discovery sessions, and debug alongside your team when an account calls for it
- Be the senior technical partner to each customer's engineering and data leadership. Set the delivery roadmap with them, defend the architecture behind it, and tell them early when something slips

Tags: Engineering