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Forward Deployed Expert, Manager

Trunk Tools · New York City HQ · On-site

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About Trunk Tools

Trunk Tools is the AI platform built for construction. One brain that reads every document on your job, and tools that transform your team’s workflows. Backed by Insight and Redpoint.

About the role

Trunk Tools is looking for an FDX Manager to lead our deployed team of Forward Deployed Experts (FDX) inside a top-20 general contractor account. You’ll manage a team of five to eight FDX embedded across the customer’s regions, and you’ll still carry field work yourself — this is a player-coach role.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience including people leadership — you’ve hired, coached, and led teams
  • A background in construction operations paired with strong AI fluency
  • Experience leading field, deployed, or turnaround teams, professional-services or consulting leadership is a plus
  • A genuine player-coach — still credible doing the work, and strong at developing people
  • Capacity planning and the judgment to deploy a team against shifting demand
  • Construction domain depth and daily AI-tool fluency
More about this role

At Trunk Tools, we’re the leading AI company revolutionizing construction, the second-largest industry on earth. We recently raised a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing our total funding to $70M from top-tier investors including Redpoint and Innovation Endeavors. This new round is fueling our next phase of growth as we scale AI agents across the jobsite.

Our mission is to build the future of construction through intelligent automation. Despite being a $13+ trillion industry, construction still runs largely on analog processes, we’re changing that by embedding AI directly into field operations.

Founded by builders and technologists (Stanford, MIT), our team has delivered software used by over 140,000 field professionals, impacting millions of users and contributing to $10B+ in built projects. Many of us come from the field ourselves, giving us a deep understanding of the industry’s unique challenges.

After years of building the “brain” of construction, we’re now launching production-ready AI agents, starting with intelligent document processing and Q&A, and rapidly expanding into core operational workflows. Our team has doubled in the past year, and with 100+ employees...

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