# Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering at Workday

- Company: Workday
- What the company does: Experience a new way to work with Sana and agentic AI from Workday. Backed by Greylock, NEA and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.workday.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: USA, CA, Pleasanton
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $210K to $314K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Apply by: 2026-12-21
- Apply: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Senior-Manager--Forward-Deployed-Engineering_JR-0111288?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workday-senior-manager-forward-deployed-engineering/

## About the role

As the Forward Deployed (FDE) Manager, you will lead one or more FDE pods, reporting into the SVP who owns Workday’s Data Cloud platform portfolio. You are accountable for the health of the FDE operating model within your pods: making sure your engineers are deployed against the right customer engagements, that their time compounds into permanent product improvements rather than one-off delivery work, and that each engagement moves cleanly through selection, kick-off, and exit. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience managing, leading, or coaching technical teams (direct people management or demonstrated technical/team leadership of engineers in customer-facing or field-deployment settings)
- Technical depth sufficient to review and guide hands-on engineering work: solid understanding of coding and debugging (e.g., Python, Java, or similar), REST APIs, system architecture, and integration patterns
- Proven experience managing multiple concurrent, complex software deployments or customer engagements in parallel, including live data troubleshooting and custom workflow integration
- Product mindset: skilled at abstracting generalizable product requirements from bespoke customer issues, and at turning pod-level patterns into roadmap input
- Exceptional verbal and written communication, skilled at translating complex technical and customer context for senior internal and customer leadership
- Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-changing requirements across Product, Engineering, and Services teams, highly collaborative, low-ego operator within multi-disciplinary account and delivery pods


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