Decagon
Engineering Lead, Strategic Deployments
$200K–$400K
New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
About the job
Owns end-to-end technical delivery for major customer deployments, translating customer needs into production-ready solutions and improvements to Decagon’s core product.
What you'll do
- Lead technical builds for strategic deals from proof of concept through close and post-close stabilization.
- Set technical direction, manage delivery, and work with customer engineering and product leaders to define requirements and build internal champions.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks; turn deal-specific needs into durable product improvements and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Strong engineering leader or former technical founder.
- Strong appetite for customer-facing work.
- Comfort owning high-stakes accounts with significant ambiguity.
- Ability to assess technical options, timelines, and risks and choose a path under pressure.
Nice to have
- Experience productionizing agentic systems.
Pay
$200K – $400K (base salary; currency not stated)
AI focus
Build and productionize conversational AI agent deployments, spanning infrastructure, agent development, model evaluation, research, and reliability.
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