Forward Deployed Engineer – AI Revenue Agents

Outreach Outreach · Enterprise · United States · Professional Services

The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role at Outreach focuses on deploying, customizing, and operationalizing AI Revenue Agents within customer environments. This involves understanding GTM workflows, adapting agent capabilities, developing reusable solutions, and acting as a liaison between customers and product/engineering teams. The role requires a blend of technical implementation and functional GTM strategy, with a focus on driving customer outcomes through AI agents.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead AI Agent Pilots & Implementations
  2. Understand & Map GTM Workflows
  3. Customize & Tune AI Behavior
  4. Develop Reusable Solutions
  5. Act as a Product & Field Liaison

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years in customer-facing implementation or deployment roles (e.g., Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Revenue Operations, or FDE roles)
  • Technical experience with SaaS integrations, APIs, data pipelines, or CRM systems (Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of sales workflows (e.g., prospecting, discovery, pipeline management, deal review)
  • Ability to translate complex business processes into clear, executable deployment plans
  • Strong communication skills for working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and GTM teams
  • Experience working in Agile or iterative implementation models (pilots, MVPs, rollouts)
  • A hybrid of technical implementer and functional GTM strategist
  • Comfortable working directly with revenue teams (Sales, SDRs, Ops, Enablement)
  • Curious, customer-obsessed, and excited by real-world applications of AI

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI/ML systems, LLMs, or prompt engineering a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • AI Revenue Agents
  • AI agents
  • AI-assisted

Other signals

  • Deploying AI agents
  • Customizing AI agent behavior
  • Integrating AI agents into customer workflows