Forward Deployed Engineer, Gtm - Korea

Notion Notion · Enterprise · Seoul, South Korea · Sales

This role involves leading customer engineering engagements, focusing on integrating Notion with third-party systems and deploying AI/agentic solutions. Responsibilities include designing and building custom agents and workflows, managing data pipelines, and acting as a technical advisor to enterprise clients. The role requires strong programming skills, API integration experience, and the ability to translate complex technical challenges into customer value.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the hands-on technical delivery of customer engagements, including deep technical discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, and end to end implementation.
  2. Design, build, and operate custom agents, integrations, automations, and data pipelines that connect Notion with customers’ systems and workflows.
  3. Act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers make informed architectural decisions and identify opportunities to expand and deepen their use of Notion.
  4. Lead the design and execution of large-scale content and data migrations, including discovery, scoping, data modeling, transformation logic, validation, and post-migration optimization.
  5. Design and operate feedback loops with Product, CX, and Engineering, translating real-world implementation challenges into actionable insights, technical requirements, and tooling improvements that directly influence Notion’s Product Roadmap and our Customers

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing engineering role, forward deployed engineering, or similar role, preferably in a SaaS or enterprise software environment.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, SQL, or Python and comfort with writing production-quality code in customer-facing or internal engineering contexts.
  • Hands-on experience with APIs and data integration.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and business audiences effectively.
  • A track record of delivering customer value by translating technical challenges into solutions that drive value for customers at scale.
  • Native-level Korean speaker with business-level English proficiency (including spoken English)

Nice to have

  • Experience working in SaaS professional services, preferably in a startup or high-growth environment.
  • Experience deploying AI agents autonomously in complex coding or business workflows.
  • Background in developing technical frameworks, discovery methodologies, or internal tooling from the ground up.
  • Strong history of collaboration with product and engineering teams, including influencing roadmaps or architectural decisions.
  • Experience supporting pre-sales or early engagement phases, including technical discovery, migration scoping, feasibility analysis, effort estimation, and building prototypes or custom scripts to validate approaches.
  • Strong track record of successful enterprise customer implementations.

What the JD emphasized

  • production AI/agentic deployments
  • custom agents and AI workflows
  • deploying AI agents autonomously

Other signals

  • customer engineering engagements
  • integrating Notion with third party systems and tools
  • production AI/agentic deployments
  • design and build solutions that integrate Notion deeply into their technical and operational environments
  • writing and maintaining custom code
  • designing and deploying production-grade custom agents and AI workflows with MCP, Agent APIs, and Notion’s automation and execution infrastructure
  • building data pipelines
  • resolving complex challenges around scale, permissions, and governance
  • customer-facing engineer
  • shape best practices for how we support complex customer needs
  • ensure Notion’s platform is ready for scale
  • hands-on technical delivery of customer engagements
  • deep technical discovery
  • requirements gathering
  • solution design
  • end to end implementation
  • trusted technical advisor
  • helping customers make informed architectural decisions
  • identify opportunities to expand and deepen their use of Notion
  • Design, build, and operate custom agents, integrations, automations, and data pipelines that connect Notion with customers’ systems and workflows
  • Lead the design and execution of large-scale content and data migrations
  • discovery
  • scoping
  • data modeling
  • transformation logic
  • validation
  • post-migration optimization
  • Work closely with client stakeholders to gather business and technical requirements and translate them into well-architected solutions that maximize the value of the Notion platform within their broader technical ecosystem
  • Design and build customer integrations, automations, and custom tooling as a part of Notion implementations
  • Design and operate feedback loops with Product, CX, and Engineering
  • translating real-world implementation challenges into actionable insights, technical requirements, and tooling improvements that directly influence Notion’s Product Roadmap and our Customers
  • Build foundational discovery frameworks, technical standards, and internal tooling that define how Services delivers complex migrations and implementations at scale
  • Contribute to the evolution of the Services team by developing repeatable methodologies, scoping artifacts, internal tooling, and contributing best practices as the team and customer footprint grow
  • 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing engineering role, forward deployed engineering, or similar role, preferably in a SaaS or enterprise software environment
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, SQL, or Python and comfort with writing production-quality code in customer-facing or internal engineering contexts
  • Hands-on experience with APIs and data integration
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and business audiences effectively
  • A track record of delivering customer value by translating technical challenges into solutions that drive value for customers at scale
  • You are a native-level Korean speaker with business-level English proficiency (including spoken English)
  • You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results
  • Experience working in SaaS professional services, preferably in a startup or high-growth environment
  • Experience deploying AI agents autonomously in complex coding or business workflows
  • Background in developing technical frameworks, discovery methodologies, or internal tooling from the ground up
  • Strong history of collaboration with product and engineering teams, including influencing roadmaps or architectural decisions
  • Experience supporting pre-sales or early engagement phases, including technical discovery, migration scoping, feasibility analysis, effort estimation, and building prototypes or custom scripts to validate approaches
  • Strong track record of successful enterprise customer implementations
  • builder at heart