About the job
You'll join as a founding member of Glean's forward deployed team and operate with the autonomy and accountability of a founder. Your job is to discover and build Glean's next generation of product surfaces, working in a pod with Forward Deployed PMs directly with the C-suite of the world's most influential companies and with Glean's own engineering and product teams.
Responsibilities
Discover and build Glean's next product surfaces; Lead deep opportunity discovery; Be a technical partner to the C-suite; Scale what works; Stay at the frontier with Glean's R&D team
Qualifications
Minimum
0-to-1 build track record: You've built production software from scratch in ambiguous environments. You can point to something that didn't exist before you showed up and is now used by real people at scale.
Production AI experience: You've shipped AI-powered solutions in the real world - prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, deployment at scale. Not just prototypes.
Full-stack technical depth: Strong programming skills across the stack with a deep understanding of and experience with how enterprise systems actually work.
Business acumen: You can walk into a customer, identify where the real problems are, and connect that diagnosis to a product hypothesis - without being handed a brief.
Customer instinct: You build trust quickly at every level of an organization, communicate with clarity, and know how to tailor your depth to the room.
Builder's judgment: You know what's actually buildable, how long it will take, and when to simplify scope to get something real into production faster. You spot problems early and solve them independently.
Curiosity and scrappiness: You're driven to understand problems deeply before solving them, and resourceful enough to find a path forward when none is obvious.
Experience: 4+ years in technical roles with a track record of shipping production software. Former technical founders are strongly encouraged to apply.
Willingness to travel: This role requires 25–50% travel.
Preferred
Experience as a founder, at a top-tier technology company, or in a forward deployed engineering role.
A technical degree in CS, engineering, math, or a related field.
Deep familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks.
Experience driving technology adoption inside large enterprises.