Hiring: Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering Company: Cursor Location: Austin, CO Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 13:21:54 Target Skills & Keywords : JavaScript, Python, TypeScript About the job Experience: •8+ years of experience leading technical teams that build and ship in production — Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a similar function where writing and reviewing code is part of the job Required Skills: •This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines deep technical credibility, strong people management, and the judgment to keep engagements scoped tight, delivered fast, and worth repeating. •Own the full arc from technical discovery to executive close — partnering with Sales and Account teams to qualify opportunities, leading architecture reviews, surfacing integration complexity and infrastructure constraints, and scoping engagements with enough precision to de-risk delivery before a line of code is written •Build and present proposals that translate ambiguous customer problems into concrete, time-boxed deliverables with clear ROI •Sell the vision and the plan to C-suite stakeholders who need to believe in both the outcome and the team delivering it •Drive deal strategy on strategic accounts; your technical credibility is a direct lever on close rates for six- and seven-figure engagements •Serve as executive technical sponsor on your region's highest-priority engagements and manage stakeholder relationships from IC engineers to C-suite •Ensure delivery quality across your team's projects: appropriate scoping, milestone tracking, technical standards, and clean handoffs to customer engineering teamsTranslate between business outcomes and technical implementation in both directions •Identify and escalate product gaps, integration friction, and recurring customer pain back to Product and Engineering with enough specificity to drive roadmap decisions Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!