Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Coworked
- Boston, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead structured sessions with PMOs, IT, security and business owners to map PMLC, governance checkpoints, and the project toolchain (e.g. Microsoft Project, Planner, Jira, Smartsheet, and PPM suites).
- Document current state and desired state. Produce a summary that includes a recommended pilot scope, integration approach, data flows, access and compliance notes, and a risk and effort matrix.
- Build plans covering environments, access, data onboarding, controls, success metrics, and exit criteria.
- Work with customer IT to implement, configure and validate connectors and data paths, and create reusable checklists.
- Write runbooks for day-to-day operations, incident handling, permissioning, and change management.
- Train project managers, PMO analysts, and sponsors with clear materials, recordings, quick references, and office hours.
- Track adoption with a lightweight scorecard.
- Work directly with the CEO and product to translate customer needs into repeatable capabilities, templates, and integrations.
- Capture field feedback that sharpens Harmony’s tone, behaviors, and interaction patterns so every touchpoint feels consistent and human.
- 3 to 5 years in a customer facing role delivering solution discovery and deployment for enterprise software or systems integration.
- Solid project management experience. Comfortable with PMLC, RAID, resource and stakeholder comms, and benefits tracking. Technical project manangement with PMP preferred.
- Familiar with AI.
- Working knowledge of enterprise PM/PPM/SPM tools such as Microsoft Project & Planner, Jira, Smartsheet, Teams, SharePoint, Confluence, UMT360, Fluid, et al.
- Tools like Notion, Miro
- Strong communicator who can simplify complex environments and write crisp docs: discovery notes, runbooks, checklists, and training guides.
- Builder mindset, bias to action, comfortable with ambiguity and dynamic needs.
- Security and compliance basics.
- Experience deploying solutions inside Fortune 500 environments.
- Familiarity with OAuth, SSO.
- Exposure to AI agents or automation in real project workflows.
- Customer impact first. Time to first value is a headline metric.
- Clear docs beat tribal knowledge. If it is repeatable, you will write it down.
- Collaboration over heroics. You will pair with product, design, and engineering to turn field learnings into durable capability.
- Competitive salary and equity, calibrated to experience and location.
- Flexible PTO, and the gear you need.
- Travel for customer onsite work, typically 20 to 50 percent.