management
Posted Apr 27Head of Field Engineering Operations
at Vercel
Hybrid
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end operational strategy for Field Engineering— designing and optimizing the processes, systems, and frameworks that enable the SA, DSE, CSE, TAM, and Professional Services teams to operate at scale and deliver measurable customer impact.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing Field Engineering Operations team, establishing the function as a strategic pillar within the FE organization and a trusted partner to FE leadership.
- Drive capacity planning, territory design, and resource allocation across Field Engineering— ensuring alignment with GTM teams and with sensitivity to unique regional coverage models across AMER, EMEA, and APAC.
- Own the pre- to post-sales lifecycle framework, including technical win and onboarding forecasting, go-live tracking, and consumption ramp measurement— building the systems, processes and insights that give leadership visibility into customer time-to-value and FE team effectiveness.
- Define and maintain the FE metrics and reporting infrastructure— developing KPIs, dashboards, and health scoring models that provide actionable insights on team performance, account engagement, and customer outcomes. About you: 8+ years of
Requirements
- As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web.
- Shape and iterate on how Field Engineering is organized and runs— driving changes to team structures, role definitions and RACI, and engagement models as the team scales, and pressure-testing those proposals with a deep understanding of people, process, and data.
- experience in operations, strategy, or technical program leadership supporting field engineering, solutions, or customer-facing technical organizations at high-growth SaaS companies, with at least 3 years building and leading teams Demonstrated
- experience standing up or scaling operational frameworks for pre-sales and post-sales technical teams (e.g., Solutions Architects, Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Customer Success Engineering)
- Proficiency in core GTM systems and architecture (e.g. Salesforce administration and architecture, including custom objects, flows, reporting, and integration with ecosystem applications)
- experience with post-sales lifecycle management, including consumption-based pricing models, onboarding funnels, and customer health scoring frameworks