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Posted May 1, 2026

Engineering Manager, Forward-Deployed Engineering

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About GrowthX AI

At GrowthX, we’re building the modern growth engine for marketing teams. Since launching in 2024, we've grown from concept to eight-figure annual revenue. To date, we've raised a $12M Series A led by Madrona Venture Group and we partner with 60+ companies ranging from high-growth startups to industry leaders like Lovable, Webflow, Ramp, Superhuman, Strapi, Abnormal Security, and Augment Code.

We’ve built something different: an operating system that unifies powerful AI workflows with forward-deployed experts to transform content into compounding organic growth. We’re building the growth infrastructure marketing teams wish they’d always had — the system that reliably turns context into strategy, strategy into execution, and execution into measurable growth.

About The Role

AI is reshaping go-to-market. Not just content creation. The entire surface area: product experiences, developer tools, documentation, integrations, research systems.

GrowthX runs a high-end AI product studio for this shift. We build AI agents, custom products, and advanced automations for B2B companies on top of Output.ai, our open-source AI workflow framework. Think Palantir's forward-deployed model, but for GTM.

Recent examples:

This is AI + product development + GTM. We have a team of 5 today. We're growing to ~20. We need someone to lead this expansion.

What You'll Own

Who You Are

What Would Make You Exceptional

How We Work

Think First, Build Second. AI made building fast and cheap. Writing code is no longer the bottleneck — thinking is. Before you build anything, invest real time understanding the problem. Study the context. Research what great looks like. Work backwards from the business reason into a detailed plan. The planning can still be fast, but it can't be skipped. Speed without direction is just drift.

Own the Outcome. Freedom and responsibility go together. We own our work, chase down answers, and take initiative. Don't wait for direction. Don't treat your scope as someone else's problem once it leaves your hands. Every one of us shapes the outcome.

Work in the Open. We're a remote company. Nobody can see you work. Share the plan before you execute. Share progress while you execute. A rough plan shared early beats a polished plan shared after the work is done wrong. If leadership has to chase you down to find out what happened, the process already failed.

Chase the Context. Read the docs. Understand the product, the space, the business, the customer. Nobody is going to sit you down and explain everything. The context is there — go get it. We're too small for anyone to just write code without understanding the business.

Move Fast, Stay Steady. Know when to sprint and when to pump the brakes. Don't over-engineer low-stakes tasks. Don't under-think critical ones. That judgment is what makes senior people here genuinely senior, regardless of title.

Process for Context, Not Control. We believe good process exists to share context, not enforce control. It should make smart people faster — not make average teams adequate. If you need Scrum, OKRs, and sprint cycles to keep a team productive, we're probably not the right fit — and that's okay.

Small team. High autonomy. No layers. You'll work directly with founders, engineers, and delivery leads.

What Success Looks Like

30 days: Understand the team, the clients, and Output.ai. Work on one client project yourself. Build relationships with leads and team.

90 days: Own team operations. Improve at least one major process. Make your first hires. Have clear understanding of team capacity and client satisfaction.

6 months: Team is running smoothly at larger scale. Reusable patterns are documented and accelerating implementations. Clients and delivery teams trust the engineering function.

How to Apply

We're not just looking for a resume and a cover letter. We're looking for how you think.

Write a short article (1,000–2,000 words) covering two things:

  1. Your story. What you've built, how you think about engineering leadership, and why this role fits where you're headed.

  2. Explore Output.ai and share what you find — a critique of our architectural decisions, a product you'd build on top of it, a comparison to frameworks you've used, or something you actually built with it. The format is up to you. We care about the quality of your thinking, not the scope of the project.

Writing is how we work. We're a remote, async team where the quality of your written thinking determines the quality of what gets built. AI made everyone faster at writing code — that makes clear thinking, strong writing, and taste for great architecture the real differentiators.

Your article is your first impression. Make it count.

Perks:

Fully Remote Work

Ample Time Off

Professional Growth

Collaborative Culture

Work Visa: Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country of residence. We are not able to provide employment visa sponsorship at this time.

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