Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

About Us

Dashmote builds AI-native, agentic data products for both Fortune 500 brands (Coca-Cola, Heineken, Red Bull) and growth-oriented businesses. With offices in Amsterdam, New York, and Shanghai, we run two products: Location Intelligence (120+ data points per outlet across 50+ countries) and Food Delivery for optimising Sales & Marketing. We pair both with AI agents that work alongside our clients’ commercial, sales, and insights teams to find, score, and convert the right opportunities.

Dashmote has ambitious plans for the coming years, and therefore, we need to ensure we have the right people in place to put them into practice. Do you want to boost your career by contributing to Dashmote’s AI-agentic products, used by some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies? Then we’re looking for you.

The Role

We are hiring a Forward Deploy Engineering Lead.

Location: Amsterdam (the Netherlands) or Shanghai (China)

You have the best of two worlds: you understand our client use-cases by heart, but you also know how we can solve them for one particular client AND at scale across all our clients. You have the ability to create product vision, the ability to build the first version of that vision using AI engineering, and then the power to lead a team to take it from prototype to production.

Think Forward Deployed Engineer (Palantir / Anthropic / OpenAI sense) crossed with an engineering lead who owns delivery end-to-end: vision + builder + customer-facing + team lead.

Main responsibilities

• Client-Facing Forward Deployment: Sit close to our enterprise clients (Coca-Cola, Heineken, Red Bull, Suntory). Join customer calls. Watch how the product is actually adopted. Spot the use cases that turn into a product. Build POCs and features that make clients exponentially more engaged with us and our product.

• Product Vision: Translate what you see at the customer into a product vision that solves not just one account but every account at scale. Decide what’s worth building, what’s worth cutting, what’s good enough.

• AI-Native Building: Build the first version of that vision yourself, with Claude Code/agent loops as your default operating system. Ship in days, not months.

• Productization at Scale: Know what it takes to go from an agentic-coding prototype to a productized solution running at scale across all our clients. Architect for it from day one.

• Team Leadership: Oversee team members to take prototypes to production. Set the bar. Run 1:1s. Coach the team on AI-native ways of working. Hire and level up.

• International Bridge: Be the daily partner across our offices (Amsterdam, New York, Shanghai) and our clients across every timezone.

Your background

• 10+ years of experience building software, with hands-on time in both IC and lead/manager roles

• Have worked in a client-facing role with B2B SaaS, where you see how products are being used and adopted by clients (Data Analytics or Data Solution is a plus)

• Very good knowledge of all the potential use cases and the ability to understand the workflow of clients

• Ability to drive adoption by recommending the best product

• Have built features or products on your own; have built solutions using Agentic Coding Tools (Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and other agentic frameworks)

• Understand what it takes to go from Agentic Coding to a productized solution at scale

• Ability to oversee team members to do the same

• AI-Native Mindset, you ship and release a product in days, not months. AI-Native setup: You can set up and work alongside internal AI agents.

• B2B SaaS background, ideally in data, analytics, or AI tooling

• For the Shanghai-based hire: native Chinese + strong English. English fluency is non-negotiable; you will be the daily bridge to non-Chinese-speaking colleagues.

What’s in it for you?

• Play a key role in shaping how an AI-native product is built at a B2B SaaS company serving Fortune 500 clients

• Direct line to founders

• Real authority over your product and team. You set the bar, you set the direction.

• We believe in the power of AI & Automation, so we don’t want to limit your budget for AI tools (Claude Max, API tokens, GPU credits).

• Location: Based in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) or Shanghai (China)

• Working for a company that was awarded the best B2B startup in Europe by Google, McKinsey, and Rocket Internet (30+ other prizes)

• Working within an international team that truly values your contribution

If this sounds like a match, we would love to hear from you!

For questions, reach out to stefan@dashmote.com