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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Conversion'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Conversion

- **Company:** Conversion
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $175k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/conversion/79dcefbf-b697-4089-8dc0-0133ee114c94

## Job description

## About Us

Conversion is the agentic marketing automation platform for modern enterprises such as Plaid, ClickHouse, Webflow, and Productboard. Our platform lets growth teams run their entire go-to-market motion in one place, from acquisition through retention, with AI agents doing the work that legacy tools like Marketo, HubSpot, and Pardot can't. We've raised $28M+ from Abstract Ventures, True Ventures, and HOF Capital. The team is based in San Francisco and includes engineers, designers, and operators from Airbnb, Palantir, Pinterest, IMC, Shopify, LinkedIn, and Microsoft.

## About the Role

Hey there! James here 👋, co-founder at Conversion. Just wanted to share my thoughts on the perfect candidate we're looking for to be one our Founding Forward Deployed Engineers. So what exactly is a Forward Deployed Engineer? At Conversion, they turn enterprise customer needs into working AI deployments. A $100k+ deal does not survive on a nice pitch or a self-serve onboarding flow. It survives if the customer sees value in the pilot. Forward Deployed Engineers partner with Deployment Strategists to build, integrate, and deploy the technology that makes that value real.

- Technical sales enablement: Partnering with Deployment Strategists and the sales team to scope technical requirements, build proof-of-concepts, and demonstrate how Conversion can solve enterprise customers’ specific challenges.
- Customer integration and deployment: Building the integrations, data pipelines, and custom functionality needed to connect a customer’s existing marketing infrastructure to Conversion and get them successfully into production.
- Building for customer success: Working directly with customer teams and Deployment Strategists to translate marketing goals into deployed product features, AI workflows, and technical solutions that deliver measurable results.
- Shaping product: Working closely with engineering and product to turn lessons from customer deployments into reusable capabilities, helping ensure that what we build for one customer makes Conversion better for many.

This role is in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco.

You Might Be a Good Fit If You

- Have software engineering experience, and prefer staying close to customers while also shipping product
- Thrive cross-functionally, working alongside engineering, growth, and product
- Enjoy fast paced and dynamic environments

You Might Be a Great Fit If You

- Love helping customers, and gain fulfillment from seeing customers thrive and succeed with the products we build

Useful links Website: [https://conversion.ai/](https://conversion.ai) Learn more about our company culture here: https://conversion.ai/careers Read our Series A announcement here: [https://techcrunch.com/](https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/how-2-uc-berkeley-dropouts-raised-28m-for-their-ai-marketing-automation-startup/)

## About Conversion

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AI-native B2B marketing automation platform built to replace legacy tools like Marketo, Pardot, and HubSpot with agentic workflows and warehouse-native data.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; $28M led by Abstract Ventures)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021 (earliest known funding round)
- **Founders**: Neil Tewari (Co-Founder & CEO) and James Jiao (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Marketing Automation Software (MarTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B marketing operations (MOps) teams at high-growth and enterprise companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Marketers deserve better tools” – a modern platform that unifies CRM, warehouse, and product data to help teams ship campaigns in hours instead of weeks.

## Products & Services
- **Conversion Platform**: SaaS marketing automation platform with a flexible data model that connects Salesforce, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc. into a single context layer.
- **Conversion Agents**: AI agents that handle tickets, QA, reporting, and campaign builds on schedule, trigger, or on-demand – native to the platform.
- **Dynamic Email Studio**: Drag-and-drop builder with live CRM/warehouse fields, Liquid templating, and hyper-personalization.
- **Real-Time Workflows**: Visual workflow builder with branching, delays, and AI-powered actions that trigger in real time.
- **Segmentation & Query Engine**: Audience builder powered by CRM changes, product events, and enrichment data.
- **Reporting & Analytics**: Campaign performance tied to pipeline and revenue by persona, segment, and lifecycle stage.
- **Enterprise Features**: RBAC, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR compliance, SSO, bidirectional Salesforce sync with audit logs, A/B testing, forms & landing pages, campaign folders.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $32M (Series A $28M + earlier rounds); “nearly 8 figures in ARR” as of October 2025
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Abstract Ventures (lead), HOF Capital, True Ventures, Antler, and top angels from OpenAI and the AI/GTM ecosystem. Trusted by 4,000+ companies (over 5,000 per LinkedIn) including Clay, Abacum, Paraform, Warmly, and HockeyStack.
- **Growth Signals**: 75% reduction in MOps hours, 10x faster campaign launches, <15 min avg support response time, 1B+ real-time events processed; 23 employees with a lean, high-output team.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic AI native**: First agent layer built directly into a marketing automation platform – marketers describe what they want and AI agents execute.
- **Warehouse-native data model**: Unlike legacy MAPs, Conversion syncs full objects and events from data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery), enabling truly personalized, revenue-tied campaigns.
- **Modern UX & speed**: Drag-and-drop builder, real-time triggers, and no-code workflows that eliminate the need for SQL or RevOps specialists.
- **Enterprise-grade compliance**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, SSO, fine-grained RBAC, and full audit trails.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening the agentic AI capabilities and expanding the platform’s ability to orchestrate multi-channel campaigns.
- Scaling the go-to-market motion (hiring enterprise AE, GTM engineer, recruiters) and continuing to build out product, engineering, and design teams.
- Replacing legacy tools (Marketo, Pardot, HubSpot) in mid-market and enterprise accounts.

## Why Work Here
- **In-person culture**: Based in San Francisco office; hybrid with remote days. The team believes in-person collaboration makes them faster.
- **Compensation & equity**: Competitive with big tech, significant equity, generous PTO, 12 weeks paid parental leave, relocation support, rideshare credits, and free covered parking.
- **Daily perks**: Catered lunch, stocked pantry, wellness stipend, meals & snacks, team offsites (e.g., Hawaii), annual retreats, and regular social activities (Acai bowl Fridays, movie nights, fantasy football).
- **Engineering culture**: Fast-paced, customer-driven, with a focus on product craft. 20% of the team is technical; currently hiring senior/staff backend engineers, GTM engineer, growth designer, and more.

## Sources
1. [conversion.ai – Product page](https://conversion.ai/)
2. [conversion.ai – Company / Careers page](https://conversion.ai/company/)
3. [LinkedIn – Company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryconversion)
4. [conversion.ai – Series A announcement](https://conversion.ai/blog/series-a/)
5. [Latka – Company financials](https://getlatka.com/companies/conversion-ai)

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