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# Forward Deployed Engineer, Manager -London at Notion

- **Company:** [Notion](https://feeny.ai/companies/notion)
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/notion/0439c4a6-7a8e-4ffa-8cfd-28ce373acbd5

## Job description

## Who We Are

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents [think together](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkpYpWfEK5s). We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.

Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work.

## About the Role

As a Manager of Forward Deployed Engineering on Notion’s Services team, you will lead a team responsible for the hands-on technical delivery of our most complex customer engagements. Your team will design, build, and deploy production-ready solutions that help enterprise customers integrate Notion as the operating layer for their business. You will combine people leadership, technical judgment, and customer-facing delivery. You will coach Forward Deployed Engineers through discovery, architecture, implementation, and launch while remaining close enough to the work to guide difficult technical decisions, unblock delivery, and build trust with senior customer stakeholders. The team’s work includes custom code, production-grade agents and AI workflows using MCP, Agent APIs, and Notion’s automation and execution infrastructure, as well as integrations, data pipelines, enterprise migrations, and complex challenges involving scale, permissions, and governance. You will help establish how Services delivers complex technical implementations across EMEA. This includes building a high-performing team, improving delivery standards and reusable technical assets, partnering with Sales, Product, CX, and Engineering, and turning lessons from customer deployments into product and platform improvements.

## What You'll Achieve

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Forward Deployed Engineers delivering complex enterprise customer engagements across EMEA.
- Create a high-performance team environment with clear expectations, strong technical standards, effective feedback, and meaningful career development.
- Own the quality and outcomes of engagements from technical discovery and requirements gathering through solution design, implementation, launch, and handover.
- Act as a trusted technical and delivery advisor to customer engineering, IT, security, and business leaders, helping them make informed architectural decisions and deepen their use of Notion.
- Guide the design, build, and operation of custom agents, integrations, automations, and data pipelines that connect Notion with customers’ systems and workflows.
- Oversee large-scale content and data migrations, including discovery, scoping, data modeling, transformation logic, validation, cutover, and post-migration optimization.
- Review technical designs and implementation plans, identify delivery risks early, and step in directly when an engagement requires senior technical leadership.
- Partner with Sales and Services leaders on qualification, feasibility, scoping, effort estimation, staffing, and delivery planning for strategic opportunities.
- Balance customer priorities, team capacity, and technical complexity to make sound staffing and sequencing decisions.
- Help define and scale the operating model for Forward Deployed Engineering, including hiring, onboarding, delivery methodologies, quality reviews, documentation, and engineering best practices.

## Skills You'll Need to Bring

- 8+ years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, professional services, customer engineering, software engineering, or a similar hands-on technical role.
- 2+ years of experience managing, coaching, or leading engineers responsible for customer-facing technical delivery.
- A strong track record of hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing technical teams.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, SQL, or Python, with the technical depth to review production-quality code and guide implementation decisions.
- Hands-on experience with APIs, integrations, authentication, data transformation, and production systems.
- Experience leading technical discovery, assessing feasibility, identifying risks, scoping work, estimating effort, and translating ambiguous requirements into executable plans.
- Strong architectural judgment and debugging skills, with the ability to isolate root causes across code, APIs, permissions, integrations, data quality, automation logic, system limits, and customer-specific environments.
- Demonstrated success managing multiple complex customer engagements while maintaining quality, team health, and clear stakeholder communication.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and business audiences from practitioners through executive stakeholders.
- A customer- and outcomes-oriented approach, with sound judgment about when to standardize, when to customize, and how to manage tradeoffs.

Nice to Haves

- Experience building or scaling a Forward Deployed Engineering, professional services, or customer engineering function in a startup or high-growth environment.
- Experience deploying AI agents in complex coding or business workflows.
- Experience designing or implementing AI-powered workflows involving MCP, APIs, LLM applications, prompt engineering, retrieval or RAG systems, or workflow orchestration.
- Experience with ETL or ELT workflows, schema mapping, validation scripts, and large-scale content or data migration tooling.
- Experience partnering with product and engineering teams to influence roadmaps or architectural decisions based on customer implementation needs.
- Experience supporting pre-sales and early engagement phases, including technical discovery, migration scoping, feasibility analysis, effort estimation, prototypes, and custom scripts.
- Experience establishing technical delivery standards, quality review processes, discovery methodologies, or internal engineering tooling from the ground up.
- A strong track record of successful enterprise implementations across multiple industries or regions.

By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s [Global Recruiting Privacy Policy](https://notion.notion.site/Notion-Global-Recruiting-Privacy-Policy-fc3eb4e829354a26a2bb6fd5e289b550)[.](https://dev.notion.so/a3ce416456924276a59de91bca740028?pvs=21)

#LI-Onsite

A Note on AI You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on.

## Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Consistent with applicable law, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

## About Notion

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Notion is an all-in-one AI workspace that combines documents, databases, wikis, and project management into a single customizable platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (late-stage; last valuation $11B via secondary tender in January 2026)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Ivan Zhao (CEO), Simon Last (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Productivity software / AI workspace
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – freelancers, small teams, mid-market, and enterprise organizations
- **Mission**: “Make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.”

## Products & Services
- **Notion (Core Workspace)**: A flexible SaaS platform that replaces separate tools for notes, docs, knowledge bases, project tracking, and databases. Highly customizable with templates and integrations.
- **Notion AI**: Integrated AI assistant for writing, summarizing, brainstorming, and automating workflows within the workspace.
- **Notion API & Integrations**: Allows developers to build custom automations and connect Notion with other tools (Slack, Google Drive, Jira, etc.).
- **Notion Mail (in development)**: An AI-powered email client that rethinks inbox management, currently in beta.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $11 billion (set in a January 2026 secondary tender offer)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding approximately $347M (Series D in 2021 at $10B valuation); annual revenue not publicly disclosed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Tiger Global, CRV (past rounds); strategic partnerships with companies like Slack and Google.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew from ~800 (2024) to ~1,000 (2026); 148 open roles as of April 2026; global expansion with offices in San Francisco, New York, Dublin, Tokyo, Seoul, Hyderabad, Sydney, and more; heavy investment in AI features and enterprise sales.

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one flexibility**: Replaces multiple point solutions (Confluence, Evernote, Trello, etc.) with a single, highly customizable workspace.
- **Strong brand loyalty**: High NPS and 4.3/5 Glassdoor rating; 89% of employees would recommend working there.
- **AI-native integration**: Notion AI is deeply embedded into the core product, not a bolt-on, giving it an edge over legacy tools.
- **Engineering-driven culture**: CEO Ivan Zhao is deeply involved in product details, fostering a craft-obsessed engineering culture.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI leadership**: Expanding AI capabilities (AI Capture, AI Workflows, Agentic Search) to make Notion the central hub for both human and AI agent collaboration.
- **Enterprise adoption**: Building out sales, customer success, and security features to win larger accounts.
- **Global hiring**: Opening new offices in APAC and Europe to support international growth and talent acquisition.
- **Product expansion**: Developing new surfaces like Notion Mail and deepening integrations to increase stickiness.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Engineering-driven, transparent, and kind. Values include “Customer in every room,” “Own the outcome,” “Why not today?,” and “Direct and kind.”
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – required in-office Monday, Tuesday, Thursday; remote flexibility the other two days. Offices in major global cities.
- **Compensation**: Competitive – median engineer total compensation ~$330K, top-end ~$735K (2026 data). Includes equity, bonuses, and benefits.
- **Benefits**: Fully covered medical/dental/vision, flexible PTO, paid parental leave, mental health services (therapy, coaching), family-forming/fertility support, monthly lifestyle stipend, learning & development funds, commuter benefits, retirement plan with match, and more.
- **Growth**: 148 open roles across engineering, product, design, sales, customer experience, and more – strong signal of active scaling.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Explicit DEI programs, gender affirmation funds, and a commitment to building a diverse team.

## Sources
1. [Notion Careers Page](https://www.notion.com/careers)
2. [Notion Open Positions (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/notion)
3. [JobsByCulture – Working at Notion in 2026](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-notion-2026)
4. [Built In – Notion Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/notion)
5. [Notion Homepage](https://www.notion.com/)

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