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# Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer at Sandstone

- **Company:** Sandstone
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sandstone/06284122-3dd8-4e1e-9028-a45ece5b043e

## Job description

## About Us

Sandstone is on a mission to elevate in-house legal from a support function into a true strategic partner. From day one, we’ve been clear about what we are—and are not. We are not replacing in-house legal teams. We are building a platform that amplifies them.

Our platform enables modern legal teams to move at the speed of AI, deliver better outcomes, and create measurable business value. We unify legal data, power end-to-end workflows, and organize business context within the tools teams already use. Sandstone is the home for AI-native legal departments.

Today, Sandstone is trusted by Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing innovators alike. We ship quickly, iterate relentlessly, and scale with intention.

When you join Sandstone, you become part of a team that believes deeply in the compounding power of collaboration, rigorous problem-solving, and obsessive attention to detail. Our engineering team is elite, our lawyers ship code every day, and we are dedicated to building the most delightful product an in-house lawyer opens in the morning—and closes at the end of the day.

## About the Role

We’re seeking Founding Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDE) to serve as the technical face of Sandstone for a cohort of in-house legal teams post-sale, owning engagements from onboarding through adoption, expansion, and renewal.

Our FDEs are fully ambidextrous: they sit on our Post-Sales team and they also meet or exceed the technical caliber of our core software engineers. Our Post-Sales team is relentlessly focused on customer outcomes, while our core engineers are relentlessly focused on executing the product roadmap. Sometimes those are the same thing - in a perfect world, our product roadmap would always be seamlessly aligned with what is needed for customer success. The reality is that often the two are not perfectly aligned, however. Discerning and navigating the difference - in real time on a customer call - is the essence of success in this role.

This is not a sales role. This is a systems and outcomes role — owning how Client readiness translates into strong adoption, retention, and expansion.

You'll be a builder: designing programs, defining standards, and working directly with in-house legal teams to ensure early success and long-term scale.

## What You’ll Do

- Build software end to end that enables the success of our largest customers - understanding customer pain points, scoping product specs, and delivering high-quality solutions.
- Own a portfolio of accounts, establishing a strong foundation for long-term adoption and clear, measurable client outcomes from day one.
- Drive sustained product adoption through structured enablement programs, tailored success plans, regular engagement, and proactive usage optimization.
- Act as a trusted strategic advisor to legal and operational leaders—aligning Sandstone to client goals, uncovering new use cases, and helping teams re-imagine how legal work gets done.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Legal Engineering, and Marketing to translate customer feedback into actionable insights that shape our roadmap, messaging, and go-to-market strategy.
- Design, refine, and operationalize Sandstone's engagement playbook at scale. We’re building this machine together—your ideas and execution won’t just be welcomed, they’ll be expected.

## What You Bring

- You bring 4+ years of experience as an Forward Deployed Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, or a related role within a high-growth B2B SaaS environment, ideally in LegalTech. Alternatively, you'll bring nuanced, high ownership experience as a technical founder of your own startup.
- You have a demonstrated track record of entrepreneurship or of success in an unstructured environment - you’re hungry, low ego, and generative.
- You have the empathy to understand what a customer is feeling and the emotional intelligence to know how to interact smoothly with them.
- You’re comfortable owning senior stakeholder relationships, driving adoption, and delivering commercial outcomes in a fast-moving setting.
- As a bonus, you come from the world of law—but you’ve never been content with how things have always been done.

Working at Sandstone: Benefits & Perks

- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance; 401K
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Flexible time off (20+ days PTO)
- Annual learning & development stipend
- Technology stipend, including unlimited spend on AI tooling
- Daily lunch for in-office team members

At Sandstone, we value high ownership, flexibility, and curiosity. You'll have an outsized impact, work closely with ambitious colleagues, and help transform how legal teams work for the modern age.

## About Sandstone

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sandstone builds a Legal Relationship Management platform that uses AI agents to unify intake, workflows, and data for in-house legal departments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Nick Fleisher (CEO), Jarryd Strydom (COO), Liam Germain (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Legal Technology (Legal AI, Legal Operations)
- **Target customers**: B2B – In-house legal departments at enterprises and mid-market companies
- **Mission**: Elevate in-house legal from a support function into a true strategic partner by building a platform that amplifies legal teams with AI-native workflows and unified context.

## Products & Services
- **Legal Relationship Management Platform**: A SaaS platform that integrates with over 50 existing tools (Slack, procurement, CRM, etc.) to provide intake, triage, redlining, drafting, approvals, vendor management, clause libraries, and custom reporting. AI agents proactively gather context and route work to the right owner.
- **AI Agents**: Agentic workflows that understand legal context, respect permissions, and automate repetitive tasks like contract review and comment handling.
- **Analytics & Reporting**: Custom dashboards for cycle times, risk exposure, capacity, and deviation rates.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: $10M in total seed funding (announced January 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners, and over 20 General Counsel from companies like eBay, Bilt, Flatiron Health, Okta, and Sun Microsystems founders.
- **Growth Signals**: 28 employees as of mid-2026, with 6.1% monthly headcount growth; actively hiring across engineering, sales, and design roles; backed by top-tier investors; team includes veterans from Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, McKinsey, DocuSign, Carta, and leading law firms.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Built by legal practitioners**: Founders and core team include former in-house counsel, legal ops experts, and software engineers who experienced the pain points firsthand.
- **Deep integrations**: Over 50 pre-built integrations allow the platform to layer on top of existing tech stacks without forcing workflow changes.
- **AI-native design**: Agentic workflows that proactively gather context and route work, rather than just document storage.
- **Strong advisor network**: Backed by Fortune 500 GCs and leading legal tech operators.

## Strategic Focus
- **Transform legal departments**: Shift legal teams from reactive, process-heavy operations to proactive, strategic partners.
- **Scale go-to-market**: Building out sales teams (Enterprise and Mid-Market Account Executives) to capture the in-house legal market.
- **Product expansion**: Continuing to develop AI agents, reporting, and integrations to cover the full lifecycle of legal work.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: “Everyone Ships, Everyone Sells” – all team members push code and contribute to sales. Values include Ship Relentlessly, Earn Trust, Simplicity Wins, and Do the Hard Things.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid workspace in New York, NY. In-office culture with catered meals, team events, and dogs encouraged (especially Sandy).
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and fully covered medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- **Engineering Excellence**: Investment in tooling to multiply output; team includes engineers from top tech companies; focus on shipping quickly and learning.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Early-stage company with strong backing, offering the chance to shape a product and category from the ground up.

## Sources
1. [Sandstone.com](https://sandstone.com/)
2. [Sandstone About Page](https://sandstone.com/about)
3. [Sandstone Careers Page](https://sandstone.com/careers)
4. [LinkedIn – Sandstone](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sandstone-ai)
5. [Built In – Sandstone](https://builtin.com/company/sandstone-1)

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