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title: 'GTM Forward Deployed Engineer at Eliza'
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# GTM Forward Deployed Engineer at Eliza

- **Company:** Eliza
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eliza/e34df296-2e64-419e-a225-6e9f506d7668

## Job description

## ABOUT US

We are a technology services company dedicated to helping organizations build and deploy cutting-edge AI solutions. From generative AI and custom LLM integrations to predictive analytics and intelligent automation, we work across industries to bring real-world AI applications to life. Our projects combine deep technical expertise with hands-on client collaboration to solve high-impact problems.

## ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking a GTM Forward Deployed Engineer to own the motion from an early client conversation to a signed statement of work. Working as a direct partner to the Chief Commercial Officer and alongside our sales team, you will take the way Eliza nurtures opportunities and turn it into a repeatable, high-quality process for producing excellent statements of work. You are not just supporting deals — you are helping define how we shape, scope, and win them.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone deeply fluent in modern AI architecture and hands-on enough to prove it. You will translate business goals into technical solutions, hold a firm point of view on the right model for the right job, and build the proofs of concept that turn high-value opportunities into wins. As an early and influential hire on a small team, you will have real ownership over how we win and scope work as we grow — success means the Eliza way of shaping and winning deals lives in a repeatable process rather than in any one person's head.

## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Partner with Sales to Win Valuable Deals

- Work hand in hand with your sales counterparts to run a best-in-class pre-sales motion — one that wins valuable deals and sets clients up for high ROI.
- Qualify opportunities early with a clear point of view on fit, feasibility, and value, so we invest our time where it counts.
- Bring technical credibility into the room at the right moments, turning client interest into conviction.

1. Translate Business Goals into Technical Architecture

- Take a client's business goals and translate them into concrete technical architectures, orchestration frameworks, and specific data access methods.
- Hold a firm, well-reasoned point of view on the right model for the right job, and on the trade-offs behind each choice.
- Define scope, phases, and the shape of an engagement in a way that is both ambitious and deliverable.

1. Build Defensible Proofs of Concept

- Apply strong fluency across LLMs, databases, orchestration tools, and cloud APIs to design solutions that hold up to technical scrutiny.
- Get hands-on to build and deliver proofs of concept that prove value and help the team win high-value deals.
- Serve as the bridge between the commercial conversation and what Eliza can credibly deliver.

1. Author Excellent Statements of Work

- Author clear, compelling statements of work that set the right expectations and protect both the client and Eliza.
- Build credible estimates for effort, timeline, and pricing in partnership with delivery leads.
- Raise the bar on what an excellent SOW looks like, and make that standard repeatable.

1. Scale the Eliza Way

- Work side by side with the CCO to codify our approach into templates, playbooks, and a process the team can run consistently.
- Find where the path from opportunity to SOW slows down or varies, and fix it.
- Help the commercial function scale without losing the quality that sets Eliza apart.

## QUALIFICATIONS

Required

- A strong communicator who can hold both the client's perspective and Eliza's commercial interests at once.
- Deep fluency across LLMs, databases, orchestration tools, and cloud APIs, with a firm point of view on the right model for the right job.
- Hands-on ability to build and deliver defensible proofs of concept, not just describe them.
- A natural partner to sales, focused on a winning motion and real client ROI.
- Comfort with ambiguity and the pace of an early-stage company.

## Preferred

- Prior experience in pre-sales, solutions engineering, or forward deployed roles at a consulting or AI services firm.
- Experience authoring statements of work and building estimates for effort, timeline, and pricing.

## What We Offer

- Competitive compensation.
- Equity options in a growing AI services company.
- Flexibility to work across industries and problem domains.
- A collaborative, mission-driven team passionate about the real-world impact of AI.

## About Eliza

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Eliza is an AI-native consulting firm that helps enterprises integrate and adopt OpenAI's technology through training, workflow redesign, and custom AI system development.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Stephen Garden (CEO) and Brian Benedict (Co-founder, Chief Commercial Officer)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Enterprise AI Consulting & Implementation
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (large organizations, private equity firms, CPG companies)
- Mission: "Help enterprises integrate and adopt AI to transform operations, improve productivity, and accelerate innovation."

## Products & Services
- **Fusion**: AI fluency and training service – embeds AI Architects and enablement leaders to provide ChatGPT training and consulting, turning ChatGPT Enterprise into a productivity engine.
- **Flow**: AI-assisted workflow automation – simplifies and accelerates core processes such as customer support, employee onboarding, and finance approvals.
- **Forge**: Custom AI engineering – builds production-grade AI systems (intelligent agents, copilots, embedded automations) from proof-of-concept to deployment.
- **Client Services / Forward Deployed Engineering**: On-the-ground talent that translates business problems into AI-powered solutions, from use case discovery through delivery.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Notably, Eliza delivered $12.5M in value across deal intelligence solutions for a $4BN private equity firm and a 10,000+ user ChatGPT rollout for a global private equity firm.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: OpenAI Services Partner
- **Growth Signals**: 57 total employees (as of latest data); actively recruiting across multiple roles; described as "rapidly growing" on careers page; team collectively scaled 6 startups to over 4,000 employees and $500M in revenue.

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep partnership with OpenAI as an official Services Partner.
- Platform-powered services delivery model combining AI product leadership with tech services entrepreneurship.
- End-to-end offerings spanning training, workflow redesign, and custom software development – moving clients beyond pilots to production.
- Leadership team with experience scaling startups to significant revenue and headcount.

## Strategic Focus
- Helping enterprises move "from AI ambition to action" – bridging the gap between frontier AI technology and real enterprise impact.
- Focusing on building AI-fluent workforces, redesigning core workflows, and shipping production-grade AI systems that deliver measurable ROI.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-trust, high-autonomy teams; "curiosity is rewarded, growth is expected, and impact is shared." Emphasis on "builders, thinkers, and doers."
- **Work style**: In-office (Austin, TX). Employees work from physical offices.
- **Growth**: Described as a "launchpad for personal and professional growth" – "we move fast, but we invest in you faster."
- **Impact**: From day one, work on projects that drive real transformation for forward-looking organizations.
- **Team**: Collaborative environment with thoughtful technologists, strategists, and creatives solving novel problems.

## Sources
1. [eliza.com](https://eliza.com/)
2. [eliza.com/careers](https://eliza.com/careers)
3. [eliza.com/about](https://eliza.com/about)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/eliza](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eliza)
5. [builtin.com/company/eliza](https://builtin.com/company/eliza)

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