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# Senior Manager, Deployed Engineering at Fieldguide

- **Company:** Fieldguide
- **Location:** San Francisco CA OR, United States
- **Compensation:** $210k–$305k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fieldguide/74e28d0e-379b-4184-a8c8-a773f7e234b6

## Job description

## About Us

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of advisory, audit, and tax practitioners at the world's largest CPA firms. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses. We’re headquartered in San Francisco, CA and backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more. We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth. As a growth stage startup employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by eliminating up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.

## About the Role

Our forward deployed engineers (FDEs) work alongside practitioners at the world's largest audit firms. They build prototype agents on those firms' real workflows and ship production code. One current problem is producing verifiable citations from dense Excel workbooks, because an auditor has to trace every conclusion back to the exact evidence. Our Senior Manager, Deployed Engineering role will start as a player-coach role where you will need to be hands on as we build and scale this effort. At the start, you'll be working directly in customer deployments, writing production code and solving the hardest technical problems yourself. You'll also build and lead the team around you. As the team grows, your focus will move toward leadership, but you'll always be close to the work. You'll report to our CTO/co-founder and work closely and with Product, Engineering and Customer leadership.

## What You'll Do

As a player:

- Lead important deployments yourself. Own technical delivery for some of our largest enterprise customers, from scoping through production. This includes single-tenant and government-cloud environments, regulated data, and audit methods that differ from firm to firm.
- Write production code. Build agents, integrations and tools alongside the team, and handle the hardest technical problems directly.
- Be the senior technical voice with customers. Act as a trusted advisor to partners, CIOs and audit leaders on how AI agents fit their practice.

As a coach:

- Build the FDE team. Hire, coach and grow strong engineers who can both build and work directly with customers. Set the bar through your own work first.
- Make deployment repeatable. Turn what you learn from hands-on work into playbooks, tools and metrics that speed up time-to-value as we grow upmarket.
- Turn field work into product. Spot patterns across deployments and work with Product and Engineering so solutions built for one customer become reusable platform features.

## What We're Looking For

- 5+ years of leadership experience in forward deployed, deployment, solutions or customer engineering. That might mean FDE leadership at Palantir or a similar company, a Field CTO role, or leading technical work with large enterprise customers.
- You still build. You've written production software recently and want to keep doing it. This role isn't a fit for someone looking for a manage-only role.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and excitement about building a team from an early stage.
- Comfort in front of senior enterprise stakeholders, especially in regulated or complex environments.
- Good judgment about building for one customer versus the platform, and the ability to push back on scope when it matters.
- Excitement about bringing AI agents into high-stakes professional work.

Bonus Points

- Experience at a Big 4 firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) or a major consulting firm such as Accenture, McKinsey, BCG or Bain.
- Knowledge of audit, accounting, risk or compliance.
- Experience deploying LLM or agent-based systems in production.

More about Fieldguide Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:

- Fearless - Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.
- Fast - Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection.
- Lovable - Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences.
- Owners - Execute & run the business with ownership.
- Win-win - Create mutual value & earn trust for life.
- Inclusive - Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.

Some of our benefits include

- Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
- Flexible PTO
- 401k
- Wellness benefits starting on your first day
- Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
- Flexible work schedules

## About Fieldguide

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fieldguide is an AI-native platform that automates audit and advisory engagements for professional services firms, replacing manual workflows with agentic AI and collaborative tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $125.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Jin Chang (CEO/Co-Founder) and Chris Szymansky (CTO/Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Vertical AI for Audit & Advisory (Regulatory Compliance, Risk Advisory, Financial Audit, SOC Readiness, IT Audit, Cybersecurity & Privacy, ESG)
- **Target Customers**: B2B — Audit and advisory practices (CPA firms, risk advisory firms, internal audit teams) ranging from top 100 firms to regional practices. Clients include KPMG, RSM US LLP, Baker Tilly, BDO, Grant Thornton, Forvis Mazars, CLA, CohnReznick, and many others.
- **Mission/Purpose**: "Increase trust in commerce and capital markets" by amplifying the assurance and advisory engagement experience through automation and AI.

## Products & Services
- **Fieldguide AI Platform**: The core end-to-end engagement management platform where practitioners and AI agents work together. Covers planning, testing, evidence review, reporting, and client collaboration.
- **Field Agents (Agentic AI)**: Purpose-built AI agents that automate end-to-end test procedures — validating evidence, summarizing results, and flagging exceptions. Includes Testing Agents, Substantive Testing Agents, Request Agents, and Agentic Chat.
- **AI Actions**: Handles recurring tasks across entire workpapers (drafting walkthroughs, suggesting test plans).
- **Client Hub**: Automated modern request management with a client-facing portal.
- **Reporting Automation**: One-click collaborative report generation.
- **Document Management**: Enterprise-grade workpaper management.
- **End-to-End Engagement Management**: Centralized platform for planning, execution, and delivery across every practice area and methodology.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (last round: Series C, $75M, announced February 2026)
- **Total Funding**: $125.3M (8 rounds)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $7.5M (156 employees)
- **Notable Investors**: Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead, Series C), Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Thomson Reuters, Y Combinator, Floodgate, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Qasar Younis, Eric Ries. Corporate investment from KPMG (2025).
- **Growth Signals**: 64.5% YoY headcount growth (+78 people); 50% of the top 100 firms trust Fieldguide; 32% reduction in engagement hours for customers; 70% reduction in manual testing time; 95% reduction in manual testing time for certain workflows; error rate of less than 1% versus manual processes; 5-time winner of CPA Practice Advisor Technology Innovation Award.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical AI Moat**: Purpose-built for regulated audit and advisory environments, not a generic AI tool. Field Agents are trained on industry standards (SOX, HIPAA, FFIEC, HITRUST, PCI DSS) and firm methodologies.
- **Founder-Market Fit**: Both co-founders have deep industry experience — Jin Chang spent 5 years at EY in audit & advisory; Chris Szymansky has a technical background and founded a crypto tax automation company.
- **Network Effects**: As more firms use the platform, the AI agents improve across methodologies and regulatory frameworks, creating a data moat.
- **Top-Tier Customer Base**: Already adopted by 50% of the top 100 firms, including Big Four (KPMG) and national leaders (RSM, Baker Tilly, BDO, Grant Thornton), providing credibility and a strong reference base.
- **Capital & Strategic Backing**: Backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer, 8VC, and a strategic investment from KPMG — signaling both financial strength and industry validation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic AI First**: Doubling down on autonomous AI agents that execute testing, documentation, and evidence review, allowing practitioners to focus on judgment and client impact.
- **Platform Expansion**: Moving beyond audit into risk advisory, SOC, ESG, cybersecurity, and other assurance practices — becoming the single platform for all trust services.
- **Geographic Growth**: Expanding presence with offices/hubs in San Francisco (HQ), Denver, New York, Seoul, Los Angeles, Austin, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Toronto, London, Seattle, and Singapore.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (+105.6% YoY job posting growth) across engineering, customer success, sales, and marketing to scale the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Work that directly increases trust in commerce and capital markets — a meaningful, high-impact problem.
- **Remote-Friendly Culture**: Described as a "remote-friendly, global company" with hubs across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, South Korea, and Singapore. Not fully remote but flexible.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: Cross-functional teams with autonomy and focus on core metrics. Engineers work on cutting-edge agentic AI problems in a high-regulation environment.
- **Learning Opportunity**: Daily exposure to industry experts (former auditors on staff) who share knowledge — no prior audit experience needed.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Competitive compensation, stock options, flexible PTO, wellness benefits, technology reimbursement, company offsites.
- **Culture Values**: "Loveable" (create mutual value, earn trust), "Fearless" (inspire, break down walls), "Fast" (launch fast, iterate to perfection), "Inclusive" (scale best ideas with inclusive teams), "Owners" (execute with ownership), "Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences."
- **Talent Density**: Team includes alumni from Meta, Amazon, Brex, Carta, EY, Thomson Reuters, FloQast, LaunchDarkly — high-caliber peers.

## Sources
1. [fieldguide.io](https://www.fieldguide.io/)
2. [fieldguide.io/about](https://www.fieldguide.io/about)
3. [fieldguide.io/careers](https://www.fieldguide.io/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/fieldguide-inc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fieldguide-inc)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/fieldguide](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fieldguide)

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