Director, Forward Deployed Engineering

LIFE AT UIPATH The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. We’re committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power. To make that happen, we need people who are curious, self-propelled, generous, and genuine. People who love being part of a fast-moving, fast-thinking growth company. And people who care—about each other, about UiPath, and about our larger purpose. Could that be you? Role Overview As a Director of Forward Deployed Engineering, you will lead a senior team responsible for UiPath’s most strategic customer engagements and help define how the Forward Deployed Engineering function scales across the company. You will operate beyond the scope of individual delivery oversight, shaping the technical, organizational, and customer operating model for complex AI and automation programs. This role requires a combination of organizational leadership, deep technical fluency, executive customer engagement, and cross-functional influence. You will be accountable not only for the success of the engagements your team leads, but also for the broader systems that make those engagements successful, including talent quality, portfolio health, delivery standards, executive stakeholder alignment, reusable technical patterns, and the translation of field insight into product and company action. You will serve as both a people leader and a senior technical and business leader, helping UiPath deliver transformative outcomes for strategic customers while strengthening the long-term capabilities of the FDE organization. Key Responsibilities People Leadership & Team Development Recruit, hire, and retain top-tier Forward Deployed Engineering talent, building a team with the technical depth and customer acumen required for strategic engagements. Develop Principal and Sr. Principal FDEs through coaching, career planning, and targeted stretch opportunities that prepare them for technical and leadership progression. Set clear performance expectations, deliver candid feedback, and manage performance issues with fairness and rigor. Foster a team culture that values technical excellence, customer empathy, rapid learning, and collaborative problem-solving. Create development paths that accommodate both individual contributors and management tracks, ensuring the team retains its strongest technical talent. AI Engineering & Platform Mastery Define the technical and operational strategy for Forward Deployed Engineering across UiPath’s most strategic customer programs, shaping how the organization delivers enterprise AI and agentic automation at scale. Synthesize field signals across engagements into roadmap, platform, and investment priorities, and establish the reference architectures, governance models, and delivery standards that define how FDE teams build reusable, enterprise-ready AI solutions. Lead organizational standards for agent engineering, prompt operations, evaluation frameworks, LLM governance, and production deployment practices, while determining where the function should invest in emerging technologies and ecosystem capabilities. Set the bar for performance optimization, cost discipline, security posture, and reliability across customer implementations, ensuring the FDE organization delivers consistent, high-quality outcomes in production. Technical Excellence, Innovation & Delivery Define the technical and organizational standards that shape how Forward Deployed Engineering delivers AI and agentic automation across UiPath’s most strategic engagements. Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve scalability, consistency, and execution quality across teams, and translate customer insight, field patterns, and market signals into technical direction, co-innovation priorities, and product influence. Establish durable mechanisms to spread best practices and institutionalize learning across the function, while representing UiPath’s forward-deployed e