Serval

AI

HeadofDeployment

$250–400k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Head of Deployment at Serval. Skills: Deployment, AI platform, Customer success, Team building. Build and lead Deployed Software Engineering function. Own customer implementations and pilots”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensuring customers realize immediate value; Feed critical insights back into product and engineering; Rapid, reliable value delivery for strategic accounts; Deployment velocity; Adoption; Satisfaction across accounts

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Solve unique customer challenges

Eligibility Requirements

Based in or willing to work from our SF HQ, 5 days/week, Occasional travel to customers

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7–10+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years leading technical or customer-facing teams, Proven track record of building and scaling Software Engineering teams in a fast-paced SaaS or AI environment, Technical foundation — capable of reading and writing production code, building APIs, and debugging distributed systems, Experience working directly with enterprise customers on deployments, integrations, and architecture design, Excellent communication skills, Builder’s mindset: thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and creates process where none exists, Deep customer empathy and the ability to balance short-term needs with long-term platform evolution, Based in or willing to work from our SF HQ, 5 days/week

Nice to Have

Prior startup experience as an early technical or engineering leader, Knowledge of IT, Security, or workflow automation domains, Comfort working with LLM-based or AI agent systems in production, Opinions on how “agentic” deployment teams should operate and measure success

What You'll Do.

Build and lead Deployed Software Engineering function

Own customer implementations and pilots

Write production-quality code

Extend Serval’s platform

Solve unique customer challenges

Develop reusable onboarding frameworks

Translate field learnings into roadmap priorities

Guide customers through automation design

Drive technical strategy for migrations

Establish metrics and systems

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with Product & Engineering; Translate field learnings into roadmap priorities; Act as a trusted advisor to customers’ IT and Security leaders

Communication Scope

Translate between technical and executive audiences

Full Job Description

WHO WE ARE Serval http://serval.com is an AI-native automation platform transforming how enterprises operate. We build intelligent agents that understand real-world workflows and execute them end-to-end — replacing manual processes and rigid legacy systems with adaptive, learning software. Founded in early 2024, Serval is already trusted by companies like Fox, Notion, Perplexity, Vercel, and Brex to automate high-volume, high-friction operational work across their organizations. At the core of Serval is an agentic AI platform that turns natural language into production-grade workflows. Our agents don’t just respond to requests — they reason, take action across systems, and continuously improve with usage. What began with operational use cases has quickly evolved into a horizontal AI automation layer used across IT, HR, Finance, Security, Legal, and Engineering. Our mission is to eliminate repetitive, manual work across the enterprise and give teams leverage through intelligent automation. Long term, we’re building the universal AI operations layer — a system of agents that sits across business functions and runs the workflows that keep modern companies moving. We’re backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Meritech, First Round, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, and others, and founded by product and engineering leaders from Verkada. ROLE OVERVIEW As Head of Deployment, you’ll build and lead the team that sits closest to Serval’s customers — where product meets reality. You’ll own how we deploy Serval’s AI platform into complex IT environments, ensuring customers realize immediate value while feeding critical insights back into product and engineering. You’ll start as a hands-on technical leader — writing code, leading high-stakes pilots, and designing scalable onboarding processes — then grow a team of forward deployed engineers who blend software engineering, customer empathy, and systems thinking. This role is ideal for someone who’s op

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