Serval

AI

HeadofDeployment

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

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