Principal Forward-Deployed Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +9 more states.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with procurement teams and buying centers to determine business requirements and convert S2P and supplier agreement use cases into production-ready IAM solutions.

• Work alongside CPOs, sourcing directors, category managers, legal operations, and IT architects throughout the agreement lifecycle.

• Facilitate discovery and design sessions for intake, negotiation, contracting, spend analysis, and supplier management solutions after signing.

• Design and implement AI agreement solutions utilizing IAM capabilities, vendor hubs, and automated obligation extraction frameworks.

• Independently contribute within an FDE pod while mentoring junior team members on procurement domain patterns and agreement intelligence methodologies.

• Guide client procurement teams, sourcing managers, and end users on platform functionalities, supplier data model configurations, and AI enablement.

• Create procurement demonstrations and proofs of concept, express measurable business value, and document solution design transitions.

• Mentor FDEs through design and code evaluations and develop reusable procurement prompt libraries, workflow structures, and agreement integrations.

• Construct AI-enhanced agreement solutions, agentic intake workflows, and obligation management pipelines integrating Docusign IAM with enterprise procurement systems.

• Develop prototypes for bi-directional integrations linking Docusign IAM with SAP Ariba, Coupa, and Oracle Procurement Cloud to synchronize vendor master data, PR/PO creation, and pricing agreements.

• Make architectural choices that balance quality, safety, latency, cost, and risk reduction when extracting intricate contractual terms.

• Implement workflow configurations.

• Design scalable vendor hierarchy models, support contract family tracking, and ensure alignment with senior technical and business architects.

• Provide reusable procurement assets, including S2P workflow templates, extraction models, renewal agent briefs, and ERP connector implementations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Science, or Engineering.

• Over 12 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science, or analytics engineering.

• At least 1 year of practical experience in developing and deploying GenAI/LLM-powered solutions in client sandbox environments, ideally in document intelligence or contract extractions.

• More than 12 years of experience leading project workstreams with procurement or legal stakeholders, translating business/sourcing challenges into AI agreement solutions.

• Over 5 years of experience in integrating applications with enterprise P2P/S2P software, such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle Procurement Cloud, or CLM systems.

• Willingness to travel approximately 50% of the time.

• Profound understanding of Source-to-Pay (S2P) procurement lifecycles, intake-to-procure orchestration, and supplier lifecycle management.

• Experience in configuring or developing solutions on Docusign IAM, Navigator, Workflow, or CLM platforms.

• Proven ability to collaborate directly with client technical teams, CPOs, and category managers in fast-paced and ambiguous delivery settings.

• Data engineering experience involving contract data pipelines, table extraction models, vendor master deduplication, or spend analytics.

• Experience interfacing intake and orchestration tools like Zip, LevelPath, Oro, or ServiceNow with procurement backends.

• Excellent presentation skills.

• Awareness of security, privacy, and compliance issues.

• Must already possess authorization to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis without current or future sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Variable incentive pay for sales personnel based on the achievement of pre-established sales targets.

• Company bonus plan for non-sales roles, calculated as a percentage of eligible wages and dependent on company performance.

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

• Paid time off and company holidays based on regional policies.

• Up to six months of paid parental leave following birth, adoption, or foster care placement.

• Comprehensive health benefits plans, including options for 100% employer-paid and minimal employee-contribution health plans from the first day of employment.

• Retirement and pension programs with potential employer contributions.

• Coaching, online courses, and education reimbursement opportunities.

• Paid compassionate care leave following the loss of a loved one and other significant life events.

• Remote work designation.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for religious practices.