Principal Forward-Deployed Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with procurement teams and buying centers to assess 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 that encompass intake, negotiation, contracting, spend analysis, and post-signature supplier management.

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

• Independently contribute within an FDE pod and provide mentorship to newer team members on procurement domain patterns and agreement intelligence.

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

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

• Support FDEs through design and code evaluations and contribute to reusable procurement prompt libraries, workflow scaffolds, and agreement integrations.

• Develop AI-enabled agreement solutions, agentic intake workflows, and obligation management pipelines across Docusign IAM and enterprise procurement platforms.

• Prototype bi-directional integrations with SAP Ariba, Coupa, and Oracle Procurement Cloud to synchronize vendor master data, purchase requisition/purchase order generation, and pricing terms.

• Ensure a balance of quality, safety, latency, cost, and risk in the extraction of complex contractual terms.

• Deliver customized workflow configurations.

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

• Contribute reusable 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 building and deploying GenAI/LLM-powered solutions in client sandbox environments, ideally related to document intelligence or contract extractions.

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

• A minimum of 5 years of experience integrating applications with enterprise P2P/S2P software (e.g., SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle Procurement Cloud) or CLM systems.

• Capacity to travel approximately 50%, depending on the work and clients/industries served.

• 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.

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

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

• Familiarity with integrating intake and orchestration tools such as Zip, LevelPath, Oro, or ServiceNow with procurement backends.

• Excellent presentation abilities.

• Knowledge of security, privacy, and compliance considerations.

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

• States not eligible for employment: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus: Sales personnel are eligible for variable incentive pay based on their achievement of predefined sales goals; non-Sales roles qualify for a company bonus plan linked to eligible wages and overall company performance.

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

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

• Up to six months of paid parental leave.

• Comprehensive health benefits plans, including options for 100% employer-paid and minimum employee-contribution plans from day one.

• Retirement and pension programs with potential employer contributions.

• Learning and development opportunities, including coaching, online courses, and education reimbursements.

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

• Remote designation: employees work from a specified remote location for the majority of their time.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or religious needs during the application process.