About Us
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of advisory, audit, and tax practitioners at the world's largest CPA firms. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We’re headquartered in San Francisco, CA and backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.
We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.
As a growth stage startup employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by eliminating up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.
About the Role
Our forward deployed engineers (FDEs) work alongside practitioners at the world's largest audit firms. They build prototype agents on those firms' real workflows and ship production code. One current problem is producing verifiable citations from dense Excel workbooks, because an auditor has to trace every conclusion back to the exact evidence.
Our Senior Manager, Deployed Engineering role will start as a player-coach role where you will need to be hands on as we build and scale this effort. At the start, you'll be working directly in customer deployments, writing production code and solving the hardest technical problems yourself. You'll also build and lead the team around you.
As the team grows, your focus will move toward leadership, but you'll always be close to the work. You'll report to our CTO/co-founder and work closely and with Product, Engineering and Customer leadership.
What You'll Do
As a player:
Lead important deployments yourself. Own technical delivery for some of our largest enterprise customers, from scoping through production. This includes single-tenant and government-cloud environments, regulated data, and audit methods that differ from firm to firm.
Write production code. Build agents, integrations and tools alongside the team, and handle the hardest technical problems directly.
Be the senior technical voice with customers. Act as a trusted advisor to partners, CIOs and audit leaders on how AI agents fit their practice.
As a coach:
Build the FDE team. Hire, coach and grow strong engineers who can both build and work directly with customers. Set the bar through your own work first.
Make deployment repeatable. Turn what you learn from hands-on work into playbooks, tools and metrics that speed up time-to-value as we grow upmarket.
Turn field work into product. Spot patterns across deployments and work with Product and Engineering so solutions built for one customer become reusable platform features.
What We're Looking For
5+ years of leadership experience in forward deployed, deployment, solutions or customer engineering. That might mean FDE leadership at Palantir or a similar company, a Field CTO role, or leading technical work with large enterprise customers.
You still build. You've written production software recently and want to keep doing it. This role isn't a fit for someone looking for a manage-only role.
Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and excitement about building a team from an early stage.
Comfort in front of senior enterprise stakeholders, especially in regulated or complex environments.
Good judgment about building for one customer versus the platform, and the ability to push back on scope when it matters.
Excitement about bringing AI agents into high-stakes professional work.
Bonus Points
Experience at a Big 4 firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) or a major consulting firm such as Accenture, McKinsey, BCG or Bain.
Knowledge of audit, accounting, risk or compliance.
Experience deploying LLM or agent-based systems in production.
More about Fieldguide
Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:
Fearless - Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.
Fast - Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection.
Lovable - Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences.
Owners - Execute & run the business with ownership.
Win-win - Create mutual value & earn trust for life.
Inclusive - Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.
Some of our benefits include
Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
Flexible PTO
401k
Wellness benefits starting on your first day
Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
Flexible work schedules
Skills Required
- 5+ years of leadership experience in forward-deployed, deployment, solutions, or customer engineering
- Recent experience writing and shipping production software
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers
- Ability to work directly with senior enterprise stakeholders in regulated or complex environments
- Sound judgment regarding customer-specific development versus platform development
- Interest in applying AI agents to high-stakes professional work
- Experience at a Big Four accounting firm or major consulting firm
- Knowledge of audit, accounting, risk, or compliance
- Experience deploying LLM or agent-based systems in production
Fieldguide Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits materials and employer profiles outline comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage, alongside HSA/FSA and life/disability options. Some postings indicate wellness coverage beginning on day one.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Company materials describe flexible or unlimited PTO with paid sick days and holidays, supported by flexible schedules and remote options. This structure is presented as supporting work–life balance.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness benefits, including bundled therapy sessions, technology/work-from-home reimbursements, and regular company offsites, are highlighted across listings. These perks are positioned as part of a holistic total-rewards package.
Fieldguide Insights
What We Do
Build the expertise the rest of the industry will follow. Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners. We build agentic software for the people who enable trust between businesses. This is where deep professional expertise meets cutting-edge AI. Our team is reimagining how the world's trust is earned, and we're building the people who define how AI works in a domain with real stakes and high data complexity. If you want a career the rest of your industry hasn't caught up to yet, you'll find it here. Backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, and Y Combinator, we are on a growth journey few companies realize.
Why Work With Us
You'll matter here. We're an early-stage company where your work has outsized impact. We've already launched Field Agents, agentic AI that transforms audit and advisory workflows, and we're just getting started. What you build here will be followed by the rest of the industry.
Fieldguide Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
