Forward Deployed Engineering Manager III, GenAI, Google Cloud

Serve as the technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team. Partner with sales and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts (MLOps, GenMedia, or Agentic systems) to key accounts. Lead technical hiring for FDE, evaluating AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an exceptional engineering team. Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (MCP, tool-calling, and foundation models), ensuring the team maintains subject matter expertise in an evolving AI stack. Collaborate with product and engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.