
Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE - Healthcare
Required skills
- FDE
- Forward Deployed Engineer
- healthcare technology
- technical account management
- implementation
- SaaS
- AI
- payers
- providers
- revenue cycle management
Nice to have
- high-growth startup
- diplomat
- Data Science
Role summary
The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) acts as a crucial post-sale link between the company's product and healthcare clients. This role involves technical setup, KPI planning, and rollout support to ensure successful client onboarding and value extraction. The FDE will collaborate with customers to design impactful use cases, train users, create documentation, and translate client feedback into product improvements. They will also work cross-functionally with internal teams and identify opportunities for account growth and renewals. The ideal candidate blends technical acumen, business empathy, and strong customer EQ, with experience in healthcare technology, operations, and data integrations.
About the Role: Your Epic Quest as Our FDE!
You’re the Penguin glue, the vital link connecting our groundbreaking product with our customers. Post-sale, you'll be their go-to Penguin – building rock-solid trust, unblocking those integrations and ensuring they extract maximum value from Day 1 and beyond.
Get ready to wear many hats of differing shapes & sizes! You'll be part implementation lead, part use-case architect, part technical translator, and always, always the customer's fiercest advocate. This isn't just a job; it's a mission to transform healthcare one successful deployment at a time.
Your Day-To-Day Superpowers: What You'll Actually Do:
- Onboarding Orchestrator: Lead the charge for new clients, masterminding technical setup, KPI planning, and rollout support. You make sure their journey with us is smooth sailing
- Use Case Visionary: Collaborate with customers to design brand-new use cases that tackle their real, gritty healthcare business problems; no "pilot fluff" allowed, just measurable impact
- Empowerment Enthusiast: Patiently and energetically train users, run dynamic enablement sessions, and craft super-simple documentation that makes everyone exclaim, "Ohhh, now I get it!"
- Voice of the Customer: Act as our internal champion for client feedback, translating real-world insights into meaningful product improvements. You're their microphone!
- Cross-Functional Connector: Seamlessly collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing to ensure our customers experience a unified, friction-free journey
- Adoption & Growth Alchemist: Proactively identify and solve potential problems, earn those crucial renewals, and uncover expansion opportunities within accounts. You're building relationships, not just managing contracts
What We're Looking For: Your Unique Blend of Awesome!
We need someone who perfectly blends technical acumen, business empathy, and sky-high customer EQ.
- Healthcare Tech Whisperer (5-8 years): You've got serious experience in healthcare technology, technical account management, or implementation; bonus points if it’s in SaaS or AI environments
- Healthcare Operations Navigator (3-5 years): You know the ins and outs of payers, providers, and revenue cycle management like the back of your hand
- AI/ML Fluent: You're comfortable with AI/ML concepts. No need to build the model, but you absolutely know what it's doing and how to explain it
- Integration Guru: You speak the language of APIs, ETL, SQL, FHIR, HL7. You just get data integrations, even if you're not coding them
- Crystal Clear Communicator: You effortlessly bridge the gap between clients & internal teams, and have a proven record of creating engaging material to present to Senior / C suite level
- Proactive Pioneer: You don't wait for instructions; you hunt for value, tackle problems head-on, and make things happen
Bonus Points: Your Secret Weapons!
- You've not just survived but thrived in the beautiful chaos of a high-growth startup
- You’ve implemented AI or automation projects that delivered measurable undeniable impact
- Can calm a frazzled customer and gently push back when needed (the ultimate diplomat!)
- Can effortlessly transform vague customer feedback into crystal-clear product feature requests
The Culture Fit: Join Our Colony of Innovators!
You'll waddle with us if:
- You like your coffee with a side of delightful chaos
- You're fuelled by complexity and obsessed with delivering amazing results
- You want to deliver something that fundamentally matters, transforms healthcare and ultimately saves lives
- You believe customer success is more than just closing "support tickets", it's about long-term, transformative impact
Education & Qualifications: Brainiac Basics
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
Comp & Perks: Because Even Superheroes Need Support!
- Competitive salary: We reward greatness!
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage: Keep you healthy and smiling!
- Generous vacation policy and company holidays: Recharge and conquer!
- A front-row seat in one of healthcare's most exciting AI companies – witness history in the making!
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