Madhive is the leading independent and fully customizable operating system built to help local media professionals build profitable, differentiated, and efficient businesses. Madhive empowers sales teams to extend their reach into streaming and connects local advertisers with the communities they serve. Madhive’s platform provides the unique ability to reach local audiences at national scale, with premium supply partnerships and end-to-end tools for planning, targeting, and measuring full-funnel campaign outcomes. Powering campaigns for over 30,000 small and medium businesses per day, Madhive is driving the evolution of local media.
Forward Deployed Engineer
About the Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at MadHive, you are a hybrid technical leader operating at the intersection of solution architecture, executive client partnership, and hands-on engineering.
You serve as the technical cornerstone for our most strategic enterprise clients. Your role is to understand the client's deepest business challenges, architect scalable technical solutions using MadHive’s infrastructure, and build the trusted relationships required to guide them through complex digital transformations. While you are a capable solutions architect / coder who can integrate systems, you are equally a strategist and a trusted advisor.
You thrive in ambiguous environments, possessing the executive presence to align client leadership and the technical chops to enable the Madhive technologies that accelerate time-to-value. You will report to the Senior Director of Client Solutions.
This is a hybrid role, working 3 days a week at Madhive HQ in the Financial District of New York City with travel to other Madhive locations or clients approximately 25-50%.
Core Responsibilities
- Unblock Technical Hurdles: Act as the ultimate technical problem solver, designing pragmatic workarounds and custom implementation strategies for unique client constraints.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with internal MadHive teams (Sales, Client Success, Product, and Core Engineering) to ensure a unified front and seamless client experience from pre-sales through long-term stabilization.
- Rapid Prototyping: Build functional prototypes, automation scripts, and lightweight tooling to accelerate onboarding and prove technical feasibility during critical deployment phases.
What We Look For (Requirements)
- 4+ years of experience in a client-facing technical role such as Solutions Architecture, Forward Deployed Engineering, Technical Consulting, or high-level Sales Engineering.
- Deep understanding of enterprise systems integration, AdTech integrations and value propositions, and complex data workflows.
- A subject matter expert leading hands-on with technical know-how, helping to determine methods and procedures on new product features and providing leadership to product managers or engineers.
- Bridge the gap between technical AI innovation and tangible business outcomes, partnering with GTM, Success, and Product squads to articulate value.
- Showcase how Maverick AI revolutionizes hand-off efficiency and multi-channel attribution for premier enterprise partners like Fox and Scripps.
- Exceptional communication skills. You can explain highly complex technical concepts to a non-technical CRO, and then pivot to debate integration concepts, API payloads, and other technical details with a client-side developer.
- Proven ability to navigate unstructured client environments and drive clarity and consensus among divergent stakeholders.
- Background in AdTech (DSP, SSP, broadcasting, programmatic advertising) is a massive plus.
How We Measure Success
Client Trust & Health: Your clients view you as an indispensable extension of their own technical team, reflected in smooth implementations and high retention.
Time-to-Value: Drastically reducing the timeline from a signed contract to a fully operational, revenue-generating technical integration.
Balanced Delivery: Successfully delivering complex solutions that require a blend of strategic relationship management and hands-on technical execution
The approximate compensation range for this position is $180,000-$210,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors, including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.
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We are Madhive
Madhive is a dynamic, diverse, innovative, and friendly place to work. We embrace our differences and believe they fuel our creativity. We come from varied backgrounds and think that’s important. Whether it’s taking ideas from previous lives and applying them in different ways or creating something completely new, we are all trail-blazing team players who think big and want to make an impact.
We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and collaboration. We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Please be advised that we will NOT be using third-party recruiting agencies for this search.
