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 "name": "FDE management-title postings (Forward Deployed Engineering manager, director, head, engagement and program titles), FDE Dispatch snapshot October 24, 2026",
 "publisher": "FDE Dispatch",
 "url": "https://fdedispatch.com/forward-deployed-engineering-manager/",
 "snapshot_date": "2026-10-24",
 "population": "Rows with role_family = management and in_page_stats = true in fde-postings-2026-10-24.json (the 71 FDE management or program titles within the 725-posting / 121-employer population counted on the salary, job titles, locations and travel pages).",
 "affiliation_note": "FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with any employer named here. Figures come from public job postings on the snapshot date.",
 "totals": {
  "management_postings": 71,
  "fde_family_postings": 725,
  "management_pct": 9.8,
  "engineer_family": 568,
  "deployment_strategist": 86,
  "employers_with_management_titles": 26,
  "fde_family_employers": 121,
  "employers_with_management_titles_pct": 21.5,
  "databricks_and_accenture": 37,
  "databricks_and_accenture_pct": 52.1,
  "other_employers": 24,
  "other_employers_postings": 34
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   "management_share_pct": 30.0
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  {
   "employer": "OpenAI",
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   "employer": "Parloa",
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   "employer": "Snorkel AI",
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  {
   "employer": "Adobe",
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  {
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  {
   "employer": "Applied Intuition",
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  {
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   "employer": "Chalk",
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  {
   "employer": "Cisco",
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  {
   "employer": "Cloudflare",
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  {
   "employer": "Datadog",
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  {
   "employer": "HackerRank",
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  {
   "employer": "Intercom (Fin)",
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  {
   "employer": "Labelbox",
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  {
   "employer": "Nebius",
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  {
   "employer": "Notion",
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  {
   "employer": "Stripe",
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   },
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    "postings": 10
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   {
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    "Snorkel AI": 1
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    "wording": "Other wording (Forward Deployed, Forward Deployment, AI Deployment Engineering)",
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   {
    "label": "Remote",
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   {
    "label": "OnSite",
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   {
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    "employer": "Intercom (Fin)",
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   {
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   {
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   {
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    "employer": "Databricks",
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