Lead and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering team, driving strategic customer initiatives and building a high-performing function while navigating complex enterprise integrations.
At CoLab, we want to help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.
CoLab is a cloud based platform for engineering design review. We make it easy for subject matter experts (SMEs) across your business to access, evaluate, and comment on 2D drawings and 3D models. Our built-in AI peer checker, AutoReview, scans designs for common errors or non-compliance with your standards and guidelines. AutoReview creates markups and comments on your files, in context – just like a human checker.
With CoLab, human SMEs and AI work together to help you make better decisions and improve designs faster. We automatically capture knowledge from across your global business that would otherwise be buried in emails, spreadsheets, slide decks, and unknown locations in Sharepoint or PLM. Then, we make sure every lesson learned and every design guideline is applied exactly when it matters.
Companies like Johnson Controls, Komatsu, Schaeffler, and Polaris have launched products 40% faster, cut BOM costs by 50%, and reduced quality escapes by 15% in 1 year.
As Technical Director - FDE, you will lead and scale CoLab’s Forward Deployed Engineering team. You’ll be responsible for executing on the vision, hiring and developing a high-performing team, and personally leading the delivery of our most strategic, technically complex customer initiatives.
You’ll act as a technical leader and executive sponsor for key enterprise integrations and deployments, owning everything from architecture and strategy through to development, deployment and sustained customer value. You’ll work cross-functionally with customer success, product, engineering, and sales, while establishing repeatable processes and building a long-term foundation for this function.
This role is for someone who thrives on ambiguity, leads with clarity, and gets energy from turning ambiguous customer problems into successful, scalable solutions. You’ve done this before and you’re ready to do it again, even better.
You’ve built and led an FDE or Solutions Engineering team within a SaaS company - ideally involving deep integrations into enterprise systems. You know how to navigate complex customer environments, architect for scale and reliability, and lead both with technical depth and customer empathy.
You’re a builder at heart. You’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get involved in the work alongside the team when required. You can speak with confidence to external stakeholders, and you do it with clarity, humility, and high trust.
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Health Insurance
Includes extended health benefits
401k matching
RRSP/401k matching
Paid Time Off
Includes unlimited vacation
Remote-Friendly
Work remotely from anywhere in Canada or the US
CoLab Software builds a cloud-based platform called the Design Engagement System (DES) that transforms how engineering teams conduct design reviews. Our solution supports the largest engineering organizations across various industries, enabling them to streamline design conversations, catch mistakes early, and accelerate their product launch timelines.
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