Forward Deployed Engineer, GTM

Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work feels faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, humanity, and building things that last — not just shipping the next feature, but setting a standard for how modern teams (with humans and agents working together) think and execute. About The Role As a Forward Deployed Engineer within Go-To-Market, you will lead complex customer engineering engagements from end to end, spanning large-scale migrations, integrating Notion with third party systems and tools, and production AI/agentic deployments. You’ll embed with enterprise customers to design and build solutions that integrate Notion deeply into their technical and operational environments. This includes writing and maintaining custom code, designing and deploying production-grade custom agents and AI workflows with MCP, Agent APIs, and Notion’s automation and execution infrastructure, building data pipelines, and resolving complex challenges around scale, permissions, and governance. Your work as a customer-facing engineer will help shape best practices for how we support complex customer needs and ensure Notion’s platform is ready for scale. What You'll Achieve Own the hands-on technical delivery of customer engagements, including deep technical discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, and end to end implementation. Act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers make informed architectural decisions and identify opportunities to expand and deepen their use of Notion. Design, build, and operate custom agents, integrations, automations, and data pipelines that connect Notion with customers’ systems and workflows. Lead the design and execution of large-scale content and data migrations, including discovery, scoping, data modeling, transformation logic, validation, and post-migration optimization. Work closely with client stakeholders to gather business and technical requirements and translate them into well-architected solutions that maximize the value of the Notion platform within their broader technical ecosystem. Design and build customer integrations, automations, and custom tooling as a part of Notion implementations. Design and operate feedback loops with Product, CX, and Engineering, translating real-world implementation challenges into actionable insights, technical requirements, and tooling improvements that directly influence Notion’s Product Roadmap and our Customers Build foundational discovery frameworks, technical standards, and internal tooling that define how Services delivers complex migrations and implementations at scale. Contribute to the evolution of the Services team by developing repeatable methodologies, scoping artifacts, internal tooling, and contributing best practices as the team and customer footprint grow. Skills You'll Need to Bring 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing engineering role, forward deployed engineering, or similar role, preferably in a SaaS or enterprise software environment. Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, SQL, or Python and comfort with writing production-quality code in customer-facing or internal engineering contexts. Hands-on experience with APIs and data integration. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and business audiences effectively. A track record of delivering customer value by translating technical challenges into solutions that drive value for customers at scale. Nice to Haves Experience working in SaaS professional services, preferably in a startup or high-growth environment. Experience deploying AI agents autonomously in complex coding or business workflows. Background in developing technical frameworks, discovery methodologies, or internal tooling from the ground up. Strong history of collaboration with product and engineering teams, including influencing roadmaps or architectural decisions. Experience supporting pre-sales or early engagement phases, including technical discovery, migration scoping, feasibility analysis, effort estimation, and building prototypes or custom scripts to validate approaches. Strong track record of successful enterprise customer implementations. Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated range for total on target earnings (including base salary and on target incentive pay) for this role is $175,000 - $240,000 per year. By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy and NYLL 144 . #LI-Onsite A Note on AI You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we’ll make it explicit in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, move faster, and build more creatively. Equal Opportunity & Accommodations We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our teams to reflect the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed, we still encourage you to apply. Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.