Neo4j FDE

Director, Field Engineering and Strategy

  • Location San Mateo, CA
  • Seniority director
  • Posted 2026-09-06

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role details

Owns strategic planning, operational cadence, and performance infrastructure for the pre-sales/SE organization to scale against revenue targets.

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Skills

graph databasecapacity planningproductivity measurementtoolingenablement operationsGTM strategyorganizational designresource allocation

Excerpt from the original posting

About Neo4j: 

Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. It includes enterprise-ready knowledge graphs for accurate, explainable, and governed AI; the most comprehensive, trusted, and easy-to-deploy graph capabilities across any environment and data source; and an unmatched ecosystem trusted by 84 of the Fortune 100 and supported by the world’s largest graph community. Intelligence that works. Results that matter.

Built to work everywhere and integrate with everything across every cloud for dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems. We deliver quicker results, contextual knowledge, and solutions that impact customers and employees across the business.

Our Vision:  

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.   

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive. 

Role Summary 

The Director, Field Engineering and Strategy  is the operating partner for the Global Field Engineering organisation, embedded within the Office of the CRO's GTM Strategy & Execution function. This role owns the strategic planning, operational cadence, and performance infrastructure that enable the pre-sales/SE (“Field Engineering”) organization to scale efficiently against revenue targets. It translates GTM strategy into Field Engineering execution — capacity planning, coverage models, productivity measurement, tooling, and enablement operations — while acting as the primary strategic advisor to the VP, Global Field Engineering on organizational design and resource allocation.

  

This is a hybrid role: formal reporting into GTM Strategy & Execution ensures alignment with company-wide revenue planning and cross-functional GTM systems; the strong dotted line into Global Field Engineering ensures the work is grounded in field reality and has direct influence over how the SE organization is run day to day.

Key Responsibilities 

Headcount & Capacity Planning 

  

- Own the Field Engineering headcount model: current-state coverage, ratio benchmarking (SE:AE, SE:ARR, SE:Account), and forward capacity planning tied to pipeline and bo…

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