Sr. Technical Program Manager, FDE Engagements
Application analysis
Sr. Technical Program Manager, FDE Engagements at MongoDB is a forward deployed database platform role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
Reading this role
This Forward Deployed Engineer role centers on embedded customer delivery — discovery, prototyping, integration, and production rollout.
About MongoDB
MongoDB field engineers guide migrations, performance tuning, and Atlas adoption for production workloads. The role is anchored in Mexico City, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Stand out for Sr. Technical Program Manager, FDE Engagements
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Sr. Technical Program Manager, FDE Engagements to a specific customer or deployment you owned — MongoDB hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Prepare a 5-minute “week one on site” plan: who you would meet, what you would inspect in their stack, and what artifact you would deliver by day five.
- Show you can go from discovery notes → working integration → production checklist without needing a large internal team.
- This role is tied to Mexico City — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at MongoDB
- Demonstrate document data modeling with a concrete example — MongoDB will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate performance troubleshooting with a concrete example — MongoDB will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- They look for people who can diagnose slow queries live and explain tradeoffs to app teams without jargon.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on mongodb.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
This role oversees the lifecycle of forward-deployed engineering engagements in which MongoDB Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) partner closely with customer engineering teams to build working agents. It is a high-impact role at the intersection of customer delivery, AI agent development, and product feedback. By working closely with customers during implementation, the Sr. Technical Program Manager helps shape real-world agent outcomes, demonstrate the value of MongoDB’s platform in live enterprise environments, and bring back insights that can inform future product direction. These engagements are designed to help customers realize business value from our platform, accelerate successful agent delivery, and generate product feedback through close collaboration during implementation. The Sr. Technical Program Manager, FDE Engagements drives successful delivery by aligning stakeholders, managing risks and dependencies, removing operational blockers, and ensuring clear ownership, communication, and decision-making across the engagement lifecycle. In partnership with FDE, Product, Engineering, account teams, and customer stakeholders, this role is accountable for program execution and engagement outcomes. If an action item does not yet have an explicitly assigned owner, the Sr. Technical Program Manager is responsible for driving assignment and follow-through until ownership is clear. Pre-customer environment access
Main goals:
Secure access to the customer's internal collaboration and development tooling as early as possible Align on the intended behavior, functionality, and architecture of the agents Define how the FDE team and customer engineering team will collaborate on use case and architecture definition, code, and execution Establish the depl