# Head of Deployments

> Raydar · Boston, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15

**Salary:** USD 150,000–200,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

About the company

Our client is an industrial technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead and expand a field engineering group that installs and commissions technology in customer production facilities. Set weekly priorities, rescue struggling rollouts, support pre-sale conversations and shape how deployment services are packaged. This is a high-autonomy leadership position with significant travel to customer sites.

What you'll do

\- Reset team priorities each week, assigning people to projects and rebalancing workloads when problems surface.

\- Find enterprise rollouts that have stalled in any region and get them moving again, including handling difficult customer calls alongside sales colleagues.

\- Present the deployment approach to mid-market and enterprise prospects before contracts are signed, and drive growth across additional sites.

\- Recruit field engineers in the US and abroad, and coach them with prompt feedback after each customer visit.

\- Conduct metrics, forecast and capacity reviews with company leadership.

\- Bring field learnings into product planning and help establish deployment work as a regular chargeable service.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- 5+ years of relevant experience.

\- Proven record installing technology on customer production floors and running complex rollouts spanning many sites or several countries.

\- Experience building and managing a field engineering, professional services or implementation group.

\- History of owning industrial automation projects from kickoff through go-live, working with controls, supervisory, operator interface, execution and data historian systems.

\- Background in industrial automation, robotics or process manufacturing.

\- A strong customer-first mindset, shown through concrete examples.

\- Excellent people skills for working with customers and colleagues, including mentoring engineers.

\- Willingness and ability to travel 25% to 50% of the time, including internationally.

\- A university background in an engineering field is preferred.

Bonus points

\- Experience making services a separately billed revenue stream.

\- Experience creating partner models with third-party integrators.

\- Experience growing a small early team into a much larger one.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: USD 150,000 to 200,000 per year

\- Equity

\- Health, dental and vision coverage

\- Life and disability insurance

\- Retirement plan with employer match

\- Commuter benefit

\- Health and wellness benefit

\- Professional development opportunities

\- Bonus opportunities

Location and work model

\- Boston, Massachusetts, United States

\- On-site, 5 days per week in office

\- Full-time

\- Travel to customer sites of 25% or more

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/E51FC4B37C/apply)

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