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About the Role
Code and Theory is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed Product Manager to provide functional leadership for a pod of Forward Deployed Product Managers. This role involves setting operating standards for requirements, prototypes, and workflow decisions, and acting as an escalation point between teams. The ideal candidate has prior experience in a similar individual-contributor role and can lead by example.
Responsibilities
- Set and enforce a consistent bar for requirements quality, prototyping rigor, and documentation across the pod
- Unblock FDPMs on ambiguous or contested requirements by making the call or escalating to the right owner
- Own the relationship with Technical Account Managers and implementation leads at the program level
- Review and sanity-check the workflows, prototypes, and briefs the pod produces
- Identify recurring patterns across deployments to generalize and drive into the core product roadmap
- Build and maintain the shared playbook: templates, workflow patterns, prompting approaches, and documentation standards
- Coordinate staffing and workload across concurrent deployments
- Flag capacity gaps or performance concerns to the reporting manager
- Surface pod-wide progress and blockers to product and delivery leadership
- Stay hands-on to step into a deployment directly when needed
Requirements
- Prior experience as a forward-deployed PM, solutions consultant, or implementation lead
- Experience in the individual-contributor version of this work, understanding its challenges under pressure
- Track record leading a workstream, initiative, or informal team in a fast-moving, client-facing environment
- Direct people-management experience is not required
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to spot patterns across multiple client contexts
- Judgment to make decisions for the pod with incomplete information
- Hands-on comfort with prototyping, prompting, and workflow design
- Excellent communication skills across technical, non-technical, client-facing, and leadership audiences
- High ownership and a bias to action
- Discipline to allow FDPMs to own their work
- Comfortable working directly for clients and influencing without direct reporting lines
- Builder/operator orientation rather than a pure roadmap PM background
- Likely from a startup, SaaS, or technical services environment
Skills
- Systems thinking
- Prototyping
- Prompting
- Workflow design
- Communication
- Ownership
- Bias to action
- Influencing
Experience Level
- Lead
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000 – $190,000
About the Company
- The Machine is the agentic operating system for marketing, built by Code and Theory.
- It plugs into the tools marketing teams use and turns disconnected workflows into a single intelligent system, connecting brand strategy, creative production, and media performance.
- The Machine helps power agencies across Stagwell's network and world-leading brands.
- Born in 2001, Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency that sits at the center of creativity and technology.
- We pride ourselves on not only solving consumer and business problems, but also helping to establish new capabilities for our clients.
- With a global client roster of Fortune 100s and start-ups alike, we crave the hardest problems to solve.
- We have teams distributed across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
- The Code and Theory network of agencies is growing and includes Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Create Group, Current, and TrueLogic.
- We work across every major category: from tech to CPG, financial services to travel & hospitality, government and education to media and publishing.
- We value the collaboration with our client partners, including but not limited to Adidas, Amazon, Con Edison, Diageo, EY, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lenovo, Marriott, Mars, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and TikTok.
- The Code and Theory network is comprised of nearly 2,000 people with 50% engineers and 50% creative talent.
- We’re always on the lookout for smart, driven, and forward-thinking people to join our team.