• Responsible for bringing VF owned brand equipment and packs designs to life by engineering products for efficient manufacturability • Serve as a critical liaison between the sourcing development and sourcing operation teams • Ensure product intent is maintained while meeting commercial and operational requirements • Work hands-on with factory and sourcing development teams to capture commercialization best practice feedback early within the Product development cycle • Create in partnership with the vendor to ensure product readiness to hand-off to VF production teams • Ensure VF’s high standards of quality, functionality and durability are maintained • Represent commercialization in all early PD cycle product review meetings • Ensure viability of development samples to commercialization requirements • Partner with brand and vendor development, engineering, and production teams to ensure accuracy in pattern, fit, materials and assembly technics • Lead / track extreme fit trial schedules conducted by brand approved fit and wear test teams and report each stage to the cross functional stakeholders • Partner with VF’s nominated GMS mold tooling team to ensure timelines for extreme and full size tooling aligns with planning guidance for BR and production time-frames • Partner with VF’s costing team to validate sample and production patterns against yield utilization

About StarburstStarburst is the data platform for analytics, applications, and AI, unifying data across clouds and on-premises to accelerate AI innovation. Organizations—from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises in 60+ countries—rely on Starburst for fast data access, seamless collaboration, and enterprise-grade governance on an open hybrid data lakehouse. Wherever data lives, Starburst unlocks its full potential, powering data and AI from development to deployment. By future-proofing data architecture, Starburst helps businesses fuel innovation with AI. About the RoleStarburst Forward Deployed Engineers are deeply technical leaders who work directly with enterprise customers and partners to define, design, and operationalize large-scale data platforms built on Starburst. In this role, you will be the primary technical authority guiding customers through architecture, performance engineering, data governance, and multi-cloud implementation patterns. You will engage with engineering teams, principal architects, and C-suite stakeholders to shape data platform blueprints, troubleshoot complex workloads, and ensure customers successfully operationalize Starburst at scale. As a technical expert, you will dive into integration patterns across the modern analytics stack. In this highly influential, customer-facing role, you will collaborate with C-suite executives, architects, engineering leaders, and strategic partners to define future-state architectures, drive data platform transformation, and align technical strategy with business outcomes. You will also work closely with Product and Engineering teams to bring field insights back into the organization and help shape Starburst’s long-term roadmap. This role is located in North America. As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Starburst you will: - Act as a senior technical advisor to strategic enterprise customers, helping them design and implement modern data architectures and solutions powered by Starburst. - Build custom solutions, working closely with engineering develop field solutions in customer facing projects. - Engage with executives across IT, data, and business teams, translating Starburst’s value into business impact and aligning platform strategy with organizational goals. - Define and articulate target-state architectures, including data products, lakehouse, distributed query engines, and cloud-native data platforms. - Develop technical strategy in strategic accounts, partnering with account teams to drive long-term vision, remove obstacles, and ensure successful adoption. - Guide customers through architectural reviews, best practices, governance models, performance considerations, and security patterns. - Influence and drive product direction, representing customer needs and industry trends to Engineering and Product Management. - Develop reference architectures, blueprints, and executive-level technical content that communicates best practices and Starburst’s strategic direction.. - Evangelize modern data architecture principles, helping customers and partners understand how distributed data access, analytics acceleration, and AI workloads benefit from Starburst. Some of the things we look for: - Deep expertise in modern data architectures, including data lakes, lakehouses and data warehouses. - Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid/multi-cloud architecture patterns. - Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders across technical and business domains. - Demonstrated success guiding large-scale data platform transformations and working with enterprise customers. - Hands-on proficiency with SQL, data integration, performance tuning, or analytics engineering. - Ability to travel as needed for customer and industry engagements. - Expertise with kubernetes platforms like EKS,AKS, GKE and Openshift. Ability to Travel: This role will require 25% in-person travel for purposes including but not limited to new hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events. Actual travel expectations may vary by role and business needs. Starburst is dedicated to maintaining fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range provided for this role reflects the minimum and maximum targets for candidates across all U.S. locations and could be inclusive of variable compensation, such as commission or bonus. All employees receive equity packages (ISOs) and have access to a comprehensive benefits offering. Actual compensation packages are determined based on relevant skills, experience, education and training, and specific work location. For more information, connect with the recruiting team or Hiring Manager during the process as they can provide more detailed information about the salary range. Pay Range $200,000—$240,000 USD Build your career at StarburstAll-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry – and the future. Our global workforce is supported by a competitive Total Rewards program that reflects our commitment to a rewarding and supportive work environment. This includes a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more. We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically. Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

• Lead end-to-end deployment of Armada platforms including Atlas, Galleon with AEP, and Leviathan AI Factory integrated with Bridge GPU-as-a-Service • Execute deployments across the ND8 region, including multi-country and multi-site environments • Own infrastructure bring-up, platform configuration, and production readiness validation • Make real-time technical decisions across hardware, networking, Kubernetes, storage, and GPU layers • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned ANZ customers post go-live • Own the technical success plan, adoption milestones, and operational maturity roadmap • Build trusted, long-term relationships with customer engineering, IT, platform, and security teams • Lead technical governance discussions, roadmap planning, and platform optimization conversations • Build, maintain, and actively drive Joint Success Plans (JSPs) for each assigned customer • Align deployment milestones, platform adoption, and operational maturity to customer business objectives • Use the Joint Success Plan as the primary framework for prioritization, execution, risk management, and value tracking

• Lead end-to-end deployment of Armada platforms including Atlas, Galleon with AEP, and Leviathan AI Factory integrated with Bridge GPU-as-a-Service • Own on-site and in-country deployments across Saudi Arabia and the broader ME region • Own infrastructure bring-up, platform configuration, and production readiness validation • Make real-time technical decisions across hardware, networking, Kubernetes, storage, and GPU layers • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned customers post go-live • Own the technical success plan, adoption milestones, and operational maturity roadmap • Build trusted, long-term relationships with customer engineering, IT, OT, and security team • Lead technical governance discussions, roadmap planning, and platform optimization conversations • Build, maintain, and actively drive Joint Success Plans (JSPs) for each assigned customer • Reduce time-to-try and time-to-value by unblocking workloads and accelerating early production use cases • Ensure customer environments remain stable, secure, and production-ready