- Partner with Product Management to define, validate, and shape automation-related capabilities and use cases.
- Design and evangelize customer workflows that realize the value of automation features, including NQE (Network Query Engine), APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification.
- Enhance existing product integrations and build new ones to expand automation and interoperability across the broader network and IT ecosystem.
- Build and maintain lab environments to support demos, technical validation, and automation use-case exploration.
- Develop high-quality technical collateral for internal audiences, including training materials, demo guides, and sales enablement content.
- Collaborate with Marketing to create external-facing assets such as whitepapers, solution briefs, blogs, presentations, and videos.
- Enable Sales and Solutions teams with automation-focused demos, messaging, and technical training.
- Represent Forward at customer meetings, webinars, and industry events, including networking and automation conferences and trade shows.
- Contribute thought leadership on network automation trends and Forward's role in modern NetDevOps and intent-based networking architectures.
- Gather field and market feedback to influence product roadmap and automation positioning.