Gradial is building the AI-native system of work for enterprise marketing. Our agents turn ideas into live campaigns by executing across the tools, teams, and workflows enterprises already use—from content authoring and campaign assembly to quality assurance and brand compliance. We give marketers and creatives more time to shape brands, understand customers, and create work that moves people.

We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in applied AI: building agent harnesses, sandboxed execution environments, and orchestration that enable agents to plan, act, and verify their work reliably at enterprise scale. We’re growing rapidly, winning Fortune 500 and enterprise customers including AWS, T-Mobile, and Prudential. Our $65 million Series C led by Insight Partners is accelerating that momentum.

Join us to help define how people and AI agents work together. We move with urgency, reason from first principles, and take ownership from idea to customer impact. You’ll shape the product, own consequential problems, and build systems that some of the world’s leading brands depend on every day.

The Role

We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead implementations of our AI platform directly with customers. This role is ideal for a technically fluent builder who thrives at the intersection of engineering and problem solving; someone who wants to be hands-on with code while shaping how some of the world’s most recognizable brands modernize their content operations.

As an FDE, you’ll own full-stack development for enterprise deployments, working side-by-side with customers to map complex workflows into scalable generative systems. You’ll move between discovery, prototyping, implementation, and post-launch optimization - translating real-world pain points into elegant technical solutions.

What You'll Own

Lead technical discovery and implementation for new enterprise customers, translating nuanced business processes into robust AI-native solutions.
Build, deploy and optimize features that integrate customer systems with Gradial’s LLM driven platform.
Develop reusable tools, adapters and configuration layers to support scalable enterprise onboarding.
Collaborate with customer stakeholders (mainly within marketing, operations and engineering) to define requirements, surface edge cases and iterate in real time.
Work closely with Gradial’s product and engineer teams to incorporate learnings from the field into our core roadmap.
Contribute to internal technical documentation and implementation playbooks that accelerate future deployments.
Own performance, reliability and maintainability for the solutions you ship, from backend architecture to customer UX.

What We're Looking For

1+ years of software engineering or technical implementation experience, ideally in customer-facing contexts.
Proficiency in programming languages such as TypeScript or similar, with a strong understanding of APIs and systems integration.
Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar enterprise software architectures (CMS, DAM, workflow tools) and build integration paths.
Excellent communication skills. Confident translating for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
High ownership mindset with comfort operating independently, navigating ambiguity.
Willingness to travel occasionally (<10%) for customer discovery, deployment and relationship building.

Nice to Have

Experience working with enterprise customers; particularly in content, marketing or digital operations.
Familiarity with LLMs, generative AI pipelines and agent-style automation frameworks.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $130,000 – $210,000 annually. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for performance-based bonuses and equity awards. Gradial offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental & vision insurance, 401K retirement plan, paid time off, paid sick leave and other employee wellness programs.

What we offer

Performance-based annual bonus
Meaningful equity awards
Medical, dental & vision (fully covered for employees with 75% for dependents)
Fertility & family-planning support
401k plan
Unlimited PTO
A beautiful Seattle office with a gym, sauna, and bike parking
Free lunch three days a week in our HQ
A front-row seat to building category-defining AI infrastructure

You'll thrive here if you

Learn quickly, actively seek out new challenges, and regularly reconsider “how it’s always been done.”
Want to have real impact with zero bureaucracy.
Have an innate drive for being 1% better than the day before, building towards greatness.
Embrace AI as a core tool for problem-solving, innovation, and scale.
Show customer-obsession (internal or external), high ownership/accountability, and bias for action.
Communicate clearly, directly, with curiosity, and assuming good intentions.
Thrive in fast-paced, hyper-growth environments where building better > maintaining status quo.

AI Literacy & Interviewing Tools

As an AI-first company, we prioritize AI literacy as a core competency in our hiring decisions. We’re excited by candidates who thoughtfully apply AI tools in their work, but during interviews we’re focused on you. This is your opportunity to show how you think, communicate, and solve problems. Over-reliance on AI-generated responses during the interview process (especially when it obscures your own voice) will result in disqualification. We want to understand your unique perspective and how you approach challenges, both with and without AI.

Gradial is dedicated to creating an environment where diverse perspectives are valued and all team members can grow. We offer competitive compensation, equity, flexible work hours, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative culture focused on learning and impact.

About the company

Gradial builds an enterprise marketing platform in the Seattle area that uses AI agents to handle marketing operations—authoring, QA, brand compliance, accessibility checks, asset tagging, and campaign assembly—inside the systems brands already use. The AI agents work inside a brand’s own tools to complete tasks from drafting content to QA, speeding from brief to live content. Gradial differentiates itself by integrating with existing enterprise systems and serving high-demand needs like AI search and agent-scale publishing, with a roster of major customers and rapid ARR growth after a Series C. The goal is to become the default workflow platform for marketing teams, enabling fast, scalable content production and reducing reliance on agency-based ticket work.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$118.4M

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

Gradial said ARR grew more than 10x year over year on June 17, 2026.
Perficient's July 8, 2026 partnership opens Fortune 500 distribution and services leverage.
Gradial's same-day turnaround and 20x efficiency claims attract regulated enterprise marketers.

What critics are saying

Adobe, Contentful, Salesforce, and CMS vendors can copy agentic workflows into suites by 2027.
Gradial's Perficient channel concentrates enterprise demand in one services partner.
A security or compliance failure in regulated customers like Kaiser or Vanguard would kill trust.

What makes Gradial unique

Gradial embeds agents inside existing DAM, CMS, and analytics stacks, not replacement suites.
June 17, 2026 Series C highlighted AWS, T-Mobile, Prudential, Vanguard, Kaiser, US Bank.
Perficient made Gradial its first enterprise customer and built a Center of Excellence.

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Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Paid Sick Leave
Flexible Work Hours
Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-4%

1 year growth

-3%

2 year growth

-5%

Associated Press

Jul 8th, 2026

Perficient and Gradial partner to bring agentic marketing to Fortune 500 brands

Perficient, a global AI and technology consulting firm, has partnered with Gradial, an agentic orchestration platform, to deliver agentic marketing execution to Fortune 500 brands. The partnership enables AI agents to handle marketing execution across channels whilst humans direct strategy and creative work. Gradial's platform orchestrates AI agents that author, activate, and optimise content across existing enterprise systems including DAM, CMS, and analytics platforms. The platform compresses work from days into hours. The firms are co-developing industry-specific solutions including Zero-Ops Content Pipeline and Regulated Content Automation. Perficient has established a Gradial Center of Excellence and implemented the platform on its own website. Gradial's clients include T-Mobile, AWS, and Prudential.

Gradial

Jun 18th, 2026

Gradial Raises $65M to Build the First System of Work for Enterprise Marketing | Gradial

Gradial has raised a $65M Series C led by Insight Partners to build the first system of work for enterprise marketing, helping teams move at AI speed.

Axios

Jun 18th, 2026

Gradial raises $65M to deploy AI agents for enterprise marketing automation

Gradial, a Seattle-based startup deploying AI agents to automate enterprise marketing workflows, has raised $65 million in Series C funding, CEO Doug Tallmadge exclusively told Axios. The funding comes as brands rethink their marketing operations in the AI era, with current systems proving slow and burdensome. Gradial uses AI agents to streamline marketing processes for enterprise clients.

Greenville Business Magazine

Dec 3rd, 2025

Gradial raises $35M to automate enterprise marketing operations with AI agents

Gradial, an enterprise software company specialising in AI-powered marketing operations, has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by VMG Partners, with participation from existing investors Madrona and Pruven Capital. The round brings the Seattle-based company's total funding to $55 million. The startup deploys AI agents that automate marketing execution tasks including content authoring, brand redesigns, quality assurance and large-scale campaign operations. Gradial's customers include Fortune 1000 companies such as T-Mobile, which reports an 80% reduction in time to market using the platform. Founded by Doug Tallmadge, Anish Chadalavada, Deip Kumar and Anup Chamrajnagar, Gradial integrates directly into enterprise tools to streamline workflows that typically involve ten or more roles. The funding will accelerate platform development and team expansion across engineering, product and go-to-market functions.

Fintech Gate

Mar 20th, 2025

Gradial raises $13M in Series A funding

Gradial, a US-based AI and enterprise marketing startup, raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Madrona, with participation from Pruven Capital, General Advance, Outsiders Fund, and DLA Piper. The funds will be used to double their team size from 20 employees, accelerate product development, and expand their customer base.