Marion Le BorgneDirector of Software Engineering, AuroraMarion, build Genera.
You've already done the technical, people, and operating versions of this job. You came up through the code at Uber ATG, grew into broad engineering leadership at Aurora, and repeatedly built systems and teams that help technical organizations move with more leverage. That combination of technical depth, team-building range, and operator instinct is exactly what Genera needs in a Head of Engineering: someone to own the US team, shape the architecture, build an exceptional engineering culture, and make AI core to how the company works.
Your experience, matched to the role
Founders who know the problem, backed to win
Genera is building AI agents that let enterprise software teams run every deployment like it is their most critical customer, handling the discovery, configuration, and testing work that keeps scarce deployment engineers from scaling. You have spent years building internal platforms that remove bottlenecks for technical teams. The product is different, but the leverage model should feel familiar.
You'd work directly with Will, who's hiring for this role
Will Patterson was an early PM at Clari who built multiple products from scratch into $10M+ ARR lines, ran M&A across three acquisitions in three years, and owned AI strategy across the portfolio. As a fellow builder-operator, he is the person you would partner with day to day.
And James, who wrote the deployment playbook
James Honsa was employee #12 at Ironclad, its first Forward Deployed Engineer, and built the deployment function that scaled customers from $400K to $150M+ ARR. Will and James were Stanford classmates, with 15 years of trust behind the company.
Backed to win early
A Seed led by First Round Capital, with BoxGroup, WndrCo, and founders and executives from OpenAI, Microsoft, Ironclad, Clari, and Anrok. Serious conviction behind a small, experienced team.
A real Head of Engineering seat
You would own Genera's US engineering team, architecture, hiring, and operating cadence while continuing to build, in close partnership with the Bangalore team and its Eng Lead. It is broad company-building scope from the start, without pretending leadership means leaving the product behind.
A market moving toward Genera
As enterprise AI companies add forward-deployed and implementation talent, deployment remains a constraint on growth. Genera is building for that bottleneck while the category is still taking shape, giving a small team the chance to define how the work gets done.
Operating experience, turned into product
Genera is not a thesis off a slide. James ran deployment inside a fast-scaling enterprise software company. Will shipped products beside design partners and carried six-figure deals at Clari. They kept hitting the same wall, so they set out to build the system they wished they had.
We build hard and protect a full life
James recently shared how we use dinners to build community with the deployment leaders on the front lines of enterprise AI. At Genera, sharing meals is also a core part of how we work. Building something from nothing is hard, and the founders are deliberate about the rituals that keep us human while we do it.
Tuesday team dinners, a.k.a. “Weird Lunch”
Once a week, no matter what, we stop in the evening to eat dinner together. The one rule for whoever is picking, the “dinner dictator,” is that it has to be something that would be weird to eat for lunch. Some nights we talk about the latest model release. More often it is K-pop, Veblen goods, or parenting wisdom.
Celebrating the wins, together
We mark milestones with a shared meal and a toast to every Generator who made the win happen. The most recent was a team dinner in SF, celebrating a new milestone customer.
High standards, with room for life
Many of us are parents, so we know that doing the best work of your career and keeping a full life outside it are not a trade-off. We build flexibility and respect for time away from the keyboard into how the team works.
“Every high-growth company is racing to hire Forward Deployed Engineers, and every one of them hits a capacity wall. That wall is the opportunity.”The bet behind Genera, agents that do the routine work of world-class deployment teams at superhuman scale
Worth a conversation, Marion?
No pressure and no formal process to start, just 30 minutes with Will to compare notes on the technical problems, the Head of Engineering scope, and whether Genera is the right next chapter.
Will Patterson, Co-Founder & CEO, GeneraSee what Genera is building