I have an employee parameter on a script deployment in my SDF. I need it to be a mandatory field. The problem is I want to push to another account but I get

[ACCOUNT_SPECIFIC_VALUE]

for the field and it fails validation and deployment.

You can still deploy and validate with Account specific values if your project is ACP. Goto project settings and select "warning" instead of "error" as default action for account specific values. You should try it with some test project to see if this works the way you want it.

This is a SuiteApp. I'm not sure where that setting would be found.

ok, never mind this is not available for suiteapp.