Director, Solutions Architecture

Writer Writer · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Engineering, product & design

Director of Solutions Architecture leading a team to drive adoption and deployment of a generative AI platform for enterprise customers, focusing on pre-sales technical engagements, strategic account planning, and influencing the product roadmap. Requires deep technical proficiency in generative AI, LLMs, ML, and cloud-native architectures, with experience managing complex AI/ML implementations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and empower a team of highly skilled solutions architects, fostering their technical growth and career development across complex enterprise AI engagements
  2. Drive the successful adoption and deployment of WRITER's generative AI platform by overseeing key pre-sales technical engagements, including use case discovery, proof-of-concept execution, and value realization for strategic customers
  3. Partner closely with sales leadership and go-to-market teams to develop strategic account plans, define compelling technical value propositions, and accelerate pipeline growth for WRITER's solutions
  4. Act as an executive technical sponsor for WRITER’s most strategic accounts, building strong relationships with C-level stakeholders and becoming their trusted advisor in AI strategy and implementation
  5. Influence WRITER's product roadmap by gathering critical market insights and customer feedback, ensuring our platform continuously addresses evolving enterprise AI needs
  6. Architect robust, scalable, and secure AI solutions for diverse enterprise environments, integrating WRITER's platform with complex customer data ecosystems and existing technical stacks
  7. Transform how we facilitate customer evaluations and proofs of concept, implementing best practices and scalable processes that demonstrate clear ROI and accelerate time-to-value for our clients

Skills

Required

  • Solutions Architecture
  • Team Leadership
  • Pre-sales Engineering
  • Generative AI
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Machine Learning
  • Cloud-native Architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Python
  • Enterprise Software
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Technical Sales
  • AI Strategy
  • Data Pipelines
  • Model Deployment
  • Security
  • Compliance

Nice to have

  • Startup Agility
  • Enterprise Best Practices

What the JD emphasized

  • minimum of 8 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role, with at least 4 years in a management capacity leading a pre-sales or solutions architecture team focused on enterprise software, cloud, or AI solutions
  • Proven expertise in leading and scaling a solutions architecture or sales engineering organization within a high-growth, fast-paced technology company
  • Deep technical proficiency in generative AI, large language models (LLMs), machine learning, and cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP), coupled with hands-on experience in Python or similar scripting languages
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex implementations of AI/ML solutions, understanding data pipelines, model deployment, security, and compliance in diverse, large-scale enterprise environments

Other signals

  • leading a team of solutions architects
  • pre-sales technical engagements
  • customer success
  • AI transformation
  • deploying AI agents