# Director, Applied AI Architects

**Company**: Braze
**Location**: New York City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $193,000 - $276,000/year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Braze seeks a Director, Applied AI Architects to lead a team of forward-deployed practitioners who combine domain judgment with hands-on build capability.

The successful candidate will define how a new role category operates, own the portfolio of engagements across the business, and answer for the outcomes.

Responsibilities:

- Build the team of senior, highly autonomous ICs operating in a role category that barely exists in the market

- Own the engagement portfolio and decide where Architects embed, what they prioritize, and when they rotate or scale back

- Answer for the bets and own delivery and measurement of the committed GTM bets

- Run the operating discipline and enforce the engagement lifecycle

- Stay hands-on and review agent designs, specs, and output quality at the system level

- Compound through the platform and partner with the Director of Applied AI Product

- Be the executive interface and negotiate embed agreements with CRO and CBO leadership and functional executives

- Write the playbook and document what works

Requirements:

- 10+ years of professional experience spanning GTM-adjacent technical work and hands-on building

- 3+ years leading senior individual contributors

- Demonstrated, hands-on experience building AI-powered tools, agents, or workflows that transformed real work

- Track record of standing up a new team, practice, or function and scaling it past your own personal capacity

- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management

Benefits:

- Competitive compensation that may include equity

- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans

- Flexible paid time off

- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability

- Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave

- Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend

- A curated in-office employee experience

- Opportunities to give back to your community

- Employee Resource Groups

- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- architecture
- leadership
- technical

### Nice to have
- modern agentic tooling
- enterprise GTM stacks
- engagement- or rotation-based operating models

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