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