The opportunity
The Applied AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move…
What you'll do
Hire, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Applied AI Architects,: creating an environment of technical excellence, sound judgment, continuous learning, accountability, and strong customer stewardship.
Define and continuously refine the strategy and operating model for Applied: AI Architecture across Japan, aligning company priorities with the evolving needs of strategic customers and the regional go-to-market.
Partner with Sales leadership and Account Directors to prioritize accounts: and opportunities, allocate technical resources effectively, and establish clear technical strategies for the region's most consequential engagements.
Ensure Applied AI Architects serve as the primary technical advisors for: their portfolios, owning technical account plans, technical milestones, adoption priorities, account health, and expansion opportunities.
Lead complex, multi-threaded customer journeys that connect executive vision: and business outcomes with use-case qualification, solution evaluation, enterprise governance, and a credible path to production.
Coach the team on Applied AI architectures spanning models, applications,: data, integration, identity, security, privacy, governance, evaluation, reliability, and deployment.
What they're looking for
- Build trusted relationships with C-suite and board-level stakeholders, as: well as senior AI, technology, data, security, and engineering leaders, serving as an executive technical sponsor when needed.
- Mobilize Deployment Engineering, implementation, enablement, Product,: Engineering, Research, Security, Legal, Privacy, partners, and other specialists to remove blockers and deliver a cohesive customer experience.
- Establish a rigorous view of portfolio health, including technical wins,: qualified use cases, production readiness, adoption, usage, risks, measurable customer impact, and the technical contribution to growth.
- Translate patterns from the field into actionable feedback for Product,: Engineering, Research, and go-to-market teams, while developing reusable architecture guidance and customer practices.
