Head of Solutions Architecture (AI)

Location: In-person in San Francisco, California, United States; willingness to travel for customer meetings, events, and team time is required.

Compensation: OTE $300K–$415K, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is building a search engine for the AI era, with a Search API used by agents, Fortune 500 companies, and AI labs.

What you will do

• Build and lead the Solutions Architecture team in San Francisco, hiring the first Solutions Architects and maintaining a high technical bar.
• Own the technical win with Sales leadership across discovery, demos, workshops, proofs of concept, and competitive evaluations.
• Define and track team metrics including revenue closed, pipeline generated, technical win rate, POC conversion, and time to technical win.
• Participate hands-on in strategic deals by building demos, reviewing architectures, and supporting competitive evaluations.
• Partner with Marketing on webinars, technical content, demo applications, events, and meetups that generate pipeline.
• Build the SA playbook and feed field-driven product gaps back to Product based on pipeline and revenue impact.

Requirements

• Several years of hands-on programming experience sufficient to build demos, implement POCs, and run rigorous competitive evaluations.
• 5+ years of presales or technical sales experience, including leadership of Solutions Architecture, Solutions Engineering, or Sales Engineering teams.
• Experience hiring strong technical people.
• Clear communication with CTOs, engineers, and executives, plus a strong working partnership with Sales leadership.
• Comfort with ambiguity and building processes from scratch in a fast-growing company.
• Willingness to travel as needed for customer meetings, events, and team time.

Nice to have

• Experience building an SA or SE team from the ground up at an API, developer-tools, AI, or modern database company.
• Experience building with LLMs, RAG, or agents, with credible knowledge of retrieval and search quality.
• Experience owning or co-owning a revenue number as a technical leader.
• Strong interest in organizing the world's knowledge and making it accessible to machines.

Culture & Benefits

• High-agency, low-ego working environment focused on building an AI-era search engine.
• Premium medical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits.
• Fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend.
• International candidates are eligible for visa sponsorship, including STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, and E3.