As Manager (Player & Coach) of the Solution Architect team, you will lead and mentor a team of Solution Architects who will partner closely with Sales and customers to translate business needs into technical solutions, run technical discovery, and guide repeatable deployments and proofs of value for customers. Applying both hands-on technical ownership and managerial leadership, you will guide your team through the processes of owning discovery calls, demos, technical scoping and driving POCs through to execution as well as designing, deploying, and managing high performance, low latency AI applications on Baseten’s platform.

EXAMPLE INITIATIVES

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Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solution Architects, providing guidance on technical direction, project execution, and professional development.

Set clear goals and ensure timely, high-quality delivery across multiple customer-facing projects involving LLM deployment and inference optimization.

Collaborate with leadership to align team priorities with company and customer goals, balancing short-term delivery, widely varying customer priorities, and long-term technical initiatives.

Player-coach – While much of this role will be leading the team, you will also be expected to be a key driver on strategic product initiatives and customer engagements. The best managers derive credibility from being able to be hands-on when needed.

Team Management - Lead a team of Solution Architects who will:

Manager, Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Baseten

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