Director, AI Infrastructure & Strategic Partnerships

Required

• Significant experience in senior technical leadership roles, such as Field CTO, Chief Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or an equivalent customer-facing position.
• Demonstrated experience taking AI workloads from experimentation into production, with strong understanding of inference and agentic AI infrastructure requirements.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, including accelerated computing, storage and data platforms, networking, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
• Ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and explain the tradeoffs among latency, throughput, resilience, scalability, and cost.
• Experience building technical partnerships with AI platforms, ISVs, infrastructure vendors, or cloud providers.
• Understanding of sovereign cloud requirements, including data residency, deployment control, security, and operational autonomy.
• Proven ability to influence product and engineering priorities through customer and partner insight.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to connect technical architecture to business outcomes.
• Willingness to travel internationally for strategic partner and customer engagements.
• Measures of Success
• Strategic partnerships progress from technical alignment to validated solutions and joint customer opportunities.
• Field engagement contributes to qualified pipeline, technical wins, and production deployments.