Senior solutions architect (Central)

About the role

As a strategic solutions architect, you'll work directly with our largest and most strategic prospects to identify, validate, and build innovative agentic AI solutions that unlock massive business value. You'll deeply understand complex enterprise needs and architect a future where AI transforms how our customers operate, shaping how leading companies adopt and scale AI.

This is a full-time, hybrid role based out of our Chicago hub, reporting directly to the Director, Solutions Architecture.

What you'll do

• Drive strategic technical discovery with Fortune 500 prospects and customers, translating complex business challenges into clear, impactful technical solutions for AI-powered work
• Architect and design robust, scalable, and secure generative AI solutions for enterprise clients, leveraging WRITER's platform, APIs, and custom applications to solve critical business problems
• Lead the development and execution of compelling proofs of concept (PoCs) and demonstrations, building custom templates and integrating WRITER's capabilities to showcase transformative value and accelerate time-to-value for customers
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite executives, VPs of Engineering, and AI leaders, guiding their generative AI strategy and collaborating to define enterprise-level architecture roadmaps
• Partner closely with WRITER's product and engineering teams, providing critical feedback from customer engagements to influence our product roadmap and ensure our solutions meet evolving market needs
• Champion the adoption of WRITER's platform and APIs, educating prospects and partners on the art of the possible with generative AI and empowering them to build their own innovative solutions

What you need

• 5+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as solutions architect, enterprise architect, or sales engineering, ideally within a high-growth, B2B SaaS company serving Fortune 500 clients
• Deep expertise in generative AI principles, large language models (LLMs), and prompt engineering best practices, with a passion for staying ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving field
• Experience in Python, proficiency with APIs, and end-to-end orchestration, to augment AI workflows and integrate AI capabilities into complex enterprise systems
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, able to simplify complex technical concepts into clear, compelling business language for diverse audiences, from technical teams to executive leadership
• A highly versatile and tenured problem solver, capable of leading multi-stakeholder discovery sessions, uncovering root causes, and architecting innovative solutions to complex business and technical challenges
• A builder's mindset and a proven ability to connect deeply with customer needs, challenge the status quo with innovative AI solutions, and own the technical success and impact of client engagements