Remote AI Solutions Architect & SME Leader

GitLab; Amsterdam; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefit-eligible team

Job summary

GitLab is hiring a Staff Solutions Architect, AI Subject Matter Expert. You will be the deepest technical voice for a product group, guiding customers through architecture decisions, trials, and PoV evaluations in a remote, globally distributed team.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Engineering to translate customer needs into roadmap insights and reusable SME assets. You’ll own your product group’s success within prioritized opportunities, focusing on AI governance, security, and CI/CD

Qualifications

• Experience in technical pre-sales or solution architecture for enterprise opportunities.
• Proven ability to lead PoC/PoV evaluations with clear success criteria and exec sign-off.
• Hands-on expertise in AI-assisted development workflows and deployment considerations.
• Strong ability to distill complex topics into repeatable playbooks and demos.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for the product group on prioritized opportunities from discovery to PoV evaluations.
• Lead technical deep dives, workshops, and executive briefings connecting GitLab capabilities to business outcomes.
• Design and improve PoV templates with clear success criteria and reusable assets.
• Equip account teams with demos, talk tracks, and reference stories for product launches.
• Serve as escalation point for complex product questions and partner with Post-Sales SAs.
• Handoff PoV outcomes to Post-Sales SAs and stay engaged through initial production use.
• Provide field feedback to Product and Engineering and contribute to SME community.

Skills

Technical pre-sales

Solutions architecture

AI workflows

PoC/PoV processes

Executive communication

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

GitLab is hiring a Staff Solutions Architect, AI Subject Matter Expert. You will be the deepest technical voice for a product group, guiding customers through architecture decisions, trials, and PoV evaluations in a remote, globally distributed team.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Engineering to translate customer needs into roadmap insights and reusable SME assets. You’ll own your product group’s success within prioritized opportunities, focusing on AI governance, security, and CI/CD