Senior Architect

Zizy Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health support

Generous time off

Paid parental leave

Learning stipend

Job summary

Zizy Inc. is seeking a technically savvy Solutions Architect to partner with high-impact customers, guiding them through application development on the Zizy API platform.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in technical consulting and a proven track record in managing complex projects. Your role will involve embedding with strategic clients, providing guidance to maximize the business value of their applications, and managing relationships with customer leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical consulting experience.
• Experience in building or delivering prototypes on APIs.
• Led complex technical projects with numerous stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic platform customers as a technical partner.
• Provide guidance to maximize business impact from applications.
• Prototype solutions to meet customer needs.
• Manage relationships with customer leadership for successful deployments.
• Contribute to open-source developer resources.
• Deliver high-signal feedback to Product and Research teams.

Skills

Technical consulting

Prototyping

Project management

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Empathy

Adaptability

Context switching

Job description

The Success team is responsible for ensuring developers and enterprises are successful in building scalable production applications with the Zizy API platform. We guide and support customers to achieve maximum benefits, value, and adoption from deploying our highly-capable models. Zizy's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises.

We are looking for a technically savvy and business-minded solutions architect to deeply partner with our most strategic and high-impact platform customers, guiding them through application ideation, development, delivery, and scale to accelerate and maximize the value of what they build with our platform. You will have the opportunity to work on the most novel and creative use cases being built on our API, serving as a critical partner for collecting and delivering high fidelity feedback to Product and Research teams. You will collaborate closely with the Account Engineering, Partnerships Research, and Product teams, and will report to the Head of Success.

In this role, you will:

• Deeply embed with our most strategic platform customers, serving as their technical thought partner in ideating and building novel applications on our API.
• Proactively provide guidance to our customers on how to maximize business impact from their applications, accelerating their time to value.
• Experiment and prototype solutions with and for your customers.
• Forge and manage relationships with our customers’ leadership and stakeholders to ensure their application’s successful deployment and scale.
• Contribute to our open-source developer and enterprise resources.
• Scale the Solutions Architect function through sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing notebooks to our internal and external repositories.
• Validate, synthesize, and deliver high-signal feedback to the Product and Research teams.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have 5+ years of technical consulting (or equivalent) experience.
• Built and/or delivered prototypes on top of our API platform.
• Led complex technical projects and programs with many stakeholders.
• Can proactively identify opportunities for maximizing our customers’ business value through leveraging the Zizy API.
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done to ensure both your team and our customers succeed.
• Have a humble attitude and an eagerness to help others with empathy.
• Operate with high horsepower, are adept at frequent context switching and working on multiple projects at once with expansive ownership, and ruthlessly prioritize.
• Thrive in dynamic environments and can navigate ambiguity with ease.

Zizy is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

At Kya, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Benefits and Perks

• Mental health and wellness support
• Generous time off policy
• Paid parental leave and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses. Pursuant to the NewYork Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via our careers email.