VP of Platform & AI Architecture

Gravie; United States; On-site; USD 270,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Parental leave (up to 16 weeks)?

401k program

Education reimbursement

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Paw-ternity leave

Job summary

Gravie seeks a Vice President of Platform & Architecture to lead Gravie's shared technology foundations for scalable product development and AI adoption. This hands-on, player-coach leader will own platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, architecture, developer experience, and product support operations.

The role requires setting technical standards, roadmap ownership, and strong collaboration with Product, Security, Privacy, Legal, and Operations to build a high-performing organization.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in platform engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and developer experience.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a hands-on technical executive, moving between strategy, architecture, and detailed engineering problem-solving.
• Experience building shared platforms used by multiple product and engineering teams.
• Track record of improving engineering productivity, platform reliability, and operational effectiveness.
• Experience building technical foundations for AI capabilities in customer-facing products.
• Experience with generative AI architecture, agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, observability, and production operations.
• Experience driving adoption of agentic development practices across an engineering organization.
• Experience applying AI agents in customer service, internal operations, or software development.
• Experience establishing or leading product support operations or cross-functional capabilities.
• Ability to operate effectively in a regulated environment with Security, Privacy, Legal, Risk, and Compliance.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute Gravie’s platform, architecture, and cloud strategy to enable scalable product development and growth.
• Own a prioritized platform roadmap aligned with product strategy and business priorities.
• Lead architecture across shared services and product domains, guiding major cross-team technology decisions.
• Engage deeply in architecture, design reviews, technology evaluation, prototyping, and complex problem-solving when needed.
• Establish technical standards and platform practices for reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Build Gravie’s AI platform including model access, orchestration, retrieval, and lifecycle management.
• Lead adoption of agentic development across Engineering with tooling, training, and workflow improvements.
• Establish shared quality engineering practices, tooling, and automation to improve release confidence and velocity.
• Lead product support operations and cross-functional incident management across teams.
• Partner with Customer Operations to deploy AI agents and automation to improve support and productivity.

Skills

Platform engineering

Architecture

Executive leadership

Hands-on technical leadership

AI platform

Cloud infrastructure

Developer experience

Security and compliance

Tools

AI tools

Prototyping

Observability

Job description

Gravie seeks a Vice President of Platform & Architecture to lead Gravie's shared technology foundations for scalable product development and AI adoption. This hands-on, player-coach leader will own platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, architecture, developer experience, and product support operations.

The role requires setting technical standards, roadmap ownership, and strong collaboration with Product, Security, Privacy, Legal, and Operations to build a high-performing organization.