Manager, Applied AI Architect (India)

Overview

Lead the Applied AI Architects team in shaping technical strategy and guiding complex enterprise customers from discovery through production adoption and measurable business impact.

What you'll do

• Hire, coach, and develop a high-performing Applied AI Architects team.
• Define the team’s regional strategy and operating model.
• Prioritize customer accounts, opportunities, and technical resources with Sales leadership.
• Own technical account plans, milestones, adoption priorities, and portfolio health.
• Lead customer journeys across discovery, evaluation, governance, deployment, and adoption.
• Build executive relationships and serve as a technical sponsor for critical engagements.
• Coordinate specialist teams and translate field insights into product and architecture guidance.

What you'll need

• 10+ years in customer-facing technical roles, including work with large enterprises.
• 4+ years of people-management experience.
• Deep technical knowledge of AI systems, agentic applications, cloud architecture, APIs, security, and enterprise deployment.
• Experience guiding enterprises from technical discovery through production adoption and measurable impact.
• Strong executive communication skills with technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience making resource-allocation decisions across complex portfolios.
• Strong architectural judgment and cross-functional partnership skills.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Work mode: Remote.