Braze
Director, Applied AI Architects
$193K–$345K
New York City · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of professional experience; 3+ years leading senior individual contributors.
About the job
Leads Braze’s Applied AI Architects, building and managing teams that embed with business functions to develop, deploy, and measure AI-powered workflows and agents.
What you'll do
- Hire, develop, and manage senior individual contributors across GTM and G&A tracks; define role expectations and career paths.
- Set the engagement portfolio and operating discipline, and own delivery, adoption, and business-impact measurement.
- Stay hands-on reviewing and building agent systems while partnering with product and executives to improve shared infrastructure and represent the function.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional experience spanning GTM-adjacent technical work and hands-on building.
- 3+ years leading senior individual contributors, with evidence of developing and retaining them.
- Hands-on experience building AI-powered tools, agents, or workflows that transformed real work, with concrete examples.
- Track record of standing up and scaling a team, practice, or function; executive communication and stakeholder management; and defining business-impact measurement.
Nice to have
- Led forward-deployed engineering or applied AI teams at a model lab, AI-native company, or scaled enterprise SaaS business.
- Experience with modern agentic tooling and enterprise GTM stacks, rotation-based operating models, or hiring for hard-to-define roles.
Pay
USD $193,000 and $276,000/year (base salary); USD $241,000 and $345,000/year (On Target Earnings (OTE), including bonus or commission)
Tools
Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, custom agent frameworks, MCP-style integrations, Salesforce, Gong, Slack
AI focus
Builds and leads deployment of AI agents, automations, and LLM-powered workflows for internal business functions, measuring adoption and business outcomes and moving proven patterns into shared infrastructure.
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