Director, AI Infrastructure – Strategic Partnerships

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. Build trusted relationships with partner and customer CTOs, architects, engineering leaders, and AI infrastructure teams .

Posted 11/6/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $120,000 - $175,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in AI infrastructure, including inference and agentic workflows, while effectively guiding technical partnerships and aligning product strategies with customer needs. Exhibits strong executive communication skills to connect technical solutions with business outcomes.

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Senior Technical Leadership ExperienceAI Workloads Production ExperienceEnterprise Infrastructure KnowledgeTechnical Partnership DevelopmentExecutive Communication Skills

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Hard Skills

Inference RequirementsAgentic AI InfrastructurePerformance Bottleneck DiagnosisKubernetesDistributed SystemsAccelerated ComputingStorage PlatformsNetworkingData AccessOrchestration

Soft Skills

Relationship BuildingInfluencing Product PrioritiesTechnical GuidanceCollaborationExecutive Presentation Skills

Tools & Technologies

AI PlatformsCloud ProvidersISVsTechnical WorkshopsReference Architectures

Industry Keywords

Sovereign Cloud RequirementsData ResidencyDeployment ControlOperational AutonomyTechnical Spokesperson

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build trusted relationships with partner and customer CTOs, architects, engineering leaders, and AI infrastructure teams
Work with business development to establish technical alignment, define joint value propositions, and develop integration, validation, and go-to-market plans
Partner with sales and technical teams on high-priority opportunities, leading architecture discussions, technical workshops, proofs of value, and executive presentations
Guide infrastructure designs for inference, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows
Address compute, storage, networking, data access, orchestration, security, reliability, and cost in production AI architectures
Work with product management and engineering to identify capability gaps, prioritize AI-related requirements, and inform roadmap decisions
Collaborate with marketing on technically credible positioning, solution narratives, reference architectures, presentations, and thought leadership
Equip field and partner teams with technical guidance, validated architectures, and practical deployment patterns
Serve as an executive technical spokesperson at partner events, industry conferences, customer briefings, and technical forums

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience in senior technical leadership roles, such as Field CTO, Chief Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or an equivalent customer-facing position
Demonstrated experience taking AI workloads from experimentation into production
Strong understanding of inference and agentic AI infrastructure requirements
Deep knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, including accelerated computing, storage and data platforms, networking, Kubernetes, and distributed systems
Ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and explain tradeoffs among latency, throughput, resilience, scalability, and cost
Experience building technical partnerships with AI platforms, ISVs, infrastructure vendors, or cloud providers
Understanding of sovereign cloud requirements, including data residency, deployment control, security, and operational autonomy
Proven ability to influence product and engineering priorities through customer and partner insight
Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to connect technical architecture to business outcomes
Willingness to travel internationally for strategic partner and customer engagements

Benefits

Comp & perks

Additional rewards, including merit increases and annual bonuses
Total compensation and benefits package
Diversity and inclusion commitment