Director, AI Infrastructure & Strategic Partnerships
SingleStore6 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build executive technical relationships with partner and customer CTOs, architects, engineering leaders, and AI infrastructure teams.
- Establish technical alignment, joint value propositions, integration plans, validation plans, and go-to-market plans with strategic partners.
- Lead architecture discussions, technical workshops, proofs of value, and executive presentations for strategic field pursuits.
- Guide production AI infrastructure designs for inference, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows.
- Translate customer and partner needs into product requirements and roadmap priorities.
- Develop technically credible positioning, solution narratives, reference architectures, presentations, and thought leadership with marketing.
- Create validated architectures and practical deployment patterns for field and partner teams.
- Represent the company at partner events, industry conferences, customer briefings, and technical forums.
Requirements
- Significant experience in senior technical leadership roles such as Field CTO, Chief Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or an equivalent customer-facing position.
- Experience taking AI workloads from experimentation into production, with strong knowledge 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.
- Ability to influence product and engineering priorities through customer and partner insights.
- Strong executive communication skills connecting technical architecture to business outcomes.
- Willingness to travel internationally for strategic partner and customer engagements.
Benefits
- The role includes international travel for strategic partner and customer engagements.
- The position may be based in the United States, with compensation varying by skills, experience, and geographic location.
- Additional rewards may include merit increases and annual bonuses.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About SingleStore
SingleStore builds SingleStoreDB, a distributed SQL database that supports real-time transactions and analytics on the same engine for data-intensive applications. It sells enterprise licenses and a managed cloud service to developers and companies needing low-latency analytics on operational data. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and has a majority investment from Vector Capital.