Director, Account Solutions Architecture

Our Solutions Architecture team at Weights & Biases is a unique hybrid organization combining the deep technical skills of Site Reliability Engineering with the consultative expertise of Solutions Architecture. We focus on ensuring customers can successfully deploy and operate W&B across cloud and on-prem environments while delivering a best-in-class experience that accelerates ML adoption at scale. The team is the last technical mile between a signed contract and a customer training models in production and increasingly the team that decides how fast that happens.

As Director Solutions Architecture youll own the function across REGION the team the operating model and the outcomes. Youll lead managers and senior individual contributors responsible for how W&B is deployed and operated in our largest and most complex accounts across AWS GCP Azure and on-prem and air-gapped environments. Your central problem is leverage: how technical delivery scales without headcount scaling linearly with revenue through coverage design automation reference architectures partner enablement and the management layer you build beneath you. Youll be a peer to Sales Field Engineering Support and Product leadership accountable alongside them for adoption retention and expansion in region and youll carry the clearest signal we have on customer reality into roadmap and platform investment. Externally youll serve as executive technical sponsor for strategic accounts and the face of W&B engineering credibility in REGION.

• Own Solutions Architecture across REGION: strategy operating model headcount plan capacity forecasting and leveling
• Build and develop the management layer hire and coach managers and team leads rather than remaining the single escalation point
• Define how deployments scale: reference architectures automation and IaC standards deployment SLAs and quality bars across sub-regions
• Operate as a senior cross-functional partner to Sales Field Engineering Support and Product leadership jointly accountable for regional adoption retention and expansion
• Stand up leverage programs that reduce direct delivery load customer and partner enablement certification self-service tooling and documentation
• Serve as executive technical sponsor for strategic accounts including escalation ownership at the CTO and VP Engineering level
• Translate aggregated field evidence into prioritized roadmap and platform investment recommendations with Product and Engineering leadership
• Own the regional forecast for technical delivery capacity including partner-led and services-led models where they apply

• 5 years leading a customer-facing technical organization including 2 years managing managers or team leads
• 12 years total experience with a hands-on infrastructure platform SRE or solutions engineering foundation
• Demonstrated track record scaling a post-sales or field technical function through a step change in revenue customer count or geography with the coverage escalation and SLA model to show for it
• Technical depth sufficient to lead an architecture review: Kubernetes Helm containerization networking storage and cloud-managed services
• Production experience with Infrastructure as Code preferably Terraform and with IaC standards adopted across a team
• Proficiency across multiple cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure) plus on-prem or self-managed deployment experience
• Strong Linux/Unix command line experience
• Familiarity with ML workflows MLOps tooling and how ML platforms are operated in production
• Demonstrated experience owning a headcount plan and capacity model including build-versus-partner delivery decisions
• Demonstrated experience influencing product roadmap with structured evidenced field input
• Experience operating a distributed team across multiple countries and time zones

• Deep proficiency in Kubernetes design patterns including Operators and CRDs
• Experience building enablement certification or partner-delivery programs that measurably reduced direct delivery load
• Regulated sovereign or air-gapped deployment experience (government financial services healthcare defense)
• Experience with GPU infrastructure large-scale distributed training and MLOps platform operations
• Experience in a developer-tools or infrastructure company selling to engineering and ML platform teams
• SaaS web service or distributed systems operations experience at scale

We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams even if you arent a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities weve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you wed love to talk.

• You love diving into infrastructure problems and solving them systematically and you build the teams and systems that keep them solved
• Youre curious about how to scale complex ML systems in production environments
• Youre an expert in building and running containerized distributed systems
• You think about leverage first: what automation documentation or hire makes the next hundred deployments easier
• You are comfortable being the technical voice in the room with a customer executive team and the one who tells Product what they do not want to hear

We work hard have fun and move fast! Were in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss. Were not afraid of a little chaos and were constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we prepare for takeoff the growth opportunities within the organization continue to expand. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry who will want to learn from you too. Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $227000 to $303000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge skills experience and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining addition to base salary our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus equity awards and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range weve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications experience interview performance and location.

In addition to a competitive salary we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• Medical dental and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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