Serve as the ultimate technical lead, establishing prototype standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team.
Partner with sales and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts (MLOps, GenMedia, or agentic systems) to key accounts.
Lead technical hiring for field deployed architect, evaluating AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build forward deployed architects.
Identify skill gaps in emerging tools (MCP, tool-calling), ensuring the team maintains subject matter expertise in an evolving AI stack.
Collaborate with the Product and Architect team to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

Forward Deployed Architect Manager, Generative AI, Google Cloud

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