Senior Solutions Architect

About Akkio

Akkio is the AI workflows platform that automates every workflow across the campaign lifecycle, helping media agencies and data providers activate their data and expertise at scale to deliver better campaigns faster.

Founded in 2019, Akkio combines state-of-the-art ML technology with a simple, intuitive interface to ensure agencies can easily infuse data into every decision across the campaign lifecycle to enhance client outcomes. With recent Series A funding of $15M, we're rapidly expanding our operations to meet growing demand from major media companies.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will play an essential role on Akkio’s Customer Engineering team, responsible for technical solution development to directly enable revenue growth and successful product implementations for our current and future customers. 

What You'll Do

Alongside Solutions Engineers and Customer Success Managers, this role is primarily responsible for the success of pre-sales Proofs-of-Concept (PoCs) and support of post-sales implementation to Customer production.

Specifically, you will spend time in 3 key areas:

• Demo Engineering - Customization & configuration of Akkio’s core product to demonstrate value for enterprise-level prospect needs, data structures, and technical environments.  
• Data Engineering - Building core utilities to automate data ingestion and pipelining into the Akkio platform
• Pre-Sales Technical Implementation - Guide customers through architecting scalable solutions in the Akkio platform to designing and executing on PoCs for key accounts

Who You Are

• 5+ years in data science, technical consulting, solutions engineering or similar roles, preferably with a technical product.
• An understanding of the demands of pre-sales roles within a successful AI startup growing from Series A.
• Demonstrated capability & comfort across any tasks typically expected in customer-facing technical pre- or post-sales roles, including enterprise C-Level demonstrations and on-site presentations. 
• Day-to-day comfort with hands-on data engineering in BigQuery, DataBricks, and Snowflake, as well as hands-on with SQL.
• Day-to-day comfort with hands-on python or similar usage to self-serve in completion technical tasks in Demo & Data Engineering.
• Experience with LLMs and RAG architectures
• Comfort with up to 25% travel.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry experience in working with advertising and marketing agencies
• Experience in software development
• Experience designing solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments

Additional Information

• Location: Remote-first company with no central office location. This position is fully remote but we prefer the candidate to be based in NYC.
• Compensation: Competitive salary range of $170,000-$190,000 depending on experience, plus substantial equity grants
• Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k); generous PTO policy
• Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the US

Akkio is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

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