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Manager, Cyber - Applied AI Architect

  • San Francisco (On‑site)
  • Full-time
  • $217,000 - $241,000 / year

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Manager, Cyber - Applied AI Architect

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What you'll do

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In this role, you will

  • Hire, coach, and develop a team of Cyber Applied AI Architects, setting clear expectations for technical excellence, customer impact, and career growth.

  • Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and balance pre-sales engagements with post-sales implementation and adoption.

  • Lead technical discovery with security executives, practitioners, architects, and engineering teams.

  • Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering on AI solution design, demonstrations, workshops, technical validation, and proofs of concept.

  • Guide your team in translating customer requirements into clear solution architectures, implementation plans, success criteria, and technical milestones.

  • Oversee solutions from pre-sales architecture and prototyping through production deployment and adoption.

  • Serve as a senior technical partner for strategic customers, coordinating stakeholders and internal Product, Engineering, Security, and GTM teams.

  • Remain hands-on in designing, building, and troubleshooting complex integrations involving OpenAI models and APIs, Codex, agents, security tools, cloud platforms, and enterprise workflows.

  • Set standards for architectural reviews, evaluation frameworks, governance controls, guardrails, monitoring, and human-review processes.

  • Identify technical risks, resolve escalations, and turn customer feedback into actionable product and engineering priorities.

  • Measure team performance, customer adoption, and business impact, ensuring AI-enabled solutions deliver meaningful security outcomes.

  • Build reusable reference architectures, playbooks, demonstrations, and best practices that help the team scale.

Requirements

You might thrive in this role if you

  • Have experience hiring, managing, and developing customer-facing technical teams across solutions architecture, engineering, implementation, or professional services.

  • Bring experience spanning both pre-sales technical engagement and post-sales delivery, with ownership of customer outcomes.

  • Have hands-on cybersecurity expertise across areas such as AppSec, DevSecOps, cloud security, SOC, incident response, vulnerability management, identity, or security architecture.

  • Can coach architects, lead executive-level technical conversations, and remain comfortable designing, building, and troubleshooting solutions.

  • Have experience applying AI models, APIs, or agentic patterns to practical workflows and guiding pilots into production.

  • Can prioritize across customer engagements, manage technical escalations, and communicate architectural decisions and tradeoffs clearly.

  • Enjoy building teams and operating models in ambiguous environments while taking ownership of measurable customer adoption and impact.

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