VP of Presales Solutions Architecture – AI Infrastructure

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Leading Mirantis’s pre-sales architecture organization for k0rdent AI, a Kubernetes-native GPU infrastructure platform. Driving strategic enterprise technical wins, scalable field enablement, and AI infrastructure roadmap influence.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and scale the global pre-sales organization
  • Hire, coach, and retain Solutions Architects and Field Engineers
  • Establish the global pre-sales operating model as headcount and deal volume scale
  • Build reusable discovery frameworks, reference architectures, TCO and benchmark models, POV playbooks, and RFP response libraries
  • Set technical quality standards and run enablement on GPU architecture, high-speed fabrics, and container orchestration
  • Partner with Account Executives as the technical executive on strategic enterprise opportunities
  • Lead technical sales for long-cycle opportunities of 6–18+ months and multi-million-dollar ACV/TCV
  • Execute structured qualification using MEDDPICC or equivalent
  • Architect end-to-end solutions across compute, networking, storage, and orchestration
  • Deliver sizing, capacity plans, and TCO comparisons against public clouds and self-built alternatives
  • Design and drive POVs and POCs, define success criteria, run performance benchmarks, and convert results into commercial momentum
  • Feed product, capacity, and feature requirements to product management, engineering, and supply planning teams
  • Partner with the NVIDIA field ecosystem on cloud partnerships, reference architectures, and joint pursuits
  • Influence roadmap prioritization, packaging, and go-to-market strategy based on field feedback

Requirements:

  • Pre-sales leadership experience at a NeoCloud, hyperscaler AI organization, or accelerated-hardware vendor
  • Proven track record leading technical sales in complex B2B environments
  • Experience with multi-year committed-capacity or reserved-capacity deal structures preferred
  • Track record of hiring, developing, and leading Solutions Architecture or Field Engineering teams
  • Technical depth to lead complex architecture and sales discussions
  • Hands-on experience standing up or operating production ML workloads, including distributed training and multi-node inference
  • Deep understanding of performance bottlenecks across interconnect, memory bandwidth, I/O, and cluster scheduling
  • Fluency across NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell architectures, including H100/H200, GB200 NVL72, and B200
  • Experience with NVIDIA reference systems including DGX, HGX, and MGX
  • Deep understanding of NVLink/NVSwitch, InfiniBand, Spectrum-X Ethernet, RDMA/RoCE, and DPUs
  • Strongly preferred: Kubernetes GPU operators and device plugins, KubeVirt, Metal3/Ironic bare-metal provisioning, and Slurm
  • Familiarity with high-throughput parallel/object storage systems for AI pipelines
  • Familiarity with data center physical constraints including power, cooling, and rack density

Benefits:

  • Remote work
  • Opportunity to work with open source AI infrastructure, Kubernetes, GPU orchestration, and sovereign cloud technologies
  • Collaboration with NVIDIA field ecosystem and participation in joint pursuits