What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Solutions Architect - Infrastructure position at Decagon?
About Decagon
Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experience. Our AI agents provide intelligent, human-like responses across chat, email, and voice, resolving millions of customer inquiries across every language and at any time.
Since coming out of stealth, Decagon has experienced rapid growth. We partner with industry leaders like Hertz, Eventbrite, Duolingo, Oura, Bilt, Curology, and Samsara to redefine customer experience at scale. We've raised over $200M from Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, a16z, BOND Capital, A*, Elad Gil, and notable angels such as the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, Lattice, and Klaviyo.
We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values—customers are everything, relentless momentum, winner’s mindset, and stronger together—shape how we work and grow as a team.
About The Role
Decagon is seeking a Founding Solutions Architect - Infrastructure, a foundational technical hire who will shape the future of how enterprises deploy and scale our AI-powered platform. This role sits at the intersection of pre-sales engineering, deployment architecture, and enterprise infrastructure strategy. You will act as a trusted advisor to enterprise prospects and customers, guiding them through complex, ambiguous deployment conversations—from containerization strategies to multi-cloud architectures—ensuring Decagon integrates seamlessly into their existing infrastructure while meeting security, compliance, and scalability requirements.
As a founding hire in this function, you will define best practices for deployment solutioning, partner cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Engineering, and set the standard for how Decagon engages with enterprises navigating sophisticated infrastructure requirements. You will establish technical credibility with stakeholders across the C-suite, security teams, platform engineering, and DevOps organizations.
What You'll Do
Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experience. Our AI agents provide intelligent, human-like responses across chat, email, and voice, resolving millions of customer inquiries across every language and at any time.
Since coming out of stealth, Decagon has experienced rapid growth. We partner with industry leaders like Hertz, Eventbrite, Duolingo, Oura, Bilt, Curology, and Samsara to redefine customer experience at scale. We've raised over $200M from Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, a16z, BOND Capital, A*, Elad Gil, and notable angels such as the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, Lattice, and Klaviyo.
We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values—customers are everything, relentless momentum, winner’s mindset, and stronger together—shape how we work and grow as a team.
About The Role
Decagon is seeking a Founding Solutions Architect - Infrastructure, a foundational technical hire who will shape the future of how enterprises deploy and scale our AI-powered platform. This role sits at the intersection of pre-sales engineering, deployment architecture, and enterprise infrastructure strategy. You will act as a trusted advisor to enterprise prospects and customers, guiding them through complex, ambiguous deployment conversations—from containerization strategies to multi-cloud architectures—ensuring Decagon integrates seamlessly into their existing infrastructure while meeting security, compliance, and scalability requirements.
As a founding hire in this function, you will define best practices for deployment solutioning, partner cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Engineering, and set the standard for how Decagon engages with enterprises navigating sophisticated infrastructure requirements. You will establish technical credibility with stakeholders across the C-suite, security teams, platform engineering, and DevOps organizations.
What You'll Do
- Partner with Account Executives to discover, qualify, and design deployment solutions that address customer infrastructure constraints and deliver measurable ROI.
- Navigate ambiguous conversations with customers about their infrastructure landscape, translating diverse environments (GCP, AWS, hybrid, on-prem) into clear integration and deployment strategies for Decagon's platform.
- Design containerization approaches, cloud function implementations, and infrastructure architectures tailored to each customer's unique requirements and security posture.
- Establish scalable pre-sales processes, deployment playbooks, and reusable reference architectures to support growth.
- 8–10 years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineer, or Technical Account Manager with a focus on infrastructure and deployment.
- Deep fluency in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), GCP Cloud Functions/Cloud Run, and AWS architecture patterns—with the ability to adapt recommendations to customer constraints.
- Demonstrated success navigating ambiguous technical conversations with enterprise customers, asking the right discovery questions, and collaborating through uncertainty.
- Strong ability to engage with diverse stakeholders—from platform engineers to CISOs to business leaders—and translate infrastructure requirements into actionable deployment strategies.
- 2 years of experience selling or architecting AI/ML infrastructure solutions in enterprise environments.
- Experience working in a high-growth startup environment where you've built pre-sales infrastructure practices from the ground up.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi), service mesh technologies, or multi-cloud deployment patterns.
- An engineering background (DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or software engineering) that enables you to dive deep into technical architecture and troubleshooting conversations.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible "take what you need" vacation policy.
- Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks provided in-office.
Salary : $250,000 - $300,000