Chief Architect

15+ years of industry experience, with substantial depth in B2B SaaS.

Has led architecture and development for large-scale enterprise products — multi-tenant, security- and compliance-sensitive, with demanding enterprise customers.

Deep, demonstrable expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native SaaS architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Proven track record working with and through globally distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.

Experience establishing architecture practices across multi-team engineering orgs (RFCs, ADRs, design reviews).

Has owned and delivered significant technical transformation or modernization inside a matrix organization, with influence rather than direct authority over much of the surface area.

Management experience leading teams of 10–25 people directly, while remaining hands-on and technically current.

Modern AI architecture. Demonstrated depth designing AI-centric systems that actually shipped in product — not prototypes, pilots or strategy decks.

Generative AI. Deeply conversant and hands-on across the modern GenAI stack: foundation models and model selection, RAG and retrieval architecture, embeddings and vector stores, agentic patterns and tool use, orchestration frameworks, fine-tuning and adaptation, evaluation and guardrails, and latency/quality/cost trade-offs.

Cloud architecture. Expert-level cloud architecture and operations, including infrastructure as code, modern CI/CD and deployment pipelines, containers and orchestration, observability, resilience and multi-region design.

Cost management. Real expertise in the cost side of modern engineering — AI inference and token economics, the cost of AI-assisted development, and cloud operational spend — with a track record of moving unit economics in the right direction.

Nice to Have

Experience in B2B SaaS, multi-tenant platforms, or sales enablement / GTM tech.

Background in platform/developer-experience engineering.

Open-source contributions or public technical writing that demonstrates architectural thinking.

Familiarity with security-by-design, SOC 2, and compliance-aware architecture.

Works seamlessly across Product, Technology and GTM without formal authority, building the trust that makes influence possible.

Constructively collaborative but firm — anchored in a fact-based belief system, willing to hold a position on the evidence and equally willing to change it on better evidence.

Senior-level gravitas and presence, with the judgment and polish to present to the executive leadership team and the board.

Able to express complex technical concepts in a genuinely consumable way, calibrated to the audience — board member, customer executive, product manager or engineer.

Comfortable partnering with a deeply technical CEO and going as far down into the technology underpinnings as the conversation requires.

Two strong companies have become one platform opportunity. The decisions this role makes over the next 24 months — on AI architecture, on modernization sequencing, on how we build and what it costs to run — will shape Showpad's product for the next decade. It is an unusually direct line between architectural craft and company outcome.

Showpad is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and are committed to building an inclusive team.