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Senior Director, Solutions Architecture, APAC

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RemoteFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role responsible for owning and growing Solutions Architecture across Asia Pacific, including Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. Leads regional team, drives technical wins, sets strategy, and partners with Sales, Product, and Engineering to deploy sovereign, regulated, production-ready AI solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Build and Lead the Team: Hire, coach and develop the Asia Pacific Solutions Architecture organization, and establish in-region depth rather than relying on support flown in from other regions.
  • Open Doors Across the Region: Bring industry knowledge, technical credibility and an existing network to get Cohere into strategic accounts quickly.
  • Own the Technical Win: Be personally accountable for the technical outcome of the region’s most strategic pursuits, and be in the room for the ones that decide the year.
  • Set Direction for the Function: Define the vision, strategy, coverage model and operating rhythm for Asia Pacific Solutions Architecture across three markets that buy differently and regulate differently.
  • Architect Sovereign and Regulated Deployments: Lead customers into secure, scalable, production-ready agentic AI deployments across cloud, hybrid, VPC, on-premises and air-gapped environments.
  • Build Repeatable Solution Practices: Establish scalable solution-selling methodologies, industry playbooks, executive narratives, business cases and technical delivery frameworks.
  • Partner with Regional Sales Leadership: Own territory, coverage and pipeline jointly with the Asia Pacific sales leader, and be accountable for the number together.
  • Shape Product Direction: Translate Asia Pacific customer needs into platform improvements and roadmap priorities.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in Solutions Architecture, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting or Enterprise Architecture
  • 7+ years leading customer-facing technical teams
  • Regional depth and network across more than one Asia Pacific market
  • Hands-on technical credibility with production AI experience
  • Commercial acumen and ability to influence enterprise deals
  • Executive presence with C-suite and senior stakeholders
  • Strong understanding of modern AI architectures, LLMs, agentic systems, security and governance
  • Enterprise experience designing and delivering complex regulated environments

Skills

Required:Leadership and People ManagementExecutive Stakeholder ManagementSolution Architecture for AI/Enterprise AIEnterprise Sales Collaboration

Benefits

  • Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent
  • Full health and dental benefits including mental health budget
  • RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
  • Annual enrichment benefits (arts & culture, fitness, workspace improvement) and learning stipend
  • 6 weeks paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Travel budget to other offices and annual company offsite
  • Remote-friendly with coworking and home office stipend $500
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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