Strategic Architect (Santa Clara)
19 hours ago
Santa Clara
About Refold: Refold is building the next-generation AI platform that replaces enterprise integration consultants. We’re pioneering autonomous AI agents that understand complex enterprise systems, generate production-ready code, and operate at a scale no consulting firm can match. Today, we’re starting with integrations, a $50B market. Tomorrow, we’re building toward a world where AI agents handle any complex cognitive work. Traction: Serving 20+ enterprise customers with Fortune 500 deployments, processing 10M+ API calls/day. Refold was founded by Jugal Anchalia and Abhishek Kumar, who previously built and sold a startup to Netmeds and were recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30. The team brings experience from Nomura, JioMart, InstaMojo, IIT Kharagpur, and IIT Roorkee. We’re backed by marquee investors including Eniac Ventures, Tidal Ventures, Karman Ventures, Ahead VC, and Better Capital. We’re assembling a founding team of people who learn fast, raise the bar, and shape the company from day one. The Role: The Strategic Architect is Refold’s most senior customer-facing technical leader, equal parts Field CTO, principal solutions architect, and product strategist. You will own our largest, most strategic enterprise accounts end-to-end: from executive-level technical advisory through architecture design, deployment, expansion, and ongoing partnership. This is a founding role. You’ll define what “Strategic Architect” means at Refold, set the technical bar for how we engage with Fortune 500 customers, and serve as one of the primary signals shaping our product roadmap. You will be the trusted technical voice that CTOs, CPOs, and VPs of Engineering pick up the phone for. • Team: Founding-level role working directly with the CEO, CTO, and Head of Product., • Building: Mission-critical agentic AI integrations at enterprise scale., • Customers: CTOs, CPOs, and VPs of Engineering at Fortune 500 enterprises and $50M+ ARR software companies. Key Responsibilities: • Own Strategic Accounts End-to-End: Take full accountability for our largest enterprise relationships, from initial technical engagement and architecture design through deployment, adoption, expansion, and renewal. Serve as the executive technical sponsor that customers escalate to., • Operate as a Field CTO: Be the technical face of Refold to enterprise CTOs, CPOs, and VPs of Engineering. Build deep, durable trust relationships through executive briefings, technical deep dives, and quarterly architecture reviews., • Architect Enterprise-Scale Solutions: Design complex, mission-critical agentic AI integrations spanning Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Workday, ServiceNow, and modern data ecosystems. Solve the hardest problems for which no playbook exists yet., • Drive Measurable Customer Outcomes: Own the business outcomes that matter, time-to-value, throughput, reliability, integration coverage, and account expansion. Translate technical wins into customer ROI narratives., • Shape Product Strategy & Roadmap: Be the strongest, most credible customer voice in product discussions. Translate field signals into reference architectures, identified product gaps, and strategic bets. Partner with Product and Engineering to ship what enterprise customers actually need., • Build Repeatable Playbooks: Codify learnings from complex enterprise deployments into reference architectures, integration patterns, and engagement frameworks that scale across the broader solutions team. Required Skills & Experience: • 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, field engineering, technical consulting, or platform engineering, including substantial time at enterprise SaaS or integration companies., • Demonstrated track record owning Fortune 500 and large enterprise customer relationships end-to-end, with measurable outcomes (time-to-value, expansion, retention)., • Technical expertise in distributed systems, APIs, enterprise integration architecture, data pipelines, and modern cloud infrastructure., • Executive presence and communication: comfortable as the most senior technical voice in the room with CTOs, CPOs, and VPs of Engineering at Fortune 500 companies., • Strong product instincts, proven ability to translate customer signals into durable product direction, • Startup-grade agency, high ownership, low ego, comfortable operating without a playbook and building one as you go. Nice to Have: • Prior Field CTO, Principal Solutions Architect, or Founding Solutions Engineer role at a high-growth enterprise startup., • Direct experience integrating with enterprise systems such as Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Workday, NetSuite, or ServiceNow., • Familiarity with iPaaS or workflow automation platforms such as Workato, Boomi, MuleSoft, Informatica, or Merge., • Hands-on experience building with LLMs and agentic frameworks (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models, agent orchestration)., • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern data infrastructure., • Background scaling enterprise customer engagements at an early-to-growth-stage startup, you’ve seen the journey from <10 customers to many. Why Join Refold AI? • Founding-level role, you’ll define what “Strategic Architect” means at Refold and set the bar for how we work with our largest customers., • Direct partnership with the founders and a clear path to senior engineering or customer leadership as we scale., • Frontier of agentic AI: Fortune 500 deployments that no one else is doing yet., • A $50B market, enterprise integration being reshaped in real time by agentic AI., • Backed by marquee investors ($6.5M raised from Eniac Ventures, Tidal Ventures, Karman Ventures, Ahead VC, and Better Capital)., • Meaningful founding equity alongside competitive base compensation., • A small, exceptional team that ships fast, sets a high bar, and rewards bold ideas. Equal Employment Opportunity We’re a small, fast-growing team, and we’re intentional about building an inclusive culture from day one. We welcome teammates of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race. If you’re excited by our mission, you belong here.