About Akkio

Akkio is building a generative AI-powered analytics platform to help media agencies leverage all of their data across the campaign lifecycle.  Think AI-powered audience building, media mix modeling, campaign optimization, analysis and reporting. 

Akkio’s platform combines state-of-the-art ML technology with a simple, intuitive interface to ensure agencies can easily infuse data into every decision they make to enhance client outcomes.

To date, we have raised $15MM of funding in July of 2023 during our Series A and are in the process of ramping up hiring to meet rising customer interest.

As a Solution Architect, you will play an essential role on Akkio’s Customer Engineering team, responsible for technical solution development to directly enable revenue growth and successful product implementations for our current and future customers. 

‍What will you own?

Alongside Solution Engineers and Customer Success Managers, this role is primarily responsible for the success of pre-sales Proofs-of-Concept (PoCs) and support of post-sales implementation to Customer production.

Specifically, Solution Architects will spend time in 3 key areas:

• Demo Engineering - Customization & configuration of Akkio’s core product to demonstrate value for enterprise-level prospect needs, data structures, and technical environments.  
• Data Engineering - Building core utilities to automate data ingestion and pipelining into the Akkio platform
• Pre-Sales Technical Implementation - Guide customers through architecting scalable solutions in the Akkio platform to designing and executing on PoCs for key accounts

What traits are required for success in this role?

• 5+ years in data science, technical consulting, solution engineering or similar roles, preferably with a technical product.
• An understanding of the demands of pre-sales roles within a successful AI startup growing from Series A.
• Demonstrated capability & comfort across any tasks typically expected in customer-facing technical pre- or post-sales roles, including enterprise C-Level demonstrations and on-site presentations. 
• Day-to-day comfort with hands-on data engineering in BigQuery, DataBricks, and Snowflake, as well as hands-on with SQL.
• Day-to-day comfort with hands-on python or similar usage to self-serve in completion technical tasks in Demo & Data Engineering.
• Experience with LLMs and RAG architectures
• Comfort with up to 25% travel.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry experience in working with advertising and marketing agencies
• Experience in software development
• Experience designing solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments

AI will transform every industry – but only when it’s accessible to everyone, not just data scientists. Akkio makes it simple to take advantage of the power of AI by combining highly efficient machine learning with a simple and easy-to-use interface. To be the right fit you must believe in our mission and be excited to work in a small, dynamic, startup team environment.

Akkio is a remote-first company with no central office location. This position is fully remote but we prefer the candidate to be based in NYC.

‍Must be authorized to work in the US

To all recruitment agencies: Akkio does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or Akkio employees. Akkio is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.