Manager, Solutions Architecture

Company Description: SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem. At SmartRecruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win. Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment. Job Description: As the Manager of Solutions Architecture at SmartRecruiters, you will lead a team of seasoned technical experts operating at the intersection of Product Strategy and Enterprise Consulting. You will provide the high-level guidance and strategic orchestration necessary to empower your team as they navigate complex architectural challenges and will ensure that their deep field insights inform the product roadmap. What You Will Be Doing Leadership of Seasoned Experts: Manage a team of experienced SAs - helping them to navigate executive-level technical hurdles and complex architectural discussions Orchestrate the team’s involvement in our highest-priority deals and migrations, ensuring the right expertise is applied to critical topics such as governance, security, data privacy and emerging AI architecture Maintain a "player-coach" model by actively participating in core SA activities alongside the team Driving the Intersection of Product Strategy & Enterprise Consulting: Guide the SA team through the evolution of their function as it moves toward a strategic, product-focused model. You will ensure the team remains high-performing and aligned during changes in methodology and strategy Foster a culture where SAs act as a vital bridge to R&D. You will ensure that the deep field intelligence gathered from complex enterprise environments is systematically fed back into the product lifecycle Serve as the primary steward of the operational engagement and activity of SAs in the overall GTM motion. This includes establishing and maintaining clear guidelines on how and when to effectively engage them, and managing the ongoing balance between GTM demands and safeguarding the team's strategic focus Enablement, Standards & Best Practices: Work with the broader business to ensure the team’s output, such as reference architectures and blueprints, enables the broader organization to deliver confidently against the latest product capabilities. Ensure the team transforms insights from complex implementations into scalable technical standards and migration playbooks, allowing Partners and Professional Services to execute with greater precision Strategic Influence: Represent the SA function in cross-functional forums, ensuring that technical challenges and customer needs are clearly understood and addressed by both GTM and Product leadership Qualifications: Leadership of Seasoned Talent: Proven track record of leading and mentoring high-performing teams Deep Domain Expertise: Mastery of the HCM / ATS ecosystem; deep experience with SmartRecruiters and/or SAP SuccessFactors is a significant plus. Technical Governance: Expertise in overseeing complex architectural solutions Strategic Product Influence: The ability to aggregate field intelligence and customer pain points from across your team into actionable insights that feed into the Product roadmap and R&D strategy. Compelling Storytelling: A master communicator who builds executive-level trust and excels at coaching others to translate complex technical specs into clear, high-impact business value Industry Authority: Comfortable serving as a visible technical voice, whether contributing to technical content or representing SmartRecruiters’ vision at industry events Operational Excellence & Growth Mindset: A consistent track record of high performance in fast-paced environments, with the ability to manage change and build repeatable patterns (playbooks/blueprints) that help a senior team scale Additional Information: SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.