Forward Deployed Architect

Notion Labs
Tokyo
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Consultative discovery","Systems thinking","Customer presence","Project management","Communication"]

Partner with customers on forward-deployed engagements from discovery through launch to turn AI ambition into operational reality. Design scalable Notion architectures and AI-native workflows that address governance, integrations, permissioning, and adoption barriers. You’ll build and deploy solutions using Notion AI, custom agents, automations, and Workers, create adoption and enablement plans, and package repeatable patterns into reference architectures and run books.

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Notion Labs
Notion Labs
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Forward Deployed Architect

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Job Summary

Partner with customers on forward-deployed engagements from discovery through launch to turn AI ambition into operational reality. Design scalable Notion architectures and AI-native workflows that address governance, integrations, permissioning, and adoption barriers. You’ll build and deploy solutions using Notion AI, custom agents, automations, and Workers, create adoption and enablement plans, and package repeatable patterns into reference architectures and run books.
Location: Tokyo
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with customers on forward-deployed engagements from discovery through launch, translating business goals and workflow requirements into scalable solution design.
  • •Design scalable Notion architectures for workflows, permission/governance needs, integrations, and AI use cases that are easy to adopt, manage, and scale.
  • •Design and deploy AI-native workflows using Notion AI, custom agents, automations, and Workers, coordinating with Forward Deployed Engineering when deeper technical support is required.
  • •Create adoption plans, enablement materials, and launch approaches to drive sustained usage and measurable business value.
  • •Identify repeatable engagement patterns and convert them into packaged solutions, templates, reference architectures, run books, and enablement assets.

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in tech services/consulting, solutions architecture, implementation, customer engineering, or a similar customer-facing role.
  • •Ability to translate ambiguous customer goals into clear workflows, implementation plans, solution architectures, and measurable success criteria.
  • •Strong consultative discovery skills, including mapping current-state workflows, identifying pain, and defining practical future-state solutions.
  • •Hands-on AI builder mindset with experience using AI tools to design, prototype, automate, or improve real business workflows.
  • •Technical fluency with APIs, integrations, data models, automation, enterprise systems, and the ability to reason through technical tradeoffs and troubleshoot.
Experience:Tech servicesConsultingSolutions architectureCustomer engineering
Skills:Consultative discoverySystems thinkingCustomer presenceProject managementCommunication
Languages:Japanese
Tech Stack:Notion AICustom agentsAutomationsWorkersDeveloper PlatformAPIsIntegrationsData modelsMCPsCoding agents

Company Brief

Notion Labs
Notion builds a customizable all-in-one workspace for notes, docs, databases, and collaboration, now adding AI-powered features and enterprise capabilities to serve teams and organizations worldwide.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2016
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