Partner Innovation Architect, Glean
$200-260k
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AI-based search engine connecting enterprise data
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AI-based search engine connecting enterprise data
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-260k
OTE
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To expand human potential to do extraordinary work.
Role
Who you are
- Interpersonal skills that build trust, credibility, and influence with partners, customers, and internal teams; you’re comfortable acting as the “CTO/CPO/CRO” of Innovation Lab solutions for your partners
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear language for both technical and business audiences
- Demonstrated project planning and execution experience, particularly in leading implementation projects with partners and customers
- Highly self‑motivated, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast‑changing, ambiguous environment; organized and detail‑oriented, driving projects and issues through to completion
- Data‑driven mindset, using metrics and objective measurements to assess solution success and identify improvement opportunities
- Background as a Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, or similar (pre‑ or post‑sales) in a product‑led B2B SaaS company is a strong plus
- Strong software development experience in modern languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go (or similar), with the ability to read, write, and review code for solution building and automation
- Deep experience with APIs and custom data integrations in hybrid or SaaS environments, including solid debugging skills across distributed systems (log analysis, code analysis, end‑to‑end transaction tracing)
- Solid understanding of networking concepts across cloud and on‑premise environments
- Experience in at least two of the following disciplines: Software Engineering, Pre‑Sales Engineering, Post‑Sales Engineering, Professional Services, Support Engineering
- Very strong architectural and hands‑on experience with cloud technologies in at least one of: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure (and willingness to learn the others as needed)
- Security and audit experience: able to understand and represent Glean’s security and audit posture with customer security and compliance stakeholders, and design solutions that are fundamentally secure
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with at least 7+ years of industry experience, or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with at least 5+ years of industry experience
What the job involves
- Glean is seeking a Partner Innovation Architect to help build out our new Partner Innovation Lab function and accelerate how our partners design, build, and scale near production‑ready solutions on top of Glean
- You’ll operate at the intersection of architecture, product, and go‑to‑market—owning end‑to‑end technical solutions, automating deployments, and shaping a reusable catalog of patterns that partners can take to market at scale
- Design, architect, and build near production‑ready solutions on top of Glean that partners can implement with customers (not just demos or POCs)
- Own the end‑to‑end architecture for partner solutions—from data sources and integrations to configuration, security, and user experience
- Automate deployments of those solutions using infrastructure‑as‑code, configuration templates, and repeatable playbooks so partners can roll out solutions consistently across customers
- Build and maintain tools, templates, and documentation (reference architectures, example code, runbooks, best practices) that partners can reuse across engagements
- Serve as the primary technical advisor and solution owner for a set of strategic partners (GSIs, ISVs, and other key partners working with CSPs)
- Lead architecture reviews, whiteboarding sessions, demos, technical workshops, and training with partner and customer technical stakeholders
- Provide training and enablement so partner technical teams can independently deploy, manage, and extend Glean‑based solutions
- Conduct go‑to‑market and addressable market analysis for Innovation Lab solutions—sizing opportunities, understanding target segments, and identifying where Glean + partner offerings have the strongest market fit
- Work with partners to build business cases for new solutions, including value narratives, impact hypotheses, and ROI framing
- Identify opportunities with partners and customers to expand Glean adoption through repeatable solution patterns and packaged offerings
- Align technical plans with GTM priorities, partnering closely with Partnerships, Sales, Product, and Engineering to ensure solutions are both technically sound and commercially impactful
- Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering, providing data‑driven feedback and use cases to drive improvements to the product that unlock new solution patterns for partners
- Work with Sales, Customer Success, Support, and Solutions Engineering to ensure Innovation Lab solutions are understandable, supportable, and aligned with our broader customer motion
- Assist with issue identification, troubleshooting, and remediation for Innovation Lab solutions through resolution, working closely with internal teams as needed
- Think like a Product Manager, Architect, and GTM strategist—while being as hands‑on as an FDE—as you own and build a robust, partner‑led solutions roadmap
Our take
Glean is an intuitive digital assistant which allows employees to search across all their apps and find the information and tools that they need more quickly.
With so many SaaS apps being used by modern day companies, overwhelm and inefficiency inevitably enter the equation. Glean’s search engine is proving popular for how it unifies and centralizes all these distributed tools and data.
It’s been quite a start to life at Glean, having emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1B valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status. Since then, the company has gone on to raise substantial funding and bring its valuation up to $7.2B in 2025. With this impressive growth, its secured some big name customers like Grammarly, databricks, and Rubrik.
That Glean was co-founded by a quartet with senior experience at Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Facebook stands the company in good stead. However, it’s the fact that its search engine is solving a new, but very real problem in the workplace that’s seen its popularity surge so quickly, which it’s likely to continue to do in the future. And its adaptability to include new AI capabilities to its platform, such as generative AI, has Glean well set to see further growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2025
$150m
SERIES F
Sep 2024
$260m
SERIES E
Total funding: $805m
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Arvind Jain
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Engineer at Google and Microsoft. Arvind is also the co-founder of high growth startup Rubrik, which delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises.
TR Vishwanath
(Co-Founder & CTO)Before co-founding Glean, TR was a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook after spending eight years at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer, then Principal Development Lead.
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