--- title: 'Forward Deployed Architect at Notion' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-architect-notion-new-york-rp23fhbqrd67' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Forward Deployed Architect at Notion - **Company:** [Notion](https://feeny.ai/companies/notion) - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-26 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/notion/3e988191-692b-48b7-969f-61c000c1636e ## Job description ## WHO WE ARE Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkpYpWfEK5s. We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. ## ABOUT THE ROLE: As a Forward Deployed Architect on Notion’s Services team, you will help customers turn AI ambition into operational reality and unlock the full potential of our platform. You will partner directly with customers to design, build, and launch AI-native workflows that drive adoption, usage, and measurable business outcomes. This role sits at the center of Notion’s workflow-led GTM motion. You will partner directly with customers to understand their business goals, operating processes, technical environment, governance needs, and adoption barriers, then translate that context into scalable Notion architectures that drive measurable value. You will be hands-on across discovery, solution design, workspace architecture, workflow build, AI implementation, launch planning, adoption and handoff. You will work deeply with customers to define what Notion should own, where it should integrate with existing systems, and how Notion can become a durable operating layer for their teams. The best candidates combine strong consultative discovery, systems thinking, technical fluency, AI-native workflow design, implementation judgment and exceptional customer presence. You should be comfortable reasoning through technical tradeoffs, designing scalable solutions, and partnering closely with Forward Deployed Engineering when deeper engineering support is required. This role can be based in either San Francisco or New York City. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days. ## WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE: - Partner with customers on forward deployed engagements from discovery through launch, translating business goals and workflow requirements into scalable clear solution design and Notion solutions that drive durable adoption. - Design scalable Notion architectures that translate customer workflows, permission and governance needs, integrations and AI use cases into optimal workspaces that are easy to adopt, manage and scale. - Design and deploy AI-native workflows using Notion AI, custom agents, automations, Workers, Developer Platform capabilities and adjacent AI tools, partnering with Forward Deployed Engineering when advanced technical depth is needed for migrations, API constraints, security architecture or frontier implementation. - Help customers navigate change by designing adoption plans, enablement materials and launch approaches that drive sustained usage and measurable business value. - Identify repeatable patterns across customer engagements and convert them into packaged solutions, templates, reference architectures, run books, enablement assets and product feedback. - Serve as a trusted advisor to customers, simplifying complex technical requirements, making practical tradeoff recommendations and helping stakeholders align around a clear implementation path. - Partner cross-functionally with GTM, Product, Engineering, PMM, Services leadership and the partner ecosystem to scale what works beyond individual customer engagements. - Create clear implementation plans, handoff materials and success measures that align customers and internal teams on the path to value. ## SKILLS YOU'LL NEED TO BRING: - 5+ years of experience in tech services/consulting, solutions architecture, implementation, customer engineering, or a similar customer-facing role. - Proven ability to translate ambiguous customer goals into clear workflows, implementation plans, solution architectures, and measurable success criteria. - Strong consultative discovery skills, including the ability to map current-state workflows, identify customer pain, understand operating models, surface technical constraints, and define 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, developer workflows and implementation tradeoffs. You do not need to write production code but you should be able to reason through technical constraints and troubleshoot effectively. - Strong experience delivering implementations that drive adoption, change management and long-term customer value. - Strong project and engagement management skills, including ownership of scope, timeline, deliverables, stakeholder alignment, risks, decisions, dependencies and launch readiness. - Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for business, technical, and executive audiences. - Strong executive presence and customer judgment, with the ability to build trust, frame tradeoffs clearly, and move ambiguous decisions forward. - Bias toward action, high learning velocity, and comfort building in fast-changing AI-native product environments. ## NICE TO HAVES: - Experience designing or deploying Agents, automations or AI-powered workflows with Customers. - Experience with Notion, APIs, MCPs, Workers, coding agents or developer platform workflows. - Experience developing discovery methodologies, reusable delivery assets, internal tooling, packaged services or reference architectures from the ground up. - Experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams to turn field learnings into roadmap signal, reusable architecture patterns or scalable product improvements. - Previous experience in a fast-paced, high-growth technology environment. Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated range for total on target earnings (including base salary and on target incentive pay) for this role is $165,000 - $205,000 per year. By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy https://notion.notion.site/Notion-Global-Recruiting-Privacy-Policy-fc3eb4e829354a26a2bb6fd5e289b550?pvs=74 and NYLL 144 https://notion.notion.site/Ashby-AI-Bias-Audit-2b0efdeead05803bbbfae159ec86c528. #LI-Onsite ## A NOTE ON AI You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on. ## EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & ACCOMMODATIONS We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Consistent with applicable law, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know. Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. ## About Notion ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Notion is an all-in-one AI workspace that combines documents, databases, wikis, and project management into a single customizable platform. - **Entity Type**: Private (late-stage; last valuation $11B via secondary tender in January 2026) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2013 - **Founders**: Ivan Zhao (CEO), Simon Last (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Productivity software / AI workspace - **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – freelancers, small teams, mid-market, and enterprise organizations - **Mission**: “Make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.” ## Products & Services - **Notion (Core Workspace)**: A flexible SaaS platform that replaces separate tools for notes, docs, knowledge bases, project tracking, and databases. Highly customizable with templates and integrations. - **Notion AI**: Integrated AI assistant for writing, summarizing, brainstorming, and automating workflows within the workspace. - **Notion API & Integrations**: Allows developers to build custom automations and connect Notion with other tools (Slack, Google Drive, Jira, etc.). - **Notion Mail (in development)**: An AI-powered email client that rethinks inbox management, currently in beta. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: $11 billion (set in a January 2026 secondary tender offer) - **Key Metric**: Total funding approximately $347M (Series D in 2021 at $10B valuation); annual revenue not publicly disclosed - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Tiger Global, CRV (past rounds); strategic partnerships with companies like Slack and Google. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew from ~800 (2024) to ~1,000 (2026); 148 open roles as of April 2026; global expansion with offices in San Francisco, New York, Dublin, Tokyo, Seoul, Hyderabad, Sydney, and more; heavy investment in AI features and enterprise sales. ## Competitive Advantages - **All-in-one flexibility**: Replaces multiple point solutions (Confluence, Evernote, Trello, etc.) with a single, highly customizable workspace. - **Strong brand loyalty**: High NPS and 4.3/5 Glassdoor rating; 89% of employees would recommend working there. - **AI-native integration**: Notion AI is deeply embedded into the core product, not a bolt-on, giving it an edge over legacy tools. - **Engineering-driven culture**: CEO Ivan Zhao is deeply involved in product details, fostering a craft-obsessed engineering culture. ## Strategic Focus - **AI leadership**: Expanding AI capabilities (AI Capture, AI Workflows, Agentic Search) to make Notion the central hub for both human and AI agent collaboration. - **Enterprise adoption**: Building out sales, customer success, and security features to win larger accounts. - **Global hiring**: Opening new offices in APAC and Europe to support international growth and talent acquisition. - **Product expansion**: Developing new surfaces like Notion Mail and deepening integrations to increase stickiness. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Engineering-driven, transparent, and kind. Values include “Customer in every room,” “Own the outcome,” “Why not today?,” and “Direct and kind.” - **Work policy**: Hybrid – required in-office Monday, Tuesday, Thursday; remote flexibility the other two days. Offices in major global cities. - **Compensation**: Competitive – median engineer total compensation ~$330K, top-end ~$735K (2026 data). Includes equity, bonuses, and benefits. - **Benefits**: Fully covered medical/dental/vision, flexible PTO, paid parental leave, mental health services (therapy, coaching), family-forming/fertility support, monthly lifestyle stipend, learning & development funds, commuter benefits, retirement plan with match, and more. - **Growth**: 148 open roles across engineering, product, design, sales, customer experience, and more – strong signal of active scaling. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Explicit DEI programs, gender affirmation funds, and a commitment to building a diverse team. ## Sources 1. [Notion Careers Page](https://www.notion.com/careers) 2. [Notion Open Positions (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/notion) 3. [JobsByCulture – Working at Notion in 2026](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-notion-2026) 4. [Built In – Notion Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/notion) 5. 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