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Conduct talent mapping, market research, proactive sourcing, and pipeline development across technical, business, and leadership roles. Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to define target profiles, identify passive candidates, analyze talent availability and compensation trends, and deliver actionable market intelligence. Build evergreen talent communities, improve research workflows and tools, and adapt quickly to changing hiring priorities.

Build AI-powered workflows, agents, integrations, and internal tools that automate People Operations. Partner with People, Engineering, and IT to modernize onboarding and other employee processes, while implementing secure access controls, human oversight, escalation paths, and production-ready architectures. Prototype with users, iterate quickly, and measure improvements in efficiency, employee experience, and operational consistency.

Own the company’s metric registry and canonical definitions, resolve conflicting metrics, enforce definitions in semantic and catalog systems, and retire redundant reporting assets. Build data quality checks, route failures to accountable owners, and evaluate AI agents against ground truth. Enable trustworthy self-service analytics through governed data. The role requires strong SQL, production ownership of a semantic or metrics layer, data catalog or lineage experience, clear documentation, and cross-functional decision-making.

Lead and coach a recruiting team while owning day-to-day talent acquisition execution across engineering, research, and go-to-market functions. Run full-cycle recruiting, support complex searches, build AI-assisted workflows and scalable recruiting systems, use funnel data to diagnose performance, develop recruiters, and improve hiring quality through structured interviewing and stakeholder coaching.

Partner with the SVP of Customer Success to improve executive effectiveness and organizational operating rigor. Responsibilities include calendar and meeting management, forecasting and business analytics, executive and board reporting, cross-functional initiative coordination, operating-rhythm management, action tracking, process improvement, and synthesizing data into insights, risks, decisions, and recommendations. The role combines executive support, business operations, project management, and analytical judgment.

Designs and maintains automated test frameworks and exploratory suites for products, APIs, SDKs, AI models, and data platforms. Develops functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, API, browser, load, and reliability tests; creates datasets, evaluation pipelines, dashboards, and CI/CD release gates. Partners across Engineering, Research, Product, Data, and Infrastructure to validate model behavior, data quality, performance, and production readiness. Documents reproducible defects, supports triage, and communicates risks.

Own Deepgram’s strategic AWS partnership, including technical adoption, retention, expansion, Marketplace listings, private offers, co-selling, and joint GTM. Serve as AWS’s trusted technical and commercial advisor, lead demos, workshops, architecture guidance, troubleshooting, business reviews, and joint planning. Track usage and growth, influence internal product and GTM strategy, and build AI-powered tools and workflows that eliminate recurring work.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

As the founding engineer of the Data Intelligence team, you will design semantic layers, develop AI tooling, and automate data processes to drive business insights.

As a Solutions Architect at Deepgram, you'll engage with customers post-sales to resolve complex technical issues, create scalable solutions, and enhance support processes, using your engineering skills and experience in customer-focused roles.