Solutions Architect, EMEA

Job description

About Exa We raised a $250M Series C to build the search engine for AIs. Led by a16z, with existing investors Benchmark, Lightspeed, and YC doubling down, the round brings Exa's valuation to $2.2 billion. Exa is building a search engine for the AI era. Our Search API currently powers Agents, Fortune 500s, and AI labs as we transform an industry that hasn't been disrupted since the 90s. We're a largely SF-based team of ~100 from Harvard, MIT, Meta, Google Research, ex-founders, and dropouts alike. We are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history. We're high agency, low-ego, and united by the feeling that this is one of the last problems worth getting right. About the Role Solutions Architects are the technical tip of the spear in Exa's presales motion. From the first call to the technical win, you're the person who shows prospects what Exa can do and proves it works for their use case. You partner with Account Executives on new accounts and new opportunities, and you're measured on technical wins, POC conversion, and pipeline velocity. You'll cover accounts across EMEA from our London office. You'll run discovery with engineers and executives, build demos that land, design and run workshops and proofs of concept, and make the technical case for Exa against alternatives. When a deal needs specialist depth, you pull in our Forward Deployed Engineers. When a deal closes, you hand the customer off to them with everything they need to get to production fast. This is not a demo-only role. You are an engineer who sells. In this role, you will: Lead the technical side of new opportunities alongside Account Executives, from first call through technical win Run discovery to understand a prospect's use case, architecture, data needs, and success criteria, and qualify where Exa fits Build and deliver tailored demos , sample apps, and prototypes that show what Exa can do on the prospect's own problem Design and run workshops and POCs with clear success criteria, timelines, and evaluation plans, then drive them to a decision Win technical evaluations by benchmarking Exa on quality, latency, and cost, and making a clear case against alternatives Handle technical objections and answer security, compliance, and architecture questions Bring in Forward Deployed Engineers as specialists when a deal needs deeper expertise, and run a clean handoff to them aft…