Senior AI ISV Ecosystem Tech Strategist

Red Hat

Senior AI Ecosystem Tech Strategist leading technical strategy for joint offerings with AI ISVs. Driving alignment with Red Hat's AI portfolio to key strategic ISV partners.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $147,820 - $243,690 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

KubernetesOpenShift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as the primary technical lead for defining the vision of joint offerings with AI ISVs.
Direct engagement with AI ISV product leadership and key infrastructure partner leaders to align future roadmaps and identify strategic opportunities.
Serve as a primary conduit to the Ecosystem Engineering team.
Perform initial architectural scoping specifically to identify the technical gaps and requirements needed for new offerings.
Lead contribution of key partner product, solution, and use-case strategies for AI ISV partners in the overall AI Ecosystem strategy.
Collaborate with the AI Tech Sales team and the AI Tech Sales Eco Global Leader to ensure that technical offering definitions are successfully transitioned into field-ready sales motions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in technical leadership with a proven ability to drive joint strategy with global partners including major SaaS ISVs, Enterprise ISVs, NVIDIA or major OEMs.
Clear understanding of how ISVs package and deliver AI technology to SaaS or enterprise environments.
Strong knowledge of Agentic AI, AI Inference, model post training, and other key AI technologies.
Expert ability to source requirements from external partners and prioritize them effectively for internal engineering and product teams.
Ability to use high-level architecture as a tool for requirement gathering rather than an end-goal.
Deep understanding of the business drivers for AI, including private compute, the cost of inference at scale, and sovereign AI requirements.
Ability to identify market opportunities and direct resources to build solutions that fill them.
Excellence in defining clear technical handoffs to both Engineering (for build) and GTM teams (for sale).
Knowledge of OpenShift, Kubernetes, RHEL, Inference, and the NVIDIA software portfolio (NVAIE).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
Retirement 401(k) with employer match
Paid time off and holidays
Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

technical leadershipAI technologyAgentic AIAI Inferencemodel post traininghigh-level architecturerequirement gatheringmarket opportunity identificationsolution building

Soft Skills

strategic alignmentcollaborationprioritizationcommunicationdefining technical handoffs