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Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters-at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.\nAt IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.\nWe celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.\nBy joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.\nWe’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.\nIf you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.\n Purpose\nAs an AI Solution Architect, you are part of the industry’s most formidable solution engineering force. You work across the IFS AI portfolio, applying deep domain expertise within ERP, EAM, or FSM (in some cases more than one of these disciplines) to win strategic deals, elevate presales performance, and drive go-to-market innovation across regions and market units.\nYou are a senior technical specialist and trusted advisor who leads high-impact strategic pursuits at the intersection of the AI portfolio and your domain. You bring the AI solution set to life in the language of ERP, EAM, and FSM buyers shaping our solution engineering tactics, raising the quality bar across presales, and enabling key talent across market units in the core business. You collaborate broadly across Sales, Marketing, R&D, and GTM functions to strengthen execution and accelerate innovation. In short: this role is about representing and developing our AI market leadership through the presales function, grounded in real industry and domain depth.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnical Win Pursuits / Sales Execution\nLead from the front in qualified, high-impact AI pursuits by applying solution, AI portfolio, and industry depth, tailoring demonstrations and delivering proof-of-value engagements that drive customer confidence. Set the quality bar and avoid scope creep. This role has a key emphasis on this activity: Ensuring technical win pursuit excellence across the pipeline.\nAI Portfolio Depth & Domain Translation\nAct as the connective tissue between the AI portfolio and your domain (ERP, EAM, and/or FSM). Translate AI capabilities into credible, domain-specific outcomes and architectures, and ensure solutions are technically sound and implementable.\nTrusted Advisor Across the Business\nProvide insight-based guidance to shape marketing campaigns, sales plays, messaging, roadmap priorities, and competitive positioning for the AI portfolio within your domain.\nPresales Performance Elevation\nStrengthen presales execution through key content creation, storytelling, reusable asset development, mentoring, and setting the example in delivery excellence.\nGTM Innovation\nDrive evolution in our AI go-to-market model through cross-functional collaboration, industry-specific sales plays, and field innovation. The emphasis will always be on strategic deal execution, but the balance between these focus areas may vary depending on individual expertise and evolving business needs.\nSubject Matter Expertise\nThe AI Solution Architect carries deep domain expertise in one or more of the following, paired with strong command of the IFS AI portfolio:\nERP-centric: Deep understanding of enterprise resource planning processes, market dynamics, and the competitive landscape.\nEAM-centric: Deep understanding of enterprise asset management (EAM), APM, and AIP market dynamics.\nFSM-centric: Deep understanding of field service software market dynamics, including products, competitors, customers, and partners.\nMulti-domain: Several architects will operate credibly across two or more of these disciplines.\nSuccess Metrics\nContribution to AI portfolio revenue targets in partnership with sales leadership.\nMeasurable improvement in presales readiness and win rates on qualified opportunities.\nQuality and reuse of solution assets, demonstrations, and proof-of-value engagements.\nField-sensed product feedback that fuels future AI portfolio innovation.\n Ideal Candidate Profile\nSelf-Starter and Fast Learner: Thrives in a high-paced, dynamic business environment. 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