# Forward Deployed Architect

**Company:** [Notion](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/notion)
**Location:** Tokyo, Japan
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Notion, Notion Ai, APIs, Mcp, Workers, Developer Platform, AI Agents, Automations, Integrations, Data Models, Enterprise Systems, Change Management, Solutions Architecture, Project Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-27

> Design and deploy scalable Notion architectures and AI-native workflows for Japanese enterprise customers, guiding engagements from discovery through launch and adoption. Requires 5+ years in customer-facing services or solutions architecture, strong technical and consultative skills, and fluency in Japanese.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner with customers on forward-deployed engagements from discovery through launch, translating business goals and workflow requirements into scalable solution designs and Notion solutions.
- Design scalable Notion architectures incorporating customer workflows, permissions, governance needs, integrations, and AI use cases.
- Design and deploy AI-native workflows using Notion AI, custom agents, automations, Workers, Developer Platform capabilities, and adjacent AI tools.
- Partner with Forward Deployed Engineering on migrations, API constraints, security architecture, and advanced implementations.
- Design adoption plans, enablement materials, and launch approaches that drive sustained usage and measurable business value.
- Convert repeatable engagement patterns into packaged solutions, templates, reference architectures, runbooks, enablement assets, and product feedback.
- Serve as a trusted customer advisor by simplifying complex technical requirements and recommending practical tradeoffs.
- Partner with GTM, Product, Engineering, PMM, Services leadership, and the partner ecosystem.
- Create implementation plans, handoff materials, and success measures aligned with customer and internal teams.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in tech services, consulting, solutions architecture, implementation, customer engineering, or a similar customer-facing role.
- Ability to translate ambiguous customer goals into workflows, implementation plans, solution architectures, and measurable success criteria.
- Strong consultative discovery skills, including workflow mapping, pain-point identification, operating-model analysis, technical-constraint discovery, and future-state solution design.
- Hands-on experience using AI tools to design, prototype, automate, or improve business workflows.
- Technical fluency with APIs, integrations, data models, automation, enterprise systems, developer workflows, and implementation tradeoffs.
- Experience delivering implementations that drive adoption, change management, and long-term customer value.
- Strong project and engagement management skills, including ownership of scope, timelines, deliverables, stakeholder alignment, risks, decisions, dependencies, and launch readiness.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication with business, technical, and executive audiences.
- Strong executive presence and customer judgment.
- Written and spoken Japanese fluency.

## Nice to Have
- Experience designing or deploying agents, automations, or AI-powered customer workflows.
- 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.
- Experience partnering with Product and Engineering to turn field learnings into roadmap signals, reusable architecture patterns, or product improvements.
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth technology environment.
- Business-level English proficiency.
- Experience with Japanese enterprise customers or familiarity with Japan’s market dynamics and business practices.

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