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Design Advocate - Architect

Los Angeles, CAOnsite
Summary

Senior architect role bridging Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success for an AI-powered design platform. Serves as in-house practitioner voice, owns GTM enablement, and drives industry leadership.

About the role

What You’ll Own

Product Partnership & Customer Advocacy

  • Embed in product discovery and roadmap conversations as Pirros’ in-house AEC practitioner
  • Pressure-test ideas against real-world workflows, identify adoption risks early, and advocate for what customers actually need
  • Maintain visibility into upcoming launches and roadmap changes well ahead of broader GTM rollout
  • Feed customer and field insights directly back into Product discovery

GTM Enablement & Launch Readiness

  • Translate product updates and launches into actionable GTM enablement materials
  • Own pre-launch readiness checkpoints to ensure no major feature ships without appropriate positioning, enablement, communication, and internal preparedness
  • Serve as the technical and practitioner counterpart to Marketing by validating technical accuracy and strengthening messaging credibility

Sales & Customer Support

  • Act as a technical resource for Sales, supporting strategic customer conversations, participating in complex demos, and bringing senior architect credibility when needed
  • Partner with Customer Success to help field advanced workflow and product questions while routing valuable customer feedback back into Product and Engineering
  • Equip GTM teams proactively with the context and workflow expertise they need before issues arise in active deals

Industry Leadership & Market Intelligence

  • Represent Pirros externally as a practitioner voice through industry events, webinars, podcasts, AIA/Autodesk University participation, and customer roundtables
  • Deliver AIA-accredited continuing education programs as a high-trust GTM and brand-building channel
  • Maintain and disseminate Pirros’ perspective on the evolving AEC landscape

Who You Are

  • Practiced architecture at a respected firm and understand what it feels like to deliver projects under real deadlines
  • Deep familiarity with Revit workflows, content standards, BIM coordination, and detail management challenges
  • Strong understanding of how architecture firms operate both operationally and commercially, including project delivery, profitability, staffing, scheduling, and interdisciplinary coordination
  • Exceptional communicator and equally comfortable building a demo, leading a webinar, writing a battlecard, or presenting to executives
  • Naturally proactive in sharing context and communicating without waiting to be asked
  • Highly collaborative and comfortable working across Product, Sales, Marketing, and CS without stepping on ownership boundaries
  • Thrive in ambiguity and excited to help build the bridge process while actively serving as the bridge
  • Able to hold your own with senior engineers, PMs, architects, executives, and enterprise customers alike

Nice to Have

  • AIA license
  • Experience managing BIM standards, content standards, or detail libraries at a mid-to-large architecture firm
  • Existing industry presence through speaking engagements, AU/AIA participation, podcasts, or thought leadership
  • Prior experience working closely with a software company (advisor, beta customer, customer council, or in-house)
  • Sales enablement tools, CRM systems, demo environments, or analytics tools
Skills
RevitBIM coordinationBIM standardsContent standardsDetail managementAEC workflowsProject deliveryArchitectureAIA accreditationSales enablement