Company Description
Assent is the leading AI native platform for supply chain sustainability and compliance, trusted by complex manufacturers and distributors around the world. Built and backed by experts who have led global compliance programs, our unified platform combines advanced AI, regulatory expertise, and the world’s largest supply chain data network to help organizations reduce risk, lower operational costs, and build trust across every tier of the value chain. From human rights and responsible sourcing to PFAS reporting and Digital Product Passports, Assent transforms regulatory complexity into actionable insights that drive real business outcomes.
With over 900 team members across India, North America, Malaysia, the EU, and Kenya and more than 1,000 customers globally, Assent brings together global perspective and deep domain expertise. Our hybrid work model enables teams to collaborate effectively across regions while staying connected to the communities where they live and work. As a certified B Corporation, we meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. This reflects our commitment to building technology that drives business performance while creating long-term value for people and the planet.
People First. Technology Forward.
Our commitment to People, Culture & Community (PCC) is rooted in building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing team. We recruit and retain team members with a range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, while fostering a culture of belonging where all Assentees are respected, supported, and empowered to contribute.
As we continue to embed AI into how we work, we do so thoughtfully, enhancing human potential, supporting better decision-making, and prioritizing appropriate oversight, privacy, and fairness.
At Assent, we value your privacy and are committed to maintaining transparency in how we handle your personal information. As part of our talent acquisition and management processes, we may use AI technologies to support activities such as resume screening, candidate communication, and talent analytics.
Job Description
Assent is expanding its AI capabilities to support more efficient, data-driven, and scalable ways of working across the organization. As part of this transformation, we are seeking a GenAI Solution Architect to lead the design, governance, and technical delivery of AI-powered solutions that enhance productivity and empower teams across the business.
This role reports directly to the Senior Director, Technology & Data Solutions, and serves as the technical leader for our AI engineering function, providing architectural direction and technical leadership to GenAI Developers and partnering closely with stakeholders across Technology, Data, Privacy, Security, and business teams. You will define the patterns, guardrails, and architectural foundations that ensure AI solutions are reliable, secure, scalable, and aligned with Assent’s standards — while enabling responsible and effective use of AI across the company.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to influence and collaborate across functions. You will play a central role in shaping how Assent leverages AI to streamline operations, unlock efficiency, and equip teams with modern tools that augment their work.
Architecture & Solution Design
Lead the design of production-grade GenAI solutions including copilots, automated workflows, retrieval systems, and agent-based architectures.
Develop and maintain reusable patterns, reference architectures, design standards, and code templates.
Provide solution design leadership and architectural oversight for all AI initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise technology strategy.
Evaluate emerging LLM capabilities and guide model selection, integration strategy, and implementation approach.
Engineering Leadership
Provide technical guidance, oversight, training, and enablement to both specialized GenAI program developers and citizen developers/champions across the organization, ensuring high-quality implementation aligned with architectural standards.
Provide architectural leadership and delivery oversight to cross-functional team members mobilized for GenAI projects, ensuring their work aligns with established patterns, standards, and governance requirements.
Translate solution designs into clear engineering specifications and development plans.
Oversee code quality, development workflows, testing strategies, and deployment processes.
Ensure solutions include monitoring, auditability, fallback paths, and long-term maintainability.
Governance & Responsible AI
Implement technical guardrails for secure data handling, privacy, PII isolation, logging, and responsible AI usage.
Govern citizen-developer activity and ensure consistency with enterprise standards.
Partner with Security, Privacy, Legal, and Data Governance to identify risks and ensure compliance.
Participate in the enterprise AI governance framework, providing technical guidance and architectural assessments.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Collaborate with business stakeholders to refine use cases, assess feasibility, and translate operational needs into technical workflows.
Support the AI Champions ecosystem with patterns, guidance, and technical enablement.
Contribute to roadmap planning, intake, and prioritization for enterprise AI initiatives.
Work closely with Enterprise Integrations, Data engineering, and Enterprise Architecture to ensure consistent integration with core systems and data platforms.
Qualifications
We strongly value your talent, energy and passion. It will also be valuable to Assent if you have the following qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in technical roles with demonstrated progression in responsibility and scope, including specialized experience in technology solution design, applied AI engineering, or system integration.
Demonstrated experience designing and deploying production-grade LLM applications, including copilots, agents, RAG systems, or workflow automation.
Strong proficiency in Python, with experience building modular, maintainable components for AI-driven workflows.
Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or DSPy, and familiarity with agent-based design patterns.
Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including serverless compute, API integration, monitoring, and logging.
Experience designing secure and responsible AI solutions with considerations for PII handling, privacy, auditability, and compliance.
Ability to translate business needs into clear architectural designs, solution patterns, and development specifications.
Proven experience providing technical guidance to developers or cross-functional engineering contributors.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate AI system behavior and optimize workflows using performance metrics.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and articulate complex concepts clearly.
Additional Information
Life at Assent
Wellness: We believe that you and your family’s well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.
Financial Benefits: It’s not all about the money – well, it’s a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.
Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.
Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.
At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included, treated with dignity and respect, promoted on their merits, and placed in positions to contribute to business success.
If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process, please contact [email protected] and we will be happy to help.
We use AI to support parts of our recruitment process, such as note-taking and initial shortlisting based on job-related qualifications. AI does not make hiring decisions. All candidates will speak with a real person, and final decisions are always made by our recruitment team.
