Head of AI Enabled Business Systems

The posting, as Fireworks wrote it

ABOUT US

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Head of Business Systems to build and lead the systems, processes, and technology foundation that enables our company to scale.

As we grow, the complexity of our business is increasing across GTM, Accounting&Finance, Data team and Operations. This role will own the strategy and execution for the business applications and workflows that connect these teams, ensuring our systems are scalable, integrated, secure, and designed around how the business actually operates.
You will be responsible for defining our business systems roadmap, building a high-performing team, improving core enterprise platforms, driving automation and AI adoption, and partnering closely with business leaders to translate operational needs into durable systems and processes.

A key part of this role will be establishing how AI tools and AI-enabled capabilities integrate into the broader enterprise technology ecosystem. You will evaluate, implement, and govern AI tooling that improves employee productivity, automates business workflows, and extends the capabilities of existing enterprise applications while ensuring appropriate security, data, and governance standards.

This is a highly cross-functional leadership role for someone who can operate at both the strategic and execution level: setting architecture and governance standards while also driving complex transformation programs to completion.

WHAT YOU’LL OWN

BUSINESS SYSTEMS STRATEGY & ARCHITECTURE

• Define and own the company-wide business systems strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmap.
• Establish a scalable application ecosystem across core functions starting with centralized finance and connect upper stream and down stream applications.
• Evaluate when to buy, build, consolidate, integrate, or retire systems.
• Develop standards for system architecture, integrations, data ownership, automation, and application lifecycle management.
• Define an enterprise approach for evaluating and integrating AI tools, AI-enabled applications, and agentic capabilities into the business systems architecture.
• Ensure the technology stack evolves ahead of the company's growth rather than becoming a constraint on it.

ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS

• Own the portfolio of critical business applications, which may include platforms such as Oracle Netsuite, Ironcl

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perience supporting international operations, M&A integration, or multi-entity environments.

LEADERSHIP PROFILE

The ideal candidate is

• Business-first: Starts with the operating problem rather than the technology.
• Architecturally minded: Builds systems that work together rather than accumulating disconnected tools.
• Pragmatic: Knows when to optimize, when to simplify, and when “good enough” is the right answer.
• Highly accountable: Owns outcomes from strategy through implementation and adoption.
• Influential: Can align executives and teams with competing priorities.
• Scalable in thinking: Designs for where the company is going, not only where it is today.
• Technically credible: Can engage deeply with architects, developers, security teams, vendors, and AI technology partners while communicating clearly with business leaders.

REPORTING & SCOPE

This role will report to the Head of Finance and Operations and will partner closely with leaders across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, People, Legal, Security, Data, and Engineering.
The role will lead the Business Systems / Enterprise Applications organization and will be responsible for a portfolio of critical enterprise applications, integrations, automation platforms, AI tooling, and transformation programs.

WHY FIREWORKS?

• Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
• Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
• Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
• Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.

Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.