Business Systems Architect

Company: Notion
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

About Us: Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money. In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays. About the Role We are looking for an architect who is excited about designing the future of Notion’s internal systems a future where AI is not an add-on, but the core engine that powers how our business operates. You will design the architecture that blends our foundational systems (Notion, Salesforce, Workday, NetSuite, Marketo, Gainsight) with a rapidly evolving AI layer that accelerates workflows, improves decision making, and unlocks step-change productivity across every team. This is a role for someone who thinks beyond traditional systems design. Someone who sees how agentic workflows, automation, data integrity, and system architecture all connect. Someone who can build the blueprint for a smarter, faster, more scalable Notion. What You Will Achieve Architect the end to end business systems landscape, integrating our core platforms with AI powered automation and agent workflows Design the technical foundation for our AI layer, including headless agents, interactive agents, vertical domain agents, and orchestration patterns Build frameworks for how Salesforce, Workday, NetSuite, Gainsight, and Data flow into and out of AI models and decision engines Partner with GTM, CS, Finance, People, and Data teams to identify high impact jobs to be done and translate them into system and AI enabled solutions Lead architecture reviews and solution design for high stakes initiatives, ensuring choices are scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned with our long term vision Create standards, patterns, and governance for automation, integrations, and system to system data flows Build documentation, diagrams, and architectural blueprints that clarify how humans, systems, and AI work together Serve as a thought partner to leadership on how AI can accelerate Notion’s operations, reduce manual work, and create differentiated internal capabilities Skills You Need to Bring Six or more years in business systems architecture, enterprise architecture, or senior technical design roles Deep understanding of GTM, Finance, and People systems (Salesforce, Workday, NetSuite, Gainsight, iPaaS platforms) and how they interact Experience designing or implementing AI driven workflows, automation frameworks, or agent based systems Strong grounding in integration patterns, data modeling, system reliability, and scalable automation Ability to translate business requirements into elegant, long lasting architecture Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, BizTech, RevOps, Data, and executive stakeholders Curiosity, experimental mindset, and the desire to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving AI landscape A bias for action paired with a high bar for technical depth and clarity You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you. Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco and New York, the estimated base salary range for this role is $220,000-$250,000 per year. By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy and NYLL 144 LI-Onsite

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