Senior Solutions Architect
Klaviyo · Salt Lake City, UT · 1 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
Core Responsibilities
Shape and scope strategic engagements
- Assist in defining Statements of Work (SOWs) that clearly articulate scope, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and success metrics for complex technical engagements, ensuring alignment between customer goals and Klaviyo delivery capabilities.
- Lead consultative conversations with customers to clarify business objectives, identify risks, and translate desired outcomes into actionable technical implementation plans.
Lead strategic technical engagements
- Serve as the owner for key technical phases of the customer journey, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and in line with agreed outcomes.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to maintain visibility, accountability, and momentum toward customer goals.
- Anticipate risks, build mitigation strategies, and adjust plans to keep enterprise projects on track.
Act as a strategic advisor and subject-matter expert
- Become a deep expert in the Klaviyo platform and surrounding martech ecosystem, from data models and integrations to messaging channels (Email, SMS) and CDP use cases.
- Translate customer business goals into technical and operational solutions that leverage platform capabilities and best practices.
- Educate and enable internal teams and customer stakeholders, becoming the go-to resource for complex questions, best practices, and solution tradeoffs.
Drive repeatable, scalable solutions and continuous improvement
- Approach engagements with a highly analytical mindset - solving for the specific customer first, then identifying patterns and codifying repeatable solutions or feeding insights to internal product and engineering teams.
- Contribute to internal initiatives and process improvements that elevate overall Professional Services delivery quality and consistency.
- Maintain excellent operational hygiene by regularly updating tools and systems (e.g., project status, risks, timesheets) without management reminders.
- Transform workflows by putting AI at the center, building smarter systems and ways of working from the ground up.
Lead through influence and mentorship
- Demonstrate executive presence and the ability to articulate solution tradeoffs, securing buy-in from technical and non-technical stakeholders across all organizational levels.
- Provide informal coaching and mentorship to peers, sharing best practices and supporting skill development across the team.
Technical Solution Leadership
- Serve as an ongoing technical advisor for enterprise customers, translating business goals into robust technical designs that align with objectives and industry best practices.
- Take full ownership of technical deliverables and their project milestones, collaborating with customer teams and internal teams to ensure high-quality outcomes.
- Use your technical expertise to design and prototype tailored and scalable solutions for internal and external projects.
- Quantify and communicate business cases for product enhancements, using evidence from customer usage to inform roadmap discussions for enterprise needs.
- Act with urgency and precision to troubleshoot complex technical issues, ensuring customers receive best-in-class support during critical moments.