Solutions Architect
Boston, USA (Hybrid Boston or Remote East Coast)
About Snowplow
Snowplow, the leader in next-generation customer data infrastructure (CDI), empowers data-driven organizations to own and unlock the full potential of their customer behavioral data.
The Snowplow platform fuels AI, advanced analytics, and personalized experiences by enabling companies like Burberry, Strava, and Auto Trader to collect, manage, and operationalize real-time event data from their central data platform of choice. This empowers analytics, data science, product, and marketing teams to gain deeper insights into customer journeys, predict behaviors, deliver unique customer experiences, and detect fraud.
With thousands of companies relying on Snowplow worldwide, we are at the forefront of transforming how data-driven organizations leverage their customer behavioral data.
Following our $40 million Series B funding led by global venture capital firm NEA, known for investments in Databricks, MongoDB, and Elastic, we are seeking creative and innovative individuals to help us shape the future of Snowplow.
The Opportunity
We are always on the look out for standout Solutions Architects who are masterminds at juggling both the technical and commercial consultative conversations. This role sits in our Professional Services team, reporting into the Head of Professional Services. It is absolutely essential that our Solutions Architects are curious about our customers and the problems they are trying to solve.
At Snowplow we see activating our customers as one of the most important functions of our business in terms of retaining and delighting customers. We aim to deeply understand the business and data outcomes that our customers want to see and design implementations of our product around this.
Our Solutions Architecture team works directly with customer data teams to train them on the Snowplow product, co-design and develop bespoke solutions, implement use cases and quantify business value.
What you’ll be doing
● Working on new customer onboarding to map their business needs and design Snowplow centred solutions tailored to the problems they are trying to solve as a business.
● Educating, retaining and growing our customers through delivering tailored workshops.
● Advice on the best tracking implementation strategies and guide customers through the implementation process.
● Develop collaboratively with our Solution Architects the technical artefacts that support organisational success of Snowplow (data product design specs, tracking strategies etc)
● Create customer-facing documentation and suggest process improvements for the role.
● Develop domain expertise in our key verticals through deep customer collaborations, general research, attending industry events/conferences.
● Identify product feedback from customers, spotting trends and surfacing to help shape product roadmap and influence how our tech evolves.
● Be fluent in the technology and able to train newer team members.
● Develop your personal brand by helping with marketing events and webinars.
What you bring to the team
● You understand people. Deeply emotionally intelligent, you can quickly read a room of stakeholders and adopt your delivery style and content quickly, showing them what conceptual ideas look like in reality.
● Creative Problem Solver. Previous experience with a complex software product, ideally designing solutions and gathering requirements, you are comfortable communicating with senior technical stakeholders (CTO, VP Eng, Tech Leads).
● Business challenge? Let me help. A passion for working at the intersection of technology and business problems - this role is always about delivering business impact for our customers through data. You enjoy helping individuals and teams to learn new skills and master technologies.
● Excellent communication skills. Excellent listener, a patient teacher and an empathetic data professional. You make complex concepts easy to understand by showing how they work in practice. You’ll also be a pro-active team player that collaborates with colleagues on projects.
● Experience with Javascript in a frontend environment, preferably with Snowplow or other JS trackers, or experience with setting up tracking through Google Tag Manager
● Previous experience of using Snowplow, whether Snowplow BDP or open source.
● Previous experience with behavioural data and a basic understanding of SQL.
What you get for being awesome
💰 A competitive package, including share options
🏖 23 days of holiday a year (plus 11 bank holidays, including Juneteenth)
🧘 Flexible working
✍️401k
🏥 Medical, dental and vision insurance 🫂 Mental health support including therapy sessions
💻 MacBook and home office equipment allowance
📋Short & long term disability insurance 🫶1 week of volunteering a year for a cause you feel passionate about
👪 Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave
Snowplow is dedicated to building and supporting a brilliant, diverse and hugely inclusive team. We don’t discriminate against gender, race, religion or belief, disability, age, marital status or sexual orientation. Whatever your background may be, we welcome anyone with talent, drive and emotional intelligence.
