We are looking for a Technical Architect who enjoys crafting solutions for conversational experiences, while helping Zendesk clients be successful on our platform. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing organization, making a difference in the Customer Experience market. If you have service delivery experience and enjoy interacting with customers who are transforming their business, we'd love to talk.
This is a external customer facing role, you will be responsible for engaging with stakeholders at all levels (both internal and customer-facing) to understand and solve customer pain points, and get hands-on with the product to ensure the optimization, maintenance, and growth of the Zendesk configuration across a portfolio of customers.
Responsibilities
Seek to understand our current & new customers needs and lead technically oriented customer conversations.
Communicate highly technical concepts to a variety of audiences, including executive-level technical decision-makers.
Responsible for Solution Architecture Design and sharing technical solutions for customer use cases.
Suggest workarounds to fill product gaps while working with the Product team to actively suggest product improvements based on market business needs.
Lead highly technical discussions on a broad variety of technologies.
This roles sits within the Service Consulting team
What You'll Bring To The Team
Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) and 3+ delivering consulting services and/or programming experience with languages like Ruby, Python, Java, or JavaScript.
Experience working on multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities to bring your projects to completion.
Excellent analytical & project management skills, including the ability to meet a business requirement with a technical solution.
Strong solution prioritization abilities.
Experience with RESTful API.
Experience developing, selling, or supporting SaaS applications.
Experience in various technical concepts (web development, web sockets, mobile development, backend development, automation…).
Strong communication skills.
Where We Work
In this role, you’ll work primarily remotely with the support of a dynamic and caring team. We’ll provide you with the digital tools and experiences to be together–even when we’re apart. Being digital first doesn’t mean we’re digital only.
You’ll also have the flexibility to join us at a Zendesk workspace, in one of our Zendesk offices or our flex office spaces. We will bring our people together on occasion to connect, collaborate, learn, or celebrate in person.
The US annualized base salary range for this position is $90,000.00-$134,000.00. This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives. While this range reflects the minimum and maximum value for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations, the offer for the successful candidate for this position will be based on job related capabilities, applicable experience, and other factors such as work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only (or OTE for commissions based roles), and do not include bonus, benefits, or related incentives.Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.
The intelligent heart of customer experience
Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.
Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.
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