Salesforce Success Architect

Salesforce, Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking an Industry Success Architect to drive strategic outcomes across multiple Industry Clouds. You will focus on scalability, security, and best practices while aligning technology with core business goals and leveraging AI-powered analytics.

You will partner with customers and internal teams to design architectures, optimize adoption, and deliver executive-level deliverables. Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience across multiple Industry Clouds (Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary).
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proven track record in guiding customers on architectural decisions and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Drive Customer Impact by assessing Industry Cloud implementations and providing expert recommendations on architecture and lifecycle management.
• Lead with Multi-Cloud Expertise as SME in designated Industry Clouds, aligning technology strategy with product best practices.
• Communicate clearly to executives and technical teams, translating complex topics into actionable guidance.
• Innovate to identify gaps and propose enhancements or custom solutions driving long-term adoption.
• Execute strategies using Industry Cloud playbooks and collaborate across teams to maximize customer success.

Skills

Multi-cloud

Industry Clouds

AI/GenAI

Communication

Tools

Salesforce Einstein

AI analytics

Job description

Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Cloud Success is a specialized team within Customer Success, bringing together technical architects, customer support engineers, and product advisors. This team delivers expert guidance on optimizing and demonstrating Salesforce technology to drive long-term business success, in addition to resolving technical issues.

Success Architects are a pivotal part of the Cloud Success team, supporting Salesforce's most critical and strategic customers. They provide expert guidance on solution design, focusing on scalability, security, and adherence to standard methodologies. By assessing system performance, they help to optimize efficiency and reliability while proactively identifying risks and recommending improvements to maintain technical health. Success Architects empower businesses to maximize their Salesforce investment by aligning technology with core business goals.

The Industry Success Architect collaborates across Customer Success and the Product organization to drive long-term customer solutions. This includes resolving immediate technical challenges with support engineers while identifying root causes, partnering with customer success managers on strategic guidance and long-term technology health, and liaising with product teams to surface customer feedback for product improvements.

Key Responsibilities:

As an Industry Success Architect, you will specialize in multiple Industry Clouds with primary, secondary, and tertiary areas of expertise. You will:

• Drive Customer Impact - Partner with our most strategic and high-priority customers, assessing their Industry Cloud implementations and delivering expert recommendations on technical architecture, solution design, application lifecycle management, reliability, and feature adoption.
• Lead with Multi-Cloud Expertise - Serve as a trusted Subject Matter Expert (SME) in your designated Industry Clouds, providing both proactive and reactive guidance on architecture, technology strategy, thought leadership, and product best practices. You will help the team stay at the forefront of Industry Cloud innovations, ensuring they are equipped with the latest product developments and emerging trends.
• Communicate with Clarity - Simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, from technical teams to executive leadership, positioning yourself as a trusted advisor in key business and technology discussions.
• Innovate & Solve Problems - Identify capability gaps and design inefficiencies, recommending product enhancements or creative custom solutions that drive customer success and long-term adoption.
• Execute Proven Strategies - Leverage and tailor Success Architect playbooks to meet the unique challenges and opportunities of your Industry Cloud customers.
• Build Strong Relationships - Collaborate with internal and external partners, fostering connections that drive customer success, product improvement, and overall business growth.
• Lead enterprise success strategy with an AI First mindset - using Salesforce Einstein, Agentforce, and AI-powered analytics as primary tools for designing, modeling, and continuously optimizing customer success programs
• Apply generative AI to develop executive-level deliverables including strategic business reviews, value realization frameworks, and multi-stakeholder success plans - with strong human judgment applied to business context and executive narrative
• Leverage AI-generated portfolio insights to identify whitespace opportunities, adoption barriers, and risk indicators, driving strategic recommendations and C-level alignment
• Serve as an internal thought leader and practitioner on AI-augmented success practices - defining standards, playbooks, and governance for AI tool usage in partnership with CS leadership

Required Multi-Cloud Aptitude:

We are looking for individuals with expertise spanning multiple Industry Clouds (Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary) from the following list. Prioritization of these clouds is geographically diverse, but we are primarily seeking skills in:

• Life Sciences Cloud
• Public Sector
• Financial Services Cloud
• Revenue Cloud & Billing
• Manufacturing Cloud
• Automotive Cloud
• Education Cloud
• Net Zero Cl