Deployment Architect - Email & SMS / Messaging

Hightouch; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hightouch in San Francisco is seeking a technically adept specialist to own enterprise Email/SMS deployments from discovery through production launch. You will lead workshops, translate customer needs into scalable architectures, and drive multi-team collaboration for successful migrations.

You'll collaborate with product and engineering to remove blockers, build scalable processes, and ensure top-tier deliverability and customer success in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in technical implementation or similar customer-facing role.
• Experience implementing or migrating enterprise email/SMS/marketing platforms.
• Strong foundation in APIs, data integrations, and enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end deployment and migration for enterprise Email/SMS customers, from discovery to production launch.
• Lead discovery and workshops, translate customer requirements into scalable messaging architecture.
• Develop migration plans, manage dependencies and mitigate risk.
• Drive implementation across technical and business stakeholders from config to launch readiness.
• Lead SMS provisioning including sender setup and consent flows.
• Collaborate with Deliverability Specialists on sender authentication and deliverability readiness.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, identifying risks and blockers.
• Partner with Product/Engineering to resolve blockers and feed back product gaps.
• Build repeatable frameworks, documentation, and best practices for scalable deployments.

Skills

Technical implementation

Solutions architecture

Professional services

Customer-facing role

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Adobe Campaign

MoEngage

Marketo

Eloqua

Attentive

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Braze

Iterable

Responsys

SendGrid

Twilio

Job description

About Hightouch

Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.

About Hightouch

Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible. Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart. At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses. The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient – and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success. If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Do

• Own the end-to-end deployment and migration for enterprise Email/SMS customers, from technical discovery through successful production launch
• Lead technical discovery and implementation workshops, translating customer requirements into scalable messaging architecture across integrations, data flows, APIs, account structure, and channel configuration
• Assess customers’ existing ESP and messaging infrastructure and develop migration plans that manage dependencies, mitigate risk, and accelerate time-to-value
• Drive implementation across technical and business stakeholders, including configuration, integration, testing, validation, cutover, and launch readiness
• Lead SMS provisioning and implementation, including sender setup and registration, consent and preference flows, and identification of carrier, regulatory, and provisioning dependencies
• Partner with Deliverability Specialists on sender authentication, domain and IP strategy, warm-up, reputation, and overall deliverability readiness
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, proactively identifying architectural decisions, risks, and blockers throughout the deployment
• Partner with Product and Engineering to resolve implementation blockers and bring customer feedback and product gaps back into the organization
• Build repeatable frameworks, documentation, tooling, and best practices that make enterprise deployments more efficient and scalable

What We're Looking For

• 5–10 years of experience in technical implementation, solutions architecture, professional services, or a similar customer-facing technical role
• Experience implementing or migrating enterprise email, SMS, marketing automation, or customer engagement platforms
• Strong technical foundation across APIs, webhooks, data integrations, authentication, and enterprise architecture
• Strong understanding of messaging architecture, including sending domains and IPs, subscriber data, consent and preference management, and transactional vs. marketing messaging
• Experience with SMS provisioning and implementation, including 10DLC, toll-free or short code registration, consent management, and carrier requirements
• Proven ability to lead complex enterprise implementations across multiple technical teams, business stakeholders, and dependencies
• Strong technical project management, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to drive multiple implementations and guide technical decision-making
• Experience developing implementation processes and frameworks that scale as a product and organization grow
• Experience with platforms such as Adobe Campaign, MoEngage, Marketo, Eloqua, Attentive, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, Iterable, Responsys, SendGrid, Twilio, or similar is a strong plus
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience