Senior Collaboration Architect

LiveRamp; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) matching

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Job summary

LiveRamp in New York City offers a hybrid, client-facing role focused on designing and delivering scalable data collaboration programs for major brands and partners. You will shape strategies across data hygiene, identity, privacy, governance, and operating models while partnering with strategic customers to drive measurable business value.

The role sits in Customer Growth & Insights (CGI) and requires deep technical fluency, program leadership, and strong communication to align Product, Data,

Qualifications

• 8-15 years of experience in data infrastructure, ad tech, data partnerships, or related field.
• Experience leading complex data programs for enterprise customers.
• Strong written and verbal communication for cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with strategic customers to translate ambitions into end-to-end data collaboration programs.
• Lead customers on data/tech approach, privacy framework, and operating model.
• Co-build customer operating models into a scalable Master Playbook.
• Engage with customers' agencies and data science partners to remove barriers and accelerate growth.
• Support pre-sales with scoping requirements and readiness assessments.
• Provide actionable product feedback to the product team on friction points.

Skills

Data partnerships

Solutions architecture

Program leadership

Analytics consulting

Tools

AWS

Azure

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

LiveRamp is shaping the future of responsible data collaboration between the world’s leading brands, retailers, financial services providers, and healthcare innovators. As consumers embrace new AI-driven experiences, the LiveRamp data collaboration network exponentially expands the breadth and accuracy of the data on which marketing AI capabilities operate, powering deeper customer insight and measurable performance on a global scale. LiveRamp is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices worldwide. Learn more at LiveRamp.com.

LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform trusted by 97% of the top 100 US advertisers. We provide the world’s leading publishers, retailers, media networks, brands, and platforms with the infrastructure and expertise to build privacy-safe data partnerships of the kind that generate real, measurable business outcomes at scale.
Our customers include some of the world’s most data-rich and strategically important organizations, including Microsoft, NBCU, TikTok, Uber, major publishers, and a growing number of retail and commerce media networks who are building the next generation of audience and measurement products. These companies have made significant investments in data collaboration infrastructure.

The Collaboration Architect helps them turn those investments into durable, scalable business value. Collaboration Architects help customers move from infrastructure investment to repeatable business impact. You will shape programs that connect data, technology, people, and commercial strategy, and leave behind operating models that continue to create value long after the initial build is complete.

This role sits within Customer Growth & Insights (CGI), the team responsible for expanding program depth and network scale across LiveRamp’s most strategic accounts.

You will work closely with customers to design and operationalize their collaboration programs across three connected pillars:

• Data and technology: data hygiene, identity, privacy, governance, levers for scale (eg, API, MCP) and cloud architecture

• People and operating model: partner collaboration model, roles, workflows, building a Center of Excellence, tradeoffs between custom and scalable offerings

• Go-to-market: Ensuring the above two pillars reinforce the underlying value proposition

The specific plays we run vary by customer, but the objective is consistent: build a program the customer’s team can operate, scale, and improve independently, with LiveRamp as a strategic partner.

If you are energized by complex, high-stakes program builds, thrive at the intersection of technical depth, operating model, and commercial strategy, and take genuine satisfaction in leaving customers stronger than you found them, this role is for you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with strategic customers to translate their ambitions into end-to-end data collaboration programs built on LiveRamp’s platform.

• Lead customers to productive decisions on their data and technology approach, privacy framework, and operating model in the context of the customer’s broader business strategy.

• Co-build the customer’s internal operating model (organizational structure, workflows, training, partner delivery, and role responsibilities) into a Minimum Viable Program that can scale impact efficiently without LiveRamp in the room

• Recommend the best solution at the intersection of LiveRamp’s clean room capabilities and the customer’s business objectives. Use cases may include closed-loop measurement, audience monetization, media-driven attribution, and co-branded data products.

• Identify, engage, and enable the customer’s agency, analytics, and data science partners. Remove operational and technical barriers that would otherwise slow program growth.

• Join late-stage pre-sales efforts with commercial leaders and Solutions Engineering to scope requirements and assess customer go-to-market, technical, and organizational readiness

• Co-produce a Master Playbook with the customer: a transferable, reusable foundation that documents how the customer’s program works

• Maintain a partner network perspective on each account: which collaborators belong in the program, which use cases generate the strongest mutual value, and how the customer should expand over time

• Leverage a customer’s network effects to engage and win over partners new to LiveRamp, embracing them with a high-value first clean room experience

• Feed structured product feedback to the product team on a defined cadence, translating real program friction into actionable input

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience. 8 - 15 years of experience in data infrastructure, ad tech, data partnerships, or a related field, including substantial experience in high-visibility, customer-facing roles such as program leadership, technical delivery, solutions architecture, or analytics consulting. Seniority based on relevant experience.

• Technical depth. Hands-on fluency in at least one of the following areas. Experience applying AI productively in these contexts is highly desirable.

• Cloud data platforms, such as AWS, Azure, Databricks, Google Cloud, or Snowflake
  Privacy-enhancing technologies, including data clean rooms and other PETs
  Identity resolution frameworks, including their capabilities, limitations, and tradeoffs
  Analytics and query design, such as SparkSQL

• Program delivery. A track record of designing and leading complex, multi-stakeholder data programs for enterprise customers. Experience establishing a customer-side

• Center of Excellence or a similar operating model is a strong differentiator
  Marketing and data collaboration expertise. Strong familiarity with at least one of the following domains:

  • Publisher monetization
  • Retail / commerce media
  • Brand data strategy, or
  • Measurement and analytics

• You understand the business models, analytics priorities, data requirements, and technical decisions that drive value for both sides of a data collaboration
  Stakeholder range. The ability to lead technical architecture discussions and executive strategy conversations within the same engagement. You are comfortable building relationships with Product, Data, Marketing, and Privacy leaders at large organizations and aligning stakeholders around a common path forward

• Communication. Excellent writing and verbal skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for commercial audiences, and commercial objectives for technical teams. You enjoy teaching, enabling, and helping others become self-sufficient. You love winning over reticent audiences who have had a project unexpectedly land in their lap. You are known for being one of the first people in your organization to sufficiently understand new concepts, and pair that with the communication skill to make it freshly accessible to others

The approximate annual base salary range is $171,500 to $201,500. This position is also eligible for variable incentive compensation targeted at 33% of base salary, subject to the terms of the applicable incentive compensation plan. Accordingly, the on-target earnings (OTE) range for this role is approximately $228,095 to $267,995, assuming achievement of target performance goals. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the applicant’s experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, geography, performance, and internal equity among our team.

This is a hybrid, 2 days a week in-office position in New York City.

Benefits:

• People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.

• Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.

• Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.

• Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.

More about us:

LiveRampers are empowered to live our values of committing to shared goals and operational excellence. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and to one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global teams across nine countries and four continents. By continually building inclusive, high belonging teams, LiveRampers can deliver exceptional work, champion innovative ideas, and be their best selves. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.

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