Success Architect / Senior Success Architect

Salesforce; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Success Architect to join its Cloud Success team in the United States. This role focuses on delivering proactive guidance, architecture health checks, and impactful adoption strategies for a portfolio of customers.

You will collaborate with support engineers, product advisors, and architects to triage issues, design scalable solutions, and drive long-term customer health and growth within Salesforce technology.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of hands-on technical experience in customer success, engineering, or senior admin roles.
• Strong working knowledge of Salesforce products, platform capabilities, governance, and best practices.
• Experience with complex implementations and integration principles.
• Familiarity with data management, AI, analytics, and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive customer impact by assessing implementations and advising on feature adoption and foundational design.
• Lead with expertise and provide reactive and proactive guidance on product best practices.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
• Triaging capability gaps and escalating architectural challenges to senior team members.
• Execute playbooks to meet customer needs and build strong relationships across teams.

Skills

Sales Cloud Expertise

Communication & Leadership

English Proficiency

Solution Design & Architecture

Tools

Salesforce Platform

Job description

Job Category

Customer Success

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.

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Role Description

Cloud Success is a specialized team within Customer Success, bringing together customer support engineers, proactive monitoring, specialist product advisors and technical architects. This team not only resolves technical issues but also provides expert guidance on optimizing and leveraging Salesforce technology to drive long-term business success.

Success Architects play a flexible and pivotal role in supporting a wide range of customers. They act as the customer's first point of contact for a mix of reactive and proactive needs. This includes providing frontline technical support (Support), delivering educational 'Guide' sessions to drive feature adoption, and assisting with foundational architectural health checks (basic Architect). They collaborate closely with senior Success Architects and Support Engineers to triage complex issues and ensure customers are on a path to long-term health, bridging the gap between daily challenges and long-term success.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Customer Impact - Partner with a portfolio of customers, assessing their implementations and delivering recommendations on common technical issues, feature adoption (Guide), and foundational solution design (basic Architect).
• Lead with Expertise - Serve as a trusted technical generalist , providing reactive and proactive guidance on product best practices.
• Communicate with Clarity - Simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, from technical teams to customer stakeholders and managers , positioning yourself as a trusted advisor.
• Innovate & Solve Problems - Triage capability gaps and design inefficiencies, resolving common issues directly and escalating complex architectural challenges to senior Success Architects.
• Execute Proven Strategies - Leverage and execute playbooks from Support, Guides, and the Architect team to meet customer needs.
• Build Strong Relationships - Collaborate with internal and external partners, fostering connections that drive customer success, product improvement and overall business growth.

Basic Requirements

Solution Design & Architecture

• 3-5+ years of hands-on technical experience (e.g., Senior Support Engineer, Technical Consultant, or Senior Salesforce Admin ).
• Strong working knowledge of Salesforce products, platform capabilities, technical governance and best practices.
• Experience participating in complex implementations and understanding integration principles.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise application integration, covering process orchestration, master data management, AI, analytics and security best practices.
• Familiarity with industry- or vertical-specific solutions (preferred).

Communication & Leadership

• Ability to assess business objectives, propose solution options and drive stakeholder alignment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both business and technical audiences.
• Skilled in creating clear, visually compelling design documents for diverse stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage customer-facing discussions and explain technical concepts clearly.
• High proficiency in English.

Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving

• Ability to identify design inefficiencies, recommend optimizations and drive customer transformation.
• Provide data-driven insights on customer success stories and industry trends.
• Passion for continuous learning and staying ahead of emerging technologies.

Desired Technical Skills

Sales Cloud Expertise

• Strong functional and configuration knowledge of Sales Cloud features, including opportunity/pipeline management, forecasting, email integration and advanced capabilities such as Einstein Conversation Insights, Sales Engagement and Sales Performance Management.
• Ability to configure and optimize these features to meet business needs.

Data Management & Integration

• Proficient in understanding and troubleshooting data models, relationships (lookup/master-detail), validation rules and data governance best practices.
• Experience with data import/export strategies, deduplication, ETL tools, and integ