Salesforce Marketing Cloud Architect

**Salesforce Marketing Cloud Architect**

**Company Description**

Material is a modern marketing services firm powered by sophisticated analytics, deep
human understanding and a specialized type of creativity, design thinking. Headquartered
in LA, the company has grown consistently for nearly 50 years to 1200+ employees in 20
offices including NY, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, and London. Material has actively
acquired a portfolio of businesses to build a unique, integrated marketing services business
with key capabilities in analytics, intelligence and experience for an array of top tier clients in
entertainment, tech, retail, healthcare, and packaged goods.

We believe people are people, not data points. Diverse and inclusive problem-solving. Data
and creative are complementary and equally essential. Breaking down silos improves
efficiency and creativity. Combining people, insights, and ideas uncovers hidden truths.
Putting humans at the center of everything we do creates opportunities to improve lives.

Material is a global strategy, insights, design, and technology partner to companies striving for true customer centricity and ongoing relevance in a digital first, customer-led world. By leveraging proprietary, science-based tools that enable human understanding, we inform and create customer-centric business models and experiences + deploy measurement systems - to build transformational relationships between businesses and the people they serve.

**Responsibilities:

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- Manage senior business stakeholders.
- Act as the primary point of contact for all Salesforce, Marketing Automation, and CRM initiatives
- Lead workshops gather requirements, and design solutions
- Strong Communication and Analytical Skills with exposure working with Global and India based customers.
- Manage the implementation and delivery of new initiatives
- Hands-on configuration.
- Strong exposure on multiple Salesforce products including Marketing, Sales, Service, Experience, Pardot, Platform and good overall understanding of the ecosystem.
- Design, build and deliver salesforce technical design/architecture in line with client requirements;
- Own architecture and design of complex solution components (Integration, Security, Custom development);
- Demonstrate technical development skills (scope technical portion of a project and estimate resource requirements);
- Work closely with stakeholders within client organization;
- Work closely with and support the Sales community.
- Stay abreast of new Salesforce releases and functionality, making suggestions to improve existing processes and implement new solutions
- Manage and mentor junior team members

**Required Skills and Experience:

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- Experience working across the full Salesforce project lifecycle from analysis, design, testing to implementation.
- You’ll have 8+ years experience of working on deployment teams throughout the project lifecycle, ideally using Agile development techniques.
- At least 3 Salesforce certifications at consultant level or Architect level. Architect Certifications (Application/System Architect) Desirable.
- You’ll have a proven track record of successful delivery on customer projects, preferably enterprise CRM implementations
- Experience with Marketing Automation / Marketing Tools i.e. Marketo or Eloqua
- Previous team leadership/management experience is desirable
- Product discovery and ideation experience
- Conducted focus group sessions/ cross-functional workshops, etc for requirement gathering
- Knowledge of data and content migration, automated testing, release management, source control tools;
- In-depth understanding of Salesforce programming including Visualforce, Apex, and API’s;
- Demonstrated ability to drive a product vision, manage a roadmap, and influence without direct authority
- You’ll be a self-starter, adept at picking up new skills and technologies, and eager to break new ground
- You’ll have the vision to help us take our company to the next level
- Track record of successfully delivering projects on time, to scope, with high quality.
- Independently driven, resourceful, and able to deliver results with light-touch direction.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with developers, business owners, and senior business leaders.
- Excellent user experience intuition.
- Strong analytical skills.