Solutions Architect

Gridspace is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect to provide white-glove service and technical support to our largest and most strategic enterprise customers. You will support a number of designated customers assigned to you by overseeing their overall support experience and collaborating closely with customer stakeholders, Gridspace’s Product and Engineering teams.

As a solutions architect you will be the customer’s source of truth for everything Gridspace. Your deep understanding of the Gridspace platform and core technologies will ensure the customer is getting the best experience. The solutions architect is a uniquely qualified technical advisor who is supporting the customer’s journey through proactive and prescriptive guidance to ensure value realization of their investment. Whether it’s a review of your technical architecture, a plan to address the customer’s changing needs, or providing feedback on Gridspace itself - as a solutions architect will know the answer, or will engage the right people who do.

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background with at least 5+ years of hands-on experience in a similar technical environment and account management roles. You understand the day-to-day aspects of customer support including overseeing tickets, building knowledge base articles, and providing product feedback to Engineering and Design teams. The role reports to the founders.

In this role, you will:

• Primary Point of Contact: Serve as the primary technical contact within Gridspace by managing and owning the end-to-end customer’s support experience, including the coordination of all of their inbound inquiries with high touch, white glove service.

• Technical Consultation: Be the trusted advisor for the customer by leveraging your deep knowledge of the product and the customer’s business operations to provide technical insights and tailored solutions to meet their needs.

• Management of Support Experience: Direct availability to internal and external stakeholders, conduct support ticket reviews for potential trends, ensure deeper focus on customer tickets, and drive resolution on identified issues.

• Customer Partnerships: Develop and maintain a deep partnership with the customer and their company’s key stakeholders by gaining strong business acumen, understanding the organizational structure, and their operations.

• Product Knowledge: Become an expert on Gridspace's portfolio of speech analysis and automation products.

• System Expertise: Has deep technical understanding of the customer’s entire system, custom configurations, and unique product implementation throughout their lifecycle with Gridspace.

• Proactive Support: Identify product and/or process trends to prevent potential issues related to the customer’s system setup and configurations by proactively monitoring their environment.

• Critical Issue Prevention & Risk Mitigation: Partner with internal teams to resolve business critical issues and mitigate legal risks to the customer by offering strategic advice, process workarounds and new features adoption.

• Analysis and Reporting: Provide weekly executive summary on ticket analysis and generate customer reports to identify and surface top trends.

• Technical Troubleshooting: Use your technical knowledge and product expertise to troubleshoot and resolve customer issues with high complexity.

• Responsiveness & Resolution: Respond to customers and resolve their inquiries in a timely and helpful manner with a primary focus on meeting our SLA goals.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely to develop partnerships with our Engineering and Design teams in order to reproduce bugs and build testbeds as necessary.

• Feedback Loop: Provide direct feedback to engineering management for product and process improvements to help enhance the customer experience.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Minimum B.S. in engineering, sciences, economics, math, statistics, or data science.

• Strong background in software integrations, modern web application and API development

• Experience in troubleshooting API's and various types of integrations is necessary

• Strong familiarity with using CRMs like Zendesk or Salesforce

• Experience with machine learning-based products and voice technology is a huge plus

An ideal candidate also has:

• Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, JavaScript, React

• Previous experience in a similar role involving dynamic engineering management

• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills coupled with the ability to influence individual contributors and leaders across the company

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong bias for action, ability to dive deep, and insistence on the highest standards

• Ability to work in a hyper growth environment with shifting priorities