Deployment Architect - Email & SMS / Messaging

Deployment Architect - Email & SMS / Messaging

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

• The salary range for this position is $140,000-$180,000 USD per year, which is location-independent in accordance with our remote-first policy. We also offer meaningful equity compensation

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• Hightouch participates in E-Verify. After you join the team, we'll verify your eligibility to work in the U.S. by submitting information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security. This process happens post-hire only — we never use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.

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