Senior Solution Architect

Position Title: Senior Solution Architect

Location: Virtual, United States

Employment Type: Full-Time

Onsite, Remote/Flexible, or Hybrid: Remote

Department: Sales

Hiring Manager: VP Solution Consulting

Travel: Up to 50%

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, 401(K), life insurance, parental leave, and mental health resources all beginning on first day of employment. See Benefits section below for more details.

COMPANY SUMMARY:

Here at Aprimo, our mission is to empower the marketing organizations of today to build the brands of tomorrow. Aprimo is a pioneer of the marketing resource and digital asset management space, and we deliver an innovative, industry-leading SaaS solution that changes the way companies like AT&T, National Park Foundation, Laborie, and Bank of America work, create, collaborate, and learn in order to deliver exceptional brand experiences at scale.

Aprimo helps enterprises unleash the power of their content by providing a marketing automation software and digital asset management software that manages the behind-the-scenes activities involved in marketing. Our product allows companies to manage content planning, creation and distribution all in one place, store content and media in a shared repository, and receive in-depth insights into how content performs.

Founded in 1998, Aprimo has five offices internationally, including Chicago headquarters, and offers a flexible work-from-home/remote-work policy.

Named a Leader in Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Marketing Resource Management by Forrester and winner of the 2021 Tech Cares Award for our work with Aprimo HELPS, we build on the power of our people to make an impact both in our industry and in our communities.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Aprimo is currently seeking a dynamic, energetic presenter to join our Presales/Solution Consulting team to help drive sales of the Aprimo platform, tools, and services. Having worked in a similar role in the digital asset management or marketing operations space, the ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate a penchant for problem-solving, communicating, and product evangelism to help drive results in this growing space.

Successful candidates will be responsible for contributing to Aprimo's sales efforts. As a key member of the account team, this role provides subject matter expertise at the right point in the sales cycle, helps to drive quality sales discovery, delivers sales presentations and product demonstrations, and serves as a trusted resource to the sales organization and prospect organizations.

This role will help formulate decisions on marketing technology sales opportunities as well as be responsible for coordinating staff from other departments to assist with advancing sales opportunities in conjunction with the Aprimo sales and alliances organizations.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
•  Pre-sales support and advocacy around the Aprimo Digital Asset Management,
•  Aprimo Marketing Operations, and Aprimo Planning set of capabilities for mid-market and large enterprises
•  Communicating with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure sales success
•  Serve as a Subject Matter & Technical Expert
•  Provide customer-centric product demonstrations, chalk talks, and general sales support in interactions with prospective customers
•  Becoming and staying informed on vertical markets and technical matters with our customers and prospects
•  Effectively demonstrating and communicating the capabilities and value of our solutions
•  Providing feedback and knowledge gained from customers and prospects to Product Engineering
•  Work with the Solution Consultants to engage and influence prospects, converting them into customers
•  Maintain deep technical knowledge as it relates to the Marketing applications and lead the management and enhancements of our demonstration assets including our products and specified connectors.
•  Be an active participant in responding to RFPs
•  Additional responsibilities and duties as required CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS & WHY YOU'RE A GREAT FIT FOR THE ROLE:
•  Strong, demonstrable understanding of content, marketing planning, workflow management, marketing asset management, and marketing spend management.
•  Background in development within the digital marketing space including an understanding of composable solutions.
•  5+ years of progressive experience in or supporting sales organizations (pre-sales or product management)
•  Demonstrated ability to present in front of all types of audiences (public forums, c-level leaders, etc.)
•  Ability to build relationships to successfully collaborate both internally with colleagues and with partners.
•  Highly motivated and self-directed with the ability to work well both independently and as a proactive team member
•  Experience in working with and leading distributed teams APRIMO CULTURE & WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE:
•  Aprimo offers a forward-thinking, progressive and employee-first culture that is based in both collaboration and flexibility with team members who are friendly, intelligent and enthusiastic people that are committed to the product and mission here at Aprimo.
•  With 5 offices worldwide and teams spread throughout the US, EMEA and Philippines, our multicultural teams work cross-departmentally and across continents and cultures towards a shared goal.
•  We offer a diverse environment that promotes DEI efforts, values multiple perspectives and fresh thinking and which includes Aprimo HELPS, an employee resource group (ERG) that is dedicated to giving back to our local communities
•  Through its relaxed environment, Aprimo embodies a more casual "Silicon Valley" atmosphere.
•  We have a casual dress code that allows employees to express themselves as individuals and which fosters a creative and free-thinking approach to problem solving and business solutions. And it also allows us to wear hoodies and shorts during internal meetings.
•  Unlimited PTO, flexible work schedules and all positions allowing for either entirely remote or hybrid working arrangements create a deeply rewarding work-life balance.
•  Our unlimited PTO encourages employees to take time off to un-plug, rest, and recharge.
•  With flexible work schedules, employees can attend to personal matters, such as stepping away to pick up their children from school or to get a much-needed haircut.
•  In a recent internal survey, 89% of staff cited work-life balance as being one of the most rewarding aspects of working at Aprimo.
•  Part of the key to our success is that team members are not only successful at collaboration and open communication, but that they are also given a great deal of autonomy and freedom in their own individual roles.
•  Our culture is not a micro-managing environment - rather, employees are encouraged to be self-starters, to voice new ideas, and to exercise ownership in their individual roles.
•  As such, individual team members can leave a lasting impact and footprint within the organization - in fact, our average employee tenure is 7.7 years.
•  Aprimo employs a "choose your own adventure" approach to career advancement.
•  Staff members are not siloed into roles and for many of our teams there is no set ladder that one needs to climb to achieve growth and promotion.
•  Rather, we emphasize an organic approach to career development in which employees can and do frequently transition into newly created roles within their own teams or transition into other departments based on their interests in exploring new skills and responsibilities.
•  For additional learning and development, we recently rolled out Udemy, which is an online learning platform that employees have access to and which features over 200,000 courses on a wide variety of business topics.
•  Ranked in AI Metadata & Search by Forrester, Aprimo sits on the cutting-edge of technology and is paving new paths forward by incorporating AI (artificial intelligence) into our product offerings.
•  We offer generative AI in a secure environment built for brand safety and governance. Our AI-powered content operations platform, with industry leading digital asset management (DAM) software at its core, helps to optimize the creative process and improve the user experience with better search, recommendations, categorization and summarization.
•  Our AI empowers marketing teams to automate tasks, analyze data, and personalize content, ensuring scalability without sacrificing productivity.
•  AI automatically identifies asset characteristics and transforms them into words a human would search for. Translation, image alterations, personalization, and more are all streamlined by AI.
•  With our platform, marketers can efficiently produce a larger volume of content, engage customers on a personalized level, curate relevant materials, and make data-driven decisions to drive their content strategies forward.
•  Our AI offers up to 72% increase in discoverability and productivity, up to 61% reduction in production time, and up to 66% faster time to market. APRIMO BENEFITS WE OFFER:
•  Bonus program that pays out quarterly
•  Competitive benefits coverage that begins on the first day of employment, and includes:
•  Medical benefits with low premiums and choice of two programs (PPO or High Deductible)
•  Dental benefits with choice of two programs (PPO or HMO) . click apply for full job details