Senior Vertical Solutions Architect

Your opportunity
Vertical Solutions Architects are the trusted advisors to New Relic prospects and clients, specializing in one or more industry verticals. As part of the Verticals Organization, you will support New Relic customers in designing observability architectures specific to Media and Entertainment. Solutions Architects work collaboratively with New Relic’s customers across segments, Sales, Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing organizations. You will collaborate to work on strategic engagements requiring a high degree of strategic planning, consulting, hands-on technical expertise, and internal New Relic cross-departmental collaboration.

Vertical Solution Architects help shape and execute a strategy to utilize New Relic platform capabilities to deliver measurable, vertical-specific business outcomes. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology sales or consulting. Candidates should also have a demonstrated skill to think strategically about business, products, and technical problems.

You will specialize in leading observability land-and-expand opportunities at Media customers by providing thought leadership for solution design, implementation of best practices, and technical troubleshooting. As the expert overlay on Media accounts, you will help inform New Relic’s go-to-market strategy in Media and Entertainment, including identifying product priorities and working to develop the sales strategy.

If you’re passionate about helping Media customers solve business problems with observability and ultimately be a trusted advisor then solution architect this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

What you'll do

• In partnership with sales and product teams, lead Media technical evaluations via New Relic POC/POV ownership
• Create and maintain relationships with key customer contacts that contribute to large Net ACR deals and platform consumption
• Engage with customers, both onsite and remote, in a technical consultancy and advisor role during different phases of sales cycles while providing technical assistance and solution guidance
• Understand and document the current and desired state of the customer’s observability state and design solutions to address the identified gaps
• Map desired customer business outcomes to the required observability capabilities
• Build the brand, trust, and credibility in the observability space by developing artifacts such as reference architectures, technical blogs, conference presentations, a repository of field resources
• Keep up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies and act as the vertical expert and advisor to Sales, Product, and Marketing.
• Continuously improve your professional skills with a focus on personal mastery and team learning through activities such as training, reading, and seeking mentorship from others
  
  
  

This role requires

• BS in CS (or equivalent)
• Experience developing with at least one programming language such as Java, Python, or Golang
• 4+ years of customer facing technical sales or consulting experience
• Hands-on experience and working understanding of video technologies and media architectures (OTT, Broadcast, etc)
• Background in mobile device platforms & architectures (IOS & Android)
• 4+ years of hands-on observability experience with either New Relic, Splunk, AppDynamics, DataDog, Dynatrace, Grafana Labs, or other observability platforms
• Understanding of Service Level measurement approaches
• Technical, Executive presentation, and communication skills
• Ability to analyze & interpret business requirements and customer interactions to anticipate and guide client needs
• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of customer organization from executive to developer/practitioner levels
  
  
  

Bonus points if you have

• MS in CS (or equivalent).
• Experience with either Conviva, Youbora, Mux, or other video analytics platforms
• Experience with AWS Elemental or other media processing platforms
  
  
  

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.

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We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Estimated On-Target Earnings Range: $ 219000 - $ 273000

The pay range above represents a reasonable estimate of the on target earnings (salary plus target sales incentives) for the listed position. This role is eligible for a commission plan (as defined in the sales incentive plan document). Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, flex time-off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.