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Zendesk

Principal Customer Architect

Zendesk

. Lead technical adoption roadmaps for strategic enterprise customers .

Posted 11/6/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $210,000 - $320,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading technical adoption and transformation initiatives for enterprise customers, with a strong focus on AI automation, SaaS configuration, and stakeholder alignment. Capable of guiding complex technical discovery processes and delivering clear, actionable insights to diverse audiences.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Technical Adoption LeadershipAI Automation ExpertiseSaaS Configuration ProficiencyCross-Functional Team CoordinationStakeholder Influence

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Hard Skills
Technical DiscoveryIntegration AssessmentData Flow AnalysisSolution ScopingAI Tool UtilizationPlaybook DevelopmentMaturity AssessmentProduct DemonstrationSandbox ConfigurationROI Logic
Soft Skills
Proactive Problem SolvingTrust BuildingInfluence and LeadershipClear CommunicationCalmness Under Ambiguity
Tools & Technologies
ZendeskAI PlatformsCX PlatformsWorkflow Automation ToolsService Operations Software
Industry Keywords
Technical TransformationEnterprise ArchitectureCustomer ExperienceRegulated EnvironmentsComplex Architectures

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead technical adoption roadmaps for strategic enterprise customers
  • Build account technology plans covering architecture, Zendesk usage, technical debt, customer priorities, and adoption opportunities
  • Diagnose barriers across configuration, data, integrations, processes, operating models, and stakeholder alignment
  • Guide customers through AI and platform adoption using repeatable playbooks, standard configurations, and practical enablement
  • Lead technical discovery, whiteboarding, product demonstrations, and standard sandbox configurations
  • Scope productized pilots and proofs of concept with success criteria, ROI logic, and a path to production adoption
  • Coordinate AI Experts, Professional Services, FDEs, Architects, and other specialists around shared customer outcomes
  • Share technical evidence supporting adoption, value realization, and expansion readiness while tracking progress through approved systems

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Typically 12+ years of experience in complex customer-facing technical transformation, architecture, AI automation, advisory, or a related field—or an equivalent record of impact
  • Experience owning technical adoption or transformation outcomes with enterprise customers
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical discovery, assess integrations or data flows, and recommend practical solutions
  • Track record of influencing senior stakeholders and coordinating cross-functional teams through complex change
  • Strong technical judgment across SaaS configuration, integrations, APIs, data flows, and AI automation
  • Ability to lead structured discovery and explain complex technical ideas in clear business language, from practitioners to executives
  • Experience using adoption plans, maturity assessments, playbooks, and stakeholder alignment
  • Good solution-scoping judgment
  • Comfort with light demos and standard configuration
  • Proactive, calm approach to ambiguous customer challenges; ability to build trust and lead through influence
  • AI-literate approach, including responsible use of approved AI tools and consideration of data, security, oversight, and measurement
  • Preferred: experience with customer service, CX platforms, AI agents, workflow automation, or service operations
  • Preferred: experience designing productized pilots, technical adoption programs, or repeatable customer playbooks
  • Preferred: familiarity with regulated environments, complex architectures, or advanced AI automation
  • Preferred: experience turning customer adoption patterns into scalable methods and providing structured feedback to Product and Engineering

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Bonus, benefits, or related incentives may be available
  • Hybrid working with flexibility to work remotely for part of the week
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans