About the opportunity

The Customer Insights & Adoption (CIA) team is hiring a senior architect to lead internal technical enablement across Contentful’s product portfolio and recommended ways of building. You will serve as a deeply technical, highly cross-functional subject matter expert who empowers internal teams, customers, and partners to adopt Contentful with confidence and consistency. You’ll apply your industry experience, consultative leadership, and passion for teaching to build scalable programs and toolkits that drive a shared understanding of what good looks like, inform product innovation, and guide business strategy.

What to expect?

• Own and evolve internal technical enablement on Contentful product features, implementation patterns, and best practices for the Customer Experience organization (e.g. Customer Success Management, Professional Services, Learning Services, Customer Support Engineering) and cross-functional teams (e.g. Sales Engineering, Partnerships)
• Serve as a company-wide Contentful subject matter expert by engaging closely with internal teams to develop prescriptive implementation guidance and synthesize it into workshops, enablement materials, tools, examples and other resources
• Establish a strategic, scalable technical enablement practice that supports continuous education, centralized knowledge sharing, and consistent understanding across teams, customers, and solution partners
• Collaborate with Product, Product Marketing and Demo teams throughout the product development lifecycle to evaluate new features, provide actionable feedback, and influence decisions as a trusted advisor
• Coordinate closely with Professional Services to translate customer implementation insights into impactful enablement content; coordinate with Learning Services and Developer Experience to ensure messaging and guidance are aligned across courses, training, and documentation
• Create, curate, and maintain a library of enablement materials including feature usage guidance, prescriptive patterns, use cases, discovery questions, and architectural recommendations
• Develop and deliver internal workshops and technical training that effectively support both technical and non-technical audiences; model excellent virtual facilitation and learner engagement techniques
• Contribute to and help lead strategic enablement initiatives, such as starter kits, maturity models, trial environments, and other cross-team projects that strengthen our internal, customer, and partner ecosystem
• Support Customer Success Managers and Partner Managers as a technical advisor during select customer and partner engagements, providing clarity on architecture, implementation decisions, and best practice adoption

What do you need to be successful?

• 6+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical consulting or a similar technical role, ideally in a digital experience platform environment or solution services agency
• Deep familiarity with content management systems, composable architecture, and modern web development patterns (e.g. headless CMS, API-first)
• Practitioner-level code proficiency, including comfort working with modern web frameworks (e.g. React, Next.js), APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling, with the ability to critically evaluate implementation approaches
• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable guidance for both technical and non-technical audiences, including in writing, workshops, and live facilitation
• Strong track record of building and scaling technical enablement programs, knowledge bases, or enablement practices in a cross-functional environment
• Experience working closely with Customer Success, Professional Services, Sales Engineering, or Partner teams in a customer-facing or internal advisory capacity
• Excellent consultative and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across teams
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize customer and field insights into prescriptive patterns, architectural recommendations, and reusable enablement assets
• Comfortable taking ownership of strategic initiatives from ideation through execution
• Experience designing and delivering engaging virtual training and workshops with strong learner engagement techniques
• Collaborative mindset with a passion for teaching, knowledge sharing, and elevating the technical capability of those around you

What's in it for you?

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
• Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
• Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for your dependents. 
• Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
• We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss,  education days, and volunteer days
• Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family 
• Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
• Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties 
• An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
• A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.

This role will need to be conducted in a state in which we are currently registered to do business. In addition, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work without the need for visa sponsorship by the start date of employment.

This position is eligible for equity awards in accordance with the terms of Contentful’s equity plans.

Maryland Salary Statement: The salary range displayed is specifically for those potential hires who will work or reside in the state of Maryland if selected for the role. Any offered salary is determined based on internal equity, internal salary ranges, market data/ranges, applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications (e.g. JD/technology), for example.

Maryland Salary: $149,000- $201,000

About the Opportunity

We are hiring a Senior Personalization Solution Architect with deep domain expertise in personalization and experimentation to join Contentful’s Professional Services team. This role is designed for a practitioner who has built, operated, and scaled personalization programs in production, and who also brings the hands-on technical skills required to implement those programs in modern, composable architectures.

This is not a generalist Solution Architect role with light exposure to personalization. Success in this role requires strong opinions and real-world experience across audience strategy, decisioning, experimentation, and measurement—paired with the ability to design and deliver high-quality technical implementations using Contentful Personalization.

You will work directly with customer engineering, product, and marketing teams to design and implement advanced personalization and experimentation solutions, while also serving as a customer-facing extension of Contentful’s Product and Engineering teams. Your work will help reduce implementation risk, accelerate time to value, and create tighter feedback loops into product development—specifically for complex personalization use cases.

What to expect? 

Personalization & Experimentation Domain Leadership 

• Own the end-to-end design of personalization and experimentation programs, including:
• audience and segmentation strategies grounded in behavioral, contextual, and first-party data
• experience decisioning models that balance relevance, performance, and governance
• experimentation frameworks (A/B, multivariate, holdouts) with clear hypotheses and success criteria
  
  
• Design personalization strategies that scale responsibly, including:
• guardrails to prevent over-personalization, bias, and degraded user experience
• approaches for global, multi-brand, or multi-region deployments
• tradeoffs between targeting precision, latency, and operational complexity
  
  
• Define measurement approaches that connect:
• user behavior → decisioning logic → exposure → business outcomes
  
  
• Act as a domain authority for personalization and experimentation in customer engagements, confidently guiding technical and non-technical stakeholders through best practices, limitations, and tradeoffs.

Technical Solution Architecture & Hands-On Delivery

• Architect and implement end-to-end personalization solutions using Contentful Personalization, including:
• user identification and profile stitching
• audience evaluation and decisioning
• personalized content and experience delivery
  experimentation and uplift measurement
  
  
• Lead hands-on implementation activities such as:
• building proof-of-concepts and reference implementations
• configuring personalization models and decision logic
• developing integration services and APIs
• supporting production deployments and performance optimization
  
  
• Integrate personalization solutions with enterprise platforms including:
• CDPs (Segment, Tealium, mParticle, etc.)
• CRMs (Salesforce, Dynamics)
• analytics platforms (GA4, Adobe Analytics, Snowplow)
• identity, consent, and privacy tooling
  
  
• Design personalization delivery patterns across modern rendering strategies:
• SSR, CSR, SSG, ISR
• edge and CDN-based personalization
• hybrid static + runtime personalization approaches
  
  
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements for:
• performance and scalability
• reliability and fallback behavior
• security and privacy compliance

Technical Discovery & Customer Enablement

• Lead technical discovery sessions to assess customer readiness across:
• data quality, identity maturity, and event instrumentation
• architectural constraints (latency, caching, edge delivery)
• content model alignment and operational workflows
  
  
• Translate personalization requirements into detailed technical designs, including:
• integration patterns and API contracts
• data and event schemas
• deployment and observability considerations
  
  
• Enable customer teams through:
• implementation workshops and pair-programming
• architecture and code reviews
• developer documentation and operational runbooks

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Feedback Loops

• Partner closely with Contentful Product and Engineering teams to:
• surface implementation challenges and recurring customer pain points
• provide feedback that influences roadmap, developer experience, and documentation
• validate new personalization capabilities against real customer use cases
  
  
• Contribute to internal enablement by:
• mentoring Solution Architects and delivery team members
• developing reusable accelerators, patterns, and reference architectures
• supporting Sales and Solution Engineering with technical expertise in complex personalization opportunities

What you need to be successful?

Required: Personalization & Experimentation Domain Expertise

• Demonstrated, hands-on experience designing and operating personalization and experimentation programs in production, including:
• ownership of audience strategy and decisioning logic
• designing and running A/B or multivariate experiments beyond basic UI testing
• interpreting experiment results and translating them into iterative improvements
  
  
• Strong understanding of personalization challenges such as:
• identity resolution and anonymous vs known users
• data sparsity and cold-start scenarios
• experimentation validity, bias, and statistical tradeoffs
• privacy, consent, and regulatory constraints

Required: Technical & Architectural Skills

• Advanced proficiency with modern web technologies:
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • React with Next.js (preferred), or Vue/Nuxt, Angular
  • REST and GraphQL APIs
    
    
• Deep understanding of web rendering and delivery patterns:
  • SSR, CSR, SSG, ISR
  • caching strategies and personalization at scale
• Strong experience integrating SaaS platforms and enterprise systems via APIs
• Experience designing or implementing cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including:
  • serverless or microservices-based systems
  • event-driven or streaming architectures

Professional Services & Collaboration Skills

• Experience delivering customer-facing technical engagements in a consulting or professional services context
• Comfortable leading technical deep dives with engineering teams and explaining experimentation concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong written communication skills, especially technical documentation

Nice to Have

• Experience with CDPs, tag management systems, and event pipelines
• Familiarity with ML-driven personalization approaches (e.g., propensity models, recommenders), even if models are externally managed
• Experience working in composable DXP ecosystems (CMS, personalization, experimentation, commerce)

What Success Looks Like

• Customers successfully deploy production-grade personalization and experimentation programs using Contentful Personalization.
• Personalization solutions you design are:
• measurable and outcome-driven
• performant at enterprise scale
• governed and extensible over time
• Customer engineering teams trust your guidance because you bring deep personalization domain expertise backed by hands-on implementation experience.
• Product and Engineering teams benefit from clear, actionable feedback rooted in real customer implementations.
• Contentful is consistently seen as a credible personalization partner, not just a technology vendor.

What's in it for you?

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
• Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
• Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees  and 85% of costs for your dependents. 
• Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
• We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss,  education days, and volunteer days
• Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family 
• Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
• Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties 
• An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
• A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.

This role will need to be conducted in a state in which we are currently registered to do business. In addition, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work without the need for visa sponsorship by the start date of employment.

This position is eligible for equity awards in accordance with the terms of Contentful’s equity plans.