{"id":2098136,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dentsu-alliance-solutions-architect","title":"Alliance Solutions Architect","company":{"id":888,"name":"dentsu","domain":"dentsu.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dentsu-polska","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":81,"open_postings":175,"ghost_share":0.006,"stale_share":0.697,"repost_share":0.051,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"}},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":163000,"max":245000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":245000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentforce","optional":false},{"name":"Apex","optional":true},{"name":"MuleSoft","optional":true},{"name":"Salesforce Data Cloud","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-08T17:30:16Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-21T17:08:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":13,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":13},"description":"Job Description:\nMerkle is seeking a VP, Alliance Solutions Architect with deep MarTech expertise, particularly within the Salesforce ecosystem, to help shape, sell, and scale innovative customer experience solutions across our client portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of technology, strategy, and go-to-market execution, partnering closely with Salesforce and internal stakeholders to develop differentiated solution narratives, influence account growth, and create offerings that drive measurable business outcomes.\nThis is a highly visible individual contributor role focused on pre-sales strategy, solution development, alliance engagement, and thought leadership reporting into the Head of Alliance Solution Leads. The ideal candidate combines strong Salesforce platform knowledge with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into compelling business value for clients, prospects, partners, and internal teams.\nWhat You’ll Do\nPartner with Salesforce stakeholders and Merkle growth teams to develop and execute joint go-to-market strategies, solution positioning, and growth initiatives.\nLead executive-level client and prospect conversations focused on customer experience transformation, AI, automation, loyalty, CRM modernization, and cross-cloud solutioning.\nServe as a trusted advisor during early-stage sales cycles, helping shape opportunities from discovery and qualification through proposal development and client presentations.\nBuild and maintain strategic relationships across Salesforce, internal Merkle capability teams, and key client stakeholders.\nDevelop solution narratives, offerings, accelerators, industry positioning, and thought leadership that demonstrate the value of Salesforce-powered customer experiences.\nCreate and deliver compelling demonstrations, solution walkthroughs, and presentations that connect technology capabilities to measurable business outcomes.\nCollaborate with data, experience, technology, and industry teams to architect integrated customer experience solutions.\nContribute to Salesforce alliance growth goals through pipeline influence, account expansion, and strategic opportunity development\nHelp position Merkle as a leading AI and Salesforce partner through marketplace engagement, executive relationship building, enablement initiatives, and joint marketing activities.\nDrive innovation around emerging Salesforce capabilities including Agentforce, AI-powered experiences, automation, Data Cloud, and connected customer ecosystems.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn this role, you will:\nInfluence growth within existing client relationships and support expansion into net-new client opportunities.\nBuild stronger Salesforce alliance relationships and elevate Merkle’s visibility within the partner ecosystem.\nDevelop scalable solution narratives and offerings that support client acquisition and account growth.\nHelp clients connect technology investments to measurable business outcomes, customer experience improvements, and operational efficiencies.\nAccelerate adoption of modern Salesforce capabilities across strategic industries including Retail, CPG, Healthcare, Entertainment, and other growth sectors.\nAct as a trusted technical leader who guides strategic opportunities without owning delivery execution.\nRequired Qualifications\n15+ years of experience in solution architecture, consulting, alliance management, pre-sales engineering, digital transformation, or client-facing technology leadership roles.\nStrong expertise within the Salesforce ecosystem, including Salesforce Core and broader customer experience capabilities.\nExperience with AI, Agentic business transformation and business process automation\nExperience building and executing joint go-to-market motions with Salesforce or another major enterprise technology platform provider.\nDemonstrated ability to engage executive stakeholders while maintaining credibility with technical and delivery teams.\nExperience translating business objectives into technology solutions and measurable outcomes.\nAbility to design, configure, and demonstrate Salesforce-based solutions in client-facing settings.\nProven success supporting new business development, account growth, strategic pursuits, or complex client initiatives.\nStrong communication, storytelling, and presentation skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.\nPreferred Qualifications\nSalesforce certifications and hands-on platform experience.\nExperience with Salesforce Data Cloud, Agentforce, AI Cloud, Loyalty Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, and related technologies.\nFamiliarity with MuleSoft, middleware platforms, APIs, integrations, and enterprise architecture concepts.\nExperience within a consulting, agency, systems integrator, or enterprise technology organization.\nUnderstanding of customer data, personalization, journey orchestration, loyalty, CRM, and customer engagement platforms.\nExposure to complementary customer experience ecosystems such as Adobe, Microsoft, or related enterprise technology platforms.\nSkills & Competencies\nThe ideal candidate is:\nA technical strategist with broad customer experience and marketing technology knowledge.\nComfortable discussing Salesforce architecture, AI, automation, and digital transformation trends.\nEqually capable of speaking with business executives and technical practitioners.\nSkilled at connecting technical decisions to customer, operational, and financial outcomes.\nAn engaging presenter with strong executive presence and communication skills.\nCollaborative, influential, and effective in highly matrixed environments.\nCurious about emerging technologies and passionate about helping clients modernize customer experiences.\nAt dentsu, we believe great work happens when we're connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.\nThe annual base salary range for this position is $163,000 - $245,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. Additionally, this position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation.\nBenefits available with this position include:\nMedical, vision, and dental insurance\nLife insurance\nShort-term and long-term disability insurance\n401k\nFlexible paid time off\nAt least 15 paid holidays per year\nPaid sick and safe leave\nPaid parental leave.\nDentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.\nTo begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.\nLocation:\nUSA - Remote - MarylandBrand:\nMerkleTime Type:\nFull timeContract Type:\nPermanentDentsuis committed to providingequal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. We do this without regard to race, color, national origin, sex ,sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religious practices and observances, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.\nDentsuis committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a career opportunity with us, please send an e-mail to  by clicking on the link to let us knowthe nature of your accommodation request and your contact information. We are here to support you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8633,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Dental insurance","Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Advertising","Creative Agencies","E-commerce Marketing","Digital Marketing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T17:30:16Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 13","filings_12m":13,"filings_prev_12m":11,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":97500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":54,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.596,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":12,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":245000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dentsu-alliance-solutions-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dentsu-alliance-solutions-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T18:02:14Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":25394,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":888},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=888"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdentsu-alliance-solutions-architect"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdentsu-alliance-solutions-architect"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdentsu-alliance-solutions-architect"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dentsu-alliance-solutions-architect\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdentsu-alliance-solutions-architect"}]}