Lead Solution Architect (Presales)

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About the Role

At Klaviyo our Sales team prides itself on being genuine experts in marketing and productnot just closers. As a Lead Solutions Architect working with our Mid-Market and Enterprise segment youll be at the heart of some of our most strategic deals helping prospects and clients understand exactly how Klaviyo fits intoand elevatestheir technology stack.

Were growing our presence in Italy and this is a unique opportunity to join as a founding member of that effort. Youll work directly with prospects clients and partners to build deep technical relationships design solutions and create the kind of trust that turns evaluations into long-term partnerships. Youll bring a consultant-first mindset a builders instinct and the credibility to operate confidently from developer to C-suite.

How Youll Make a Difference

• Transform workflows by putting AI at the center building smarter systems and ways of working from the ground up.
• Continuously experiment with AI toolstesting learning and sharing insights to keep the team ahead of the curve and championing new applications that accelerate workflows and elevate quality responsibly.
• Apply AI fluency to streamline your work and reinvest saved time into higher-impact technical engagements.
• Lead technical pre-sales campaigns end-to-endfrom discovery through to technical selectionpartnering closely with Account Executives to drive revenue outcomes.
• Run deep technical discovery to understand prospects current architectures business challenges and the opportunities Klaviyo can unlock for them.
• Organise and facilitate technical workshops that bring together developers and business stakeholders to align solutions with real outcomes.
• Develop and execute value demonstration plans that clearly differentiate Klaviyo against the competition and accelerate technical wins.
• Become the authoritative internal expert on the Klaviyo platformdata pipelines integration codebases and the trade-offs between implementation approaches.
• Prototype and build integration specifications custom solutions and reusable assets that advance both individual deals and the broader pre-sales practice.
• Serve as the voice of the customer by feeding technical insights and client needs back to Product and Developer Experience teams to influence the roadmap.
• Raise the capability of the wider team by training Sales colleagues and sharing technical knowledge that creates a consistently excellent Klaviyo experience in market.

Who You Are

• Youve already experimented with AI in work or personal projects and youre excited to dive in and learn fast. Youre hungry to responsibly explore new AI tools and workflows finding ways to make your work smarter and more efficient.
• You use AI tools to accelerate exploration shorten iteration cycles and bring sharper ideas to the tableyou dont wait to be told what to try.
• Youre based in Milan and available to be in-office three days per week.
• Youre fluent in both Italian and Englishable to lead technical workshops build relationships and navigate complex deals with confidence in either language.
• You bring 7 years of experience as a Solutions Architect Solutions Engineer or in a role architecting software products at scale.
• You have 5 years working hands-on with web development languages (JavaScript React) REST APIs and/or general-purpose languages such as Python.
• You have strong working knowledge across several of the following: marketing automation CDPs ecommerce platforms mobile applications analytics adtech or data scienceand a proven ability to learn new domains quickly.
• Youre a credible technical communicatorable to articulate value and build trust with audiences ranging from developers to directors and to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• You have a salespersons instinctdriven by customer outcomes skilled at uncovering problems and experienced closing technical deals in partnership with Account Executives.
• Youre familiar with structured sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC and apply them naturally to qualify and advance complex opportunities.
• You stay ahead of the curvetracking the evolving technical landscape and integrating modern optimised solutions that bring genuine value to clients.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building or contributing to integration frameworks partner ecosystems or developer tooling.
• Prior experience in the Italian market or with Italian ecommerce and retail brands.
• Familiarity with Klaviyo or comparable B2C CRM and marketing automation platforms.

Why This Role Matters

Italy is a significant growth market for Klaviyo and the Lead Solutions Architect in Milan will be instrumental in establishing our technical credibility there. You wont just be supporting dealsyoull be helping define how Klaviyo shows up for some of Italys most ambitious brands. If you want to build something meaningful at the intersection of engineering sales and customer success this is your opportunity.

Klaviyo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Were committed to building a company that reflects the diversity of the customers we serveand that starts with our team.

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