Solutions Architect - Team Lead

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT - TEAM LEAD

Kevel is looking for a Team Lead for our Solutions Architect team! We want a seasoned and talented Solutions Architect who is passionate about our customers and making the internet a better place.

Kevel enables our customers to build innovative and relevant advertising and content experiences quickly and easily. The Solutions Architect is a vital member of our Customer Success team that works to delight prospective customers and their integrating engineers. They are effective communicators who can pivot with ease — from discussing technical requirements with a CEO or team of developers, while also being equally able to support non-technical members of our clients teams. They are comfortable sketching out ad request / API workflows on a whiteboard, and delivering a product demo to a crowded room.

Location: Remote - US. This position is 100% remote within the United States. Applicants located on the West Coast in the Bay Area of PST are preferred; however, all applicants located anywhere within the US are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be eligible to work within the United States.

WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:

• Become an expert in Kevel, our APIs, and what they can do.
• Work closely with Kevel's Sales team to develop and deliver technical demonstrations and answer technical questions during the sales process.
• Troubleshoot customer problems while they are building, and keep sales execs and sales leadership up to date on development progress.
• Assist in the completion of customer RFPs and security/infrastructure questionnaires.
• Own and drive relationships with technical audiences of all kinds, from integrating engineers to CTOs, understanding business objectives and explaining solutions.
• Capture feedback for product and engineering, and advocate internally on prospect and customer's behalf.

SKILLS YOU'LL BRING WITH YOU:

• Experience working with REST APIs and a highly technical product.
• High-energy, passion and creativity.
• Previous experience managing and leading teams of 3+ members.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills. You are comfortable speaking in groups, being recorded and speaking with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Research, Test, Ask. A successful solutions architect will always search for a solution, try it, and finally ask for help. An independent problem solver will find the most success.
• Previous coding experience in some form. While you won't need to write any code of your own, you should be able to write JSON and understand basic code.
• Experience working with tools like Postman, Datadog and Papertrail are a plus.
• Previous experience working in adtech is a plus.
• Previous experience working on remote teams is a plus.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING WITH US:

• Fully Remote Team: We are a 100% remote work environment with employees located around the world. You are welcome to work from home, one of our offices, a WeWork office, or an equivalent co-working space.
• Flexible Working Hours: We understand our employees have their own lives, responsibilities and working preferences. We trust our employees to communicate with their managers, and work when they work best.
• Paid Health Benefits: 100% employer paid health benefits for you and your entire family.
• Savings opportunity for the Future: Kevel offers retirement savings plans with employer contributions so employees can save toward future financial objectives.
• Rest and Relaxation: Unlimited personal time off - and we mean it! We trust our employees to take the time they need, whenever they need it. We also offer Paid Holidays + a Kevel Holiday Break (from 12/24 - 1/1 every year!)
• Home Office Stipend: You'll receive a new Windows or Mac machine (your choice) + a $500 home office allowance to purchase what you need to set up your work space properly!
• Parental Leave Support: We support both primary and secondary caregivers with salary continuation and benefits when our employees are growing their families.
• Free press benefits: Kevel believes all employees should have access to legitimate news sources. You'll receive a $300 annual allowance to subscribe to the news source of your choice.
• You'll work with an award winning team! We've won numerous Best Places to Work Awards for several years and counting! We've also won many awards for our Innovation, Business Intelligence, and our best-in-class products (Software of the Year, Cloud Company of the Year, Best Ad Tech and API Innovator).
• Full transparency. We embrace transparency and encourage you to read more about what we value through our Company Constitution and Employee Bill of Rights, our About Kevel page, and Careers Page.

Hiring Guidelines by Country: Kevel hires new team members in countries around the world. The benefits described above are offered to all employees, but the logistics of how these benefits are offered may vary country-to-country. Our Recruitment Team will share the specific benefits that are available in your location, and can help answer any questions about location specific eligibility requirements and benefits after the recruitment process begins.

ABOUT KEVEL

Kevel (previously Adzerk) offers the infrastructure APIs needed to quickly build custom ad platforms for sponsored listings, internal promotions, native ads, and more. We are committed to helping publishers drive new revenue and take back the Internet from ad tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

Kevel was founded in 2010 in Durham, North Carolina. We embrace remote working culture with our entire team being spread across the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal and Singapore! Kevel is proud to be an inclusive workplace with one goal in common — we want to make the internet a better place.

ALL APPLICANTS ARE WELCOME, EXACTLY AS YOU ARE

We're building a global community - one that's safe for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. Our policies and way of working are guided by our core values of inclusivity, trust, empathy, and respect. We know we have more work to do, but firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic selves. Kevel is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts and commitment to creating a diverse, inclusive, and transparent workplace where everyone feels respected, heard, safe and accepted. At Kevel, we embrace our differences and consider diversity a superpower that drives the success of our organization.

We highly encourage people of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply, even if your experiences don't meet every requirement in the job description. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, and people with disabilities.

Individuals seeking employment at Kevel are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.