Alliance Solutions Architect

Job Description: Merkle 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. This 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. What You’ll Do Partner with Salesforce stakeholders and Merkle growth teams to develop and execute joint go-to-market strategies, solution positioning, and growth initiatives. Lead executive-level client and prospect conversations focused on customer experience transformation, AI, automation, loyalty, CRM modernization, and cross-cloud solutioning. Serve as a trusted advisor during early-stage sales cycles, helping shape opportunities from discovery and qualification through proposal development and client presentations. Build and maintain strategic…