Deployment Architect - Email & SMS​/Messaging

Position: Deployment Architect - Email & SMS / Messaging
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Job Description Headquarters:
Remote (North America)      About Hightouch  Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.  Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible.  

Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant TM for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, , Ramp, and Pet Smart.  At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses. The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient — and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success.

If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you.

What You’ll Do    Own the end-to-end deployment and migration for enterprise Email/SMS customers, from technical discovery through successful production launch  Lead technical discovery and implementation workshops, translating customer requirements into scalable messaging architecture across integrations, data flows, APIs, account structure, and channel configuration  Assess customers’ existing ESP and messaging infrastructure and develop migration plans that manage dependencies, mitigate risk, and accelerate time-to-value  Drive implementation across technical and business stakeholders, including configuration, integration, testing, validation, cutover, and launch readiness  Lead SMS provisioning and implementation, including sender setup and registration, consent and preference flows, and identification of carrier, regulatory, and provisioning dependencies  Partner with Deliverability Specialists on sender authentication, domain and IP strategy, warm-up, reputation, and overall deliverability readiness  Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, proactively identifying architectural decisions, risks, and blockers throughout the deployment  Partner with Product and Engineering to resolve implementation blockers and bring customer feedback and product gaps back into the organization  Build repeatable frameworks, documentation, tooling, and best practices that make enterprise deployments more efficient and scalable    What We’re Looking For    5–10 years of experience in technical implementation, solutions architecture, professional services, or a similar customer-facing technical role  Experience implementing or migrating enterprise email, SMS, marketing automation, or customer engagement platforms  Strong technical foundation across APIs, webhooks, data integrations, authentication, and enterprise architecture  Strong understanding of messaging architecture, including sending domains and IPs, subscriber data, consent and preference management, and transactional vs.

marketing messaging  

Experience with SMS provisioning and implementation, including 10

DLC, toll-free or short code registration, consent management, and carrier requirements  Proven ability to lead complex enterprise implementations across multiple technical teams, business stakeholders, and dependencies  Strong technical project management, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to drive multiple implementations and guide technical decision-making  Experience developing implementation processes and frameworks…