Manager, Customer Solutions Architect (dublin)

dbt Labs dbt Labs · Data AI · Dublin, Ireland · Solutions Architecture

Manager for Customer Solutions Architects at dbt Labs, a data transformation platform company. This role focuses on leading and scaling the EMEA CSA team, ensuring customers maximize value from the dbt platform, driving customer retention and expansion, and collaborating with various internal teams. The role involves managing escalations, improving processes, and building a high-performance team culture. While the company leverages AI and its platform supports AI use cases, the core function of this role is customer success and team management within a data platform context, not direct AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and manage the regional Customer Solutions Architects, which is currently 5 members
  2. Collaborate with the Global Head of Customer Solutions Architects to drive and execute a global strategy for CSA operations, ensuring a metrics-driven and solution-oriented approach
  3. Build and scale the team thoughtfully: own recruiting, ramping, and retaining top CSA talent in partnership with the Talent team
  4. Foster effective communication and collaboration between cross-functional teams, including Support, Product/Engineering, Sales, and Account Management teams
  5. Ensure proactive and high-quality ticket and incident management, addressing critical customer escalations and managing stakeholder expectations

Skills

Required

  • 4 to 6 years of technical leadership experience, ideally in a SaaS or Data Analytics environment
  • Experience leading technical teams focused on the customer journey, such as Technical Account Management, Customer Support Engineering, or Solutions Architecture or experience leading CSM teams in a technical environment
  • Proven track record in scaling and operationalizing technical customer success or technical account management
  • Direct experience with recruitment, interviewing, and decision-making in the hiring process
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams
  • Enthusiasm for working directly with customers and building world-class post sales teams
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a solution-oriented mindset and experience handling conflict with professionalism and grace

Nice to have

  • A proven track record of building and leading Technical Support or Field Engineering teams in SaaS, infrastructure, or platform businesses.
  • Experience developing and promoting best practices for customer post sales journeys.
  • Have experience with ancillary tools, managing data infrastructure, APIs, etc