Senior Manager, Solutions Architect

Vercel Vercel · Enterprise · Australia · Remote · Solution Engineering

Senior Manager of Solutions Architecture to lead the APAC SA team, supporting sales teams in pre and post-sales, driving technical excellence, mentoring, and partnering with sales leadership to win new business and expand accounts. The role involves leading, developing, and managing the team, ensuring technical excellence, providing hands-on support for key accounts, overseeing SA engagement on strategic accounts, partnering with engineering for product feedback, developing repeatable plays, tracking performance, and owning org planning, staffing, budgeting, and recruiting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead, develop, and manage an APAC SA team, including training and career development.
  2. Ensure technical excellence across the pre and post sales cycle.
  3. Provide hands-on support for key accounts as needed (presentations, architecture reviews, migration plans).
  4. Oversee and coach SA engagement on strategic accounts and critical deals.
  5. Partner with our engineering org to provide product feedback from the field.

Skills

Required

  • Solutions Architecture/Engineering, Sales Engineering, or Technical Pre-sales roles
  • leadership position
  • web technologies (Next.js, React, Node.js, APIs, cloud infrastructure)
  • lead, coach, and scale technical teams
  • enterprise and commercial customers
  • modern software development workflows (CI/CD, DevOps, frontend frameworks)
  • Sales, Product, and Engineering teams

Nice to have

  • Vercel, Next.js, or similar frontend frameworks
  • SA teams at a high-growth SaaS or cloud infrastructure company
  • developer tooling, edge computing, or performance optimization
  • presenting at conferences, webinars, or large-scale customer events

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture/Engineering, Sales Engineering, or Technical Pre-sales roles, with at least 2+ years in a leadership position.