About the Opportunity
We are hiring a Personalization Solution Architect with deep domain expertise in personalization and experimentation to join Contentful’s Professional Services team. This role is designed for a practitioner who has built, operated, and scaled personalization programs in production, and who also brings the hands-on technical skills required to implement those programs in modern, composable architectures.
This is not a generalist Solution Architect role with light exposure to personalization. Success in this role requires strong opinions and real-world experience across audience strategy, decisioning, experimentation, and measurement—paired with the ability to design and deliver high-quality technical implementations using Contentful Personalization.
You will work directly with customer engineering, product, and marketing teams to design and implement advanced personalization and experimentation solutions, while also serving as a customer-facing extension of Contentful’s Product and Engineering teams. Your work will help reduce implementation risk, accelerate time to value, and create tighter feedback loops into product development—specifically for complex personalization use cases.
What to expect?
**Personalization & Experimentation Domain Leadership **
- Own the end-to-end design of personalization and experimentation programs, including:
- Design personalization strategies that scale responsibly, including:
- Define measurement approaches that connect:
- Act as a domain authority for personalization and experimentation in customer engagements, confidently guiding technical and non-technical stakeholders through best practices, limitations, and tradeoffs.
Technical Solution Architecture & Hands-On Delivery
- Architect and implement end-to-end personalization solutions using Contentful Personalization, including:
- Lead hands-on implementation activities such as:
- Integrate personalization solutions with enterprise platforms including:
- Design personalization delivery patterns across modern rendering strategies:
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements for:
Technical Discovery & Customer Enablement
- Lead technical discovery sessions to assess customer readiness across:
- Translate personalization requirements into detailed technical designs, including:
- Enable customer teams through:
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Feedback Loops
- Partner closely with Contentful Product and Engineering teams to:
- Contribute to internal enablement by:
What you need to be successful?
Required: Personalization & Experimentation Domain Expertise
- Demonstrated, hands-on experience designing and operating personalization and experimentation programs in production, including:
- Strong understanding of personalization challenges such as:
Required: Technical & Architectural Skills
Advanced proficiency with modern web technologies:
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- React with Next.js (preferred), or Vue/Nuxt, Angular
- REST and GraphQL APIs
Deep understanding of web rendering and delivery patterns:
- SSR, CSR, SSG, ISR
- caching strategies and personalization at scale
Strong experience integrating SaaS platforms and enterprise systems via APIs
Experience designing or implementing cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including:
- serverless or microservices-based systems
- event-driven or streaming architectures
Professional Services & Collaboration Skills
- Experience delivering customer-facing technical engagements in a consulting or professional services context
- Comfortable leading technical deep dives with engineering teams and explaining experimentation concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong written communication skills, especially technical documentation
Nice to Have
- Experience with CDPs, tag management systems, and event pipelines
- Familiarity with ML-driven personalization approaches (e.g., propensity models, recommenders), even if models are externally managed
- Experience working in composable DXP ecosystems (CMS, personalization, experimentation, commerce)
What Success Looks Like
- Customers successfully deploy production-grade personalization and experimentation programs using Contentful Personalization.
- Personalization solutions you design are:
- Customer engineering teams trust your guidance because you bring deep personalization domain expertise backed by hands-on implementation experience.
- Product and Engineering teams benefit from clear, actionable feedback rooted in real customer implementations.
- Contentful is consistently seen as a credible personalization partner, not just a technology vendor.
What's in it for you?
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for your dependents.
- Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value** Work-Life balance and You Time**!** **A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss, education days, and volunteer days
- Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
- A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
This role will need to be conducted in a state in which we are currently registered to do business. In addition, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work without the need for visa sponsorship by the start date of employment.
This position is eligible for equity awards in accordance with the terms of Contentful’s equity plans.
llinois Salary Statement: The salary range displayed is specifically for those potential hires who will work or reside in the state of Illinois if selected for the role. Any offered salary is determined based on internal equity, internal salary ranges, market data/ranges, applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications (e.g. JD/technology), for example.
Illinois Salary Range: $140,000 - $190,000 (80/20 split)
Who are we?
Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. By blending composability with native AI capabilities, Contentful enables dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences across brands, regions, and channels for more than 4,200 organizations worldwide. More than 700 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver, San Francisco, London, New York, and distributed worldwide.
Everyone is welcome here!
“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!
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