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About the Role

As a technical expert, solution designer, and trusted advisor, you will help customers translate business goals into scalable AI-first architectures. You’ll lead discovery, shape solution strategy, remove technical roadblocks, and guide customers toward successful adoption of Zendesk AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

Design scalable, supportable, and secure AI-first architectures that enable automation, self-service, agent assist, intelligent routing, and other Zendesk AI use cases.
Guide customers through rollout planning, change considerations, and operational readiness to support long-term AI adoption while leveraging AI tools to enhance individual and team workflows for greater efficiency.
Ensure solution decisions are tied to measurable improvements in containment, deflection, productivity, resolution speed, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
Lead customer-facing discovery sessions to understand business challenges, technical constraints, and high-value AI opportunities.
Act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers make informed decisions about architecture, integrations, data readiness, and implementation tradeoffs.
Partner with delivery teams to translate solution designs into successful implementations, ensuring technical quality, alignment to scope, and strong execution.
Work closely with Sales, Customer Success, Support, Product, and Professional Services to align on customer strategy, risks, dependencies, and roadmap considerations.
Identify opportunities to extend Zendesk through APIs, app framework solutions, automation, and custom integrations where needed.
Diagnose product gaps, technical constraints, or workflow limitations and recommend validated workarounds or design alternatives that preserve business outcomes.

Requirements

5+ years in architecture, machine learning engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting
Experience designing and delivering AI/ML solutions in production
Experience with AI-powered service tools, automation platforms, or conversational AI solutions such as Decagon, Forethought, Ada, or similar
Experience evaluating data readiness, governance, and operational readiness for AI solutions
Experience in SaaS, enterprise software, or customer experience technology environments.
Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, integrations, and solution design across web, backend, and/or mobile environments.
Experience leading customer discovery sessions and translating business requirements into technical architecture.
Ability to present technical solutions to both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
Strong stakeholder management, consulting, and collaboration skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or equivalent professional experience.
Ability to work in a hybrid environment and support customer needs across time zones as required.
Fluency in English and German, with the ability to communicate clearly with technical and executive audiences
Experience in a SaaS Professional Services environment.
Experience with Zendesk products at an Admin or Developer level, or similar CRM/CX platforms such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, Freshdesk, or Genesys.
Familiarity with AI concepts relevant to CX, such as intent classification, routing, summarization, agent assist, knowledge grounding, and workflow orchestration.
Experience designing proofs of concept and validating technical approaches before implementation.
Strong project management and negotiation skills.
Programming experience in languages such as JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, or C#.
Zendesk Support Administrator Expert Certification
Experience identifying product gaps and proposing workarounds or extensions using app frameworks or custom development.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to explain complex AI concepts clearly to both technical and executive audiences in English and German.
Strong understanding of how AI capabilities can be applied across the customer service journey to improve efficiency, quality, and experience
Ability to lead complex customer conversations, build trust quickly, and shape technical direction in ambiguous environments.
Proven ability to design end-to-end scalable, maintainable AI architectures
Comfortable balancing technical scope, customer expectations, dependencies, and timelines in a consulting environment.
Strong analytical thinking and practical judgment to evaluate tradeoffs and recommend solutions that work in the real world.
Ability to thrive in dynamic, fast-moving environments where priorities, requirements, and constraints may evolve.
Commitment to staying current on Zendesk capabilities, AI trends, customer service transformation, and modern integration patterns.

Location

hybrid

Work Type

hybrid

Experience Level

5+ years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or equivalent professional experience.

About the Company

Customer experience is being transformed by AI-driven innovation. At Zendesk, we’re not just responding to that shift — we’re leading it.
Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.
Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

Equal Opportunity

As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.
Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to peopleandplaces@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.