Verndale is a digital experience agency dedicated to driving growth by helping businesses create meaningful human connections in an increasingly digital world. With offices in Boston, Montreal, Los Angeles, Quito, and hubs across the Americas, we partner with marketing and technology leaders to deliver personalized web, mobile, and ecommerce solutions that elevate customer experiences. 

At Verndale, we thrive on collaboration and innovation, offering a full range of services that span strategy, design, development, personalization, SEO, analytics, and digital advertising. We celebrate diversity and inclusion, striving to create a climate of respect essential for both individual and company success.

If you're ready to be part of a passionate team dedicated to making an impact and driving growth, we invite you to explore a career at Verndale. 

About the role

Terrific opportunity for a Salesforce subject matter expert to take on a functional leadership role within Verndale! The Solution Consultant will drive solution architecture in sales pursuits, be a trusted client advisor and ensure consistent delivery for clients in the Salesforce space. The Solution Consultant serves as subject matter expert in a skill and/or solution and is responsible for client delivery, proposals, new business opportunities, and knowledge management. The Solution Consultant works closely with the Business Analyst and Technical Architect to understand requirements and enable the authoring/development of quality solutions that meet the requirements of our clients.

Responsibilities

• Guide clients through the implementation of Salesforce solutions.
• Serves as the technical leader for Salesforce projects onsite at client locations.
• Translates business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platforms and products.
• Provide detailed level of effort estimates for proposed solutions.
• Articulate the benefits and risks to a solution’s feasibility and functionality.
• Design elegant, innovative Salesforce solutions involving configuration of Salesforce and Managed Packages, creation and refinement of complex data models, external integration, business process automation, and other custom functionality.
• Draft custom development specifications and manage the delivery and testing of the functionality by Development resource.
• Provide hands-on, expert-level technical assistance to developers.
• Design and manage the execution of test plans to ensure a quality solution is delivered.
• Follow and understand new Salesforce product and technical capabilities resulting from product releases and acquisitions.
• Provide expertise during sales efforts to estimate the technical level of effort.
• Participate in marketing events (e.g. sales meetings).
• Demonstrate thought leadership through publishing, public speaking and client presentations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of CRM industry experience.
• Minimum 5 years of Salesforce platform experience.
• Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and integrate business processes across disparate systems.
• Excellent client-facing written and oral communications skills.
• Active Salesforce certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire.

Ten Great Reasons to Work at Verndale

1. We are a rapidly growing company that is just as scrappy and entrepreneurial today as when we were founded in 1998.
2. We are relentlessly curious and enthusiastically solve our clients’ complex business problems through technology, data, and design.
3. We foster a culture that enables every person in the organization to do the best work of their career.
4. We offer regular training and professional development to move careers forward.
5. Client and employee satisfaction are our two most important business metrics.
6. We celebrate and champion diversity, equity, and inclusion.
7. We offer generous paid company holidays, vacation, and paid sick time to every employee starting on day one.
8. We offer top-of-the-line Health Insurance, plus monthly perks customized to meet individual employees’ needs. 
9. We support a healthy work/life balance.
10. We are fully remote enabled and embrace the evolving definition of the workplace