[Hiring] Senior Manager Product Architecture @Thryv

Role Description

At Thryv, we’re a team that lives by teamwork. However, it’s not the work that drives us, it’s the respect, trust, and care for each other that defines us as a team. We’re a diverse community of trendsetters who do our best work in a fun, relaxed environment. Technology never stops evolving and neither do we. We’re always looking for the best and brightest team players to join us.

This role is responsible for guiding, mentoring, and managing the work of Product Architects leading a team focused on integrations and services. The Sr Manager Product Architecture partners with application owners, designers, developers, business analysts, and project managers to create solutions aligned to architecture principles, leveraging common and cloud-based solutions and services while meeting financial targets (cost and benefits).

• Represents technology, strategy, and architecture in programs and initiatives.
• Partners with business stakeholders to understand strategy and drivers, providing solutions architecture recommendations, design, and guidance.
• Identifies gaps and opportunities for enhanced capabilities and automation frameworks.
• Monitors technology trends to assess emerging impacts and deliver viable solutions.
• Oversees the architecture guild.
• Reviews and approves architecture analyses and designs to ensure fulfillment of requirements.
• Leads technology product evaluation and selection to support strategic initiatives.
• Initiates proofs of concept and builds prototypes to assess new solution approaches.
• Assists in developing strategies for integration stacks, data architecture and data modeling, AI integration, and broad dependency identifications.
• Manages a team of architects and engineers for shared applications and services.
• Mentors and guides design, documentation of best practices, and architectural strategies.
• Leads integration projects advancing SaaS-to-SaaS capabilities.
• Drives technology strategy, architecture, and design, leveraging AI for accelerated delivery.
• Engages partners and vendors from research through service delivery.
• Produces conceptual and logical architectures to meet strategic business and technology objectives through documentation of systems, architectures, process flows, and value chains.
• Manages tradeoffs between speed, quality, security, and financial impact.
• Collaborates with development teams, leads meetings, and acts as a decision maker for technical solutions.
• Owns solution evaluation and selection, including buy vs. build decisions, and early-phase project estimates within the solution development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) or equivalent experience, required.
• 8+ years of related experience, required.
• Experience in data architecture, data modeling, and software development/programming, required.
• 10+ years of related experience, preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrates strong architecture experience skills working on SOA or micro service models.
• Extensive experience with integrations technologies, iPaaS stacks, and researching new and existing technologies.
• Comprehensive API authentication skills, use and implementation including familiarity with REST languages such as JSON.
• Background leveraging artificial intelligence with engineering organizations.
• Extensive industry knowledge and understanding of service-oriented architecture databases and data modeling techniques.
• Extensive knowledge of AWS/GCP cloud infrastructure compute environments.
• Strong resource management skills.
• Strong ability to articulate the value proposition of getting solutions built using sound architecture principles.
• Ability to travel less than 5% of the time.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must successfully complete pre-employment screening process, as required.
• Must successfully complete any required training or orientation courses, as needed.

Benefits

• Life requires balance, so we provide benefits around health and wellness, continued education, and work/life balance.
• Work from anywhere – Thryv is a Remote First company!
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans, plus a wellness program with added incentives.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match and employee stock purchase plan.
• Continuing education benefits with tuition assistance programs.
• One week of paid time off at the end of the year, in addition to our standard paid time off policy.

Company Description

At Thryv, we’re a team fiercely devoted to the success of local businesses. We’ve been around for over 100 years, always with one goal in mind — helping small businesses compete, win, and succeed. We provide the technology, software, and local business automation tools small business owners need to better manage their time, communicate with clients, and get paid, so they can take control of their business and be more successful.

We support businesses across the U.S. and our team members are located across the country, and internationally. We operate as a work from anywhere company and believe this allows us to be more productive.

Culture is vital at Thryv because it shapes our identity and, therefore, our measurements for growth. We have an identified set of values that hold all of us accountable paving the way for our company success and our legacy.

• Client Devoted – Be humble with a servant mentality.
• Under Promise, Over Deliver – Deliver expectations and exceed them.
• Act Like You Own the Place – Taking ownership and accountability in your day-to-day decisions.
• Invest in our People – Hire people that are aligned with Thryv’s core values.
• DONE3 – Define what you say (Done), Do what you say (Done), Follow up and ensure completion (Done).
• Making $$ is a Byproduct of Helping People – Always be devoted to people, act with integrity.
• Think Long Term, Act with Passion & Integrity – Focus on making every interaction exceptional.