Postman - Senior Solutions Architect

• 1. Strategic Engagement & Customer Leadership • Serve as the technical lead and trusted advisor for a portfolio of Postman’s most strategic enterprise accounts, guiding customers through every stage of the API lifecycle. • Develop a deep understanding of each customer’s strategic initiatives, organizational goals, and API maturity, and align Postman’s platform to support outcomes like digital acceleration, internal developer productivity, and API monetization. • Define and drive joint success plans that reflect both technical enablement and business value realization. • 2. Business-Driven Technical Advisory • Engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate business drivers and pain points into actionable technical strategies using Postman’s products and capabilities. • Articulate complex problem spaces—such as API governance, developer onboarding, service discoverability, or versioning challenges—into clear implementation paths. • Provide proactive, high-touch advisory to promote best practices in API design, testing, monitoring, collaboration, and consumption. • 3. Pattern Matching, Knowledge Sharing & Product Influence • Identify and synthesize recurring usage patterns, friction points, and unmet needs across your customer portfolio to influence Postman’s strategic approach to large enterprises. • Contribute to internal playbooks and reusable architectures, enabling the broader team to scale enterprise best practices. • Act as a critical feedback loop to the Product and Engineering teams, providing structured, prioritized insights that inform roadmap discussions and influence feature prioritization. • Partner with Product Managers during roadmap reviews, early access programs, and pilot deployments to ensure enterprise requirements are incorporated early and often. • 4. Opportunity Discovery & Growth Activation • Adopt a hunter mindset within each strategic account, working to uncover new use cases, teams, and departments where Postman can deliver high value. • Use product usage data, strategic account planning sessions, and stakeholder interviews to map expansion pathways. • Collaborate closely with Account Executives and Customer Success Managers to drive revenue growth through renewals, expansions, and cross-functional adoption. • 5. Cross-Functional Collaboration • Operate as a hub of strategic account intelligence, collaborating seamlessly with teams across Postman including: • Sales & Customer Success to define account strategy and measure business impact. • Solutions Engineering for deep technical validations and implementation guidance. • Product & Engineering to advocate for critical customer needs and influence roadmap direction. • Marketing and Partnerships to amplify customer stories, surface use cases, and explore integrations. • Lead or contribute to cross-functional account reviews, customer business reviews (QBRs), and internal deal desk discussions to align on strategy and execution. • 6. Relationship Building & Executive Engagement • Build long-term, trust-based relationships with senior technical and business stakeholders. • Navigate complex customer organizations to influence decision-making and drive alignment across silos. • Represent Postman with thought leadership and strategic presence in customer briefings, workshops, and co-innovation sessions. • 8+ years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role (e.g., Technical Account Manager, Solutions Architect, Enterprise Consultant) with a strong emphasis on working with Fortune 500 or large-scale global enterprises across complex, multi-cloud and hybrid environments. • Proven track record of driving enterprise adoption of API platforms and delivering measurable impact through solutioning, technical leadership, and strategic account growth. • RESTful API design, GraphQL, and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications • API governance frameworks, schema standardization, and lifecycle management • API security protocols: OAuth 2.0, JWT, API keys, SSO/SAML integrations • Mocking, testing, monitoring, and documentation best practices at scale • Environment and variable management for multi-stage deployments • Hands-on experience with source control (Git), CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps), and modern DevOps/infra tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.). • Ability to develop custom scripts or integrations using JavaScript or Python to enhance workflow automation, API validation, or bridge systems (e.g., analytics, internal tooling). • Strong business acumen and executive presence—capable of translating technical challenges into business opportunities and aligning Postman’s value to customer KPIs such as time-to-market, API reuse, governance compliance, and platform ROI. • Proven success in leading customer-facing workshops, technical enablement sessions, and strategic roadmap reviews—with the ability to communicate effectively across engineering, platform, security, and executive audiences. • Comfortable navigating and influencing cross-functional internal teams (Sales, Product, Engineering, CS, Solutions Engineering) to deliver on long-term customer strategy. • Highly curious, analytical, and driven by impact—with a mindset that seeks continuous learning, scalable patterns, and long-term customer advocacy. • What Else? • What Else? • In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Along with that, our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves. • At Postman we value in person collaboration. We are in office 5 days a week for all roles based out of our hubs in San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, Tokyo and London. For roles based in Bangalore, employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our in office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom. • Our Values • Our Values • At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can. • Equal opportunity • Equal opportunity