Partner Solution Architect
About Zuora At Zuora, we help businesses grow smarter and adapt faster. Our platform powers modern business models — from subscriptions and usage-based pricing to AI-driven and outcome-based offerings — helping companies launch new products, automate complex billing, and unlock predictable, recurring revenue. We’ve led the Subscription Economy for more than a decade. Now we’re evolving again by building the definitive platform for quote to cash and helping companies monetize their products and services with an adaptable, AI-ready foundation. The Opportunity The Partner Solution Architect is a key member of the Partner Delivery Success organization, responsible for helping partners successfully architect, plan, and deliver Zuora solutions. This role is the technical lead and trusted advisor to partners during partner-led implementations, improving delivery quality, partner readiness, and technical adoption across the ecosystem. This person will work closely with Partners, Global Services, Sales, Customer, Product, and Support to guide solution design, validate technical approaches, mitigate delivery risk, and strengthen partner capability. The role is centered on the technical aspects of partner delivery and implementation success rather than account management. What You’ll Achieve Enable partners to design and deliver scalable, high-quality Zuora implementations. Improve partner implementation health, go-live outcomes, and overall delivery quality. Increase partner technical capability through certification, enablement, and ongoing architecture guidance. Support technical governance across partner-led projects by identifying risks early, guiding mitigation plans, and ensuring alignment to Zuora best practices. In This Role, You Will Partner Solution Architecture & Technical Guidance Provide technical leadership to partners during scoping, discovery, solution design, and implementation planning. Design and validate solution architectures that meet stated and implied business requirements while aligning to Zuora best practices. Review partner technical deliverables to ensure compliance with architecture standards, integration patterns, and delivery guidelines. Produce and review architecture artifacts such as ecosystem and integration diagrams, process flows, swim lanes, ERDs, and related design documentation. Partner Implementation Oversight Serve as a key technical point of contact for partner-led implementations — supporting partner requirements, internal GS coordination, escalations, product and support alignment, and hypercare activities as needed. Help identify technical delivery risks and issues early, and work with partners and internal teams to define mitigation strategies and contingency plans. Support Areas of Complexity assessment and validation to ensure the right level of technical oversight is applied throughout the implementation lifecycle. Provide technical guidance across design, build, test, deployment, UAT, and han...