Principal Collaboration Architect (San Francisco)

Job Overview

Principal Collaboration Architect

This role sits inside our Customer Growth & Insights team, a high‑visibility group dedicated to driving program depth and network scale across our most strategic accounts. You’ll partner closely with customers to design their collaboration program from the ground up: technical architecture, in‑house operating model, use cases, and a measurement framework that proves the program is working. The goal is to build something that the customer’s own team can run and grow independently, with LiveRamp as a strategic partner rather than a permanent fixture.

Responsibilities

• Design end‑to‑end data collaboration programs: technical architecture, data schema, privacy framework, and a roadmap to scaled, independently‑operated programs.
• Build the customer’s internal operating model, organizational structure, workflows, training, and role responsibilities until the customer’s team can run the program without LiveRamp in the room.
• Develop and validate use cases at the intersection of clean room capability and customer business objectives: closed‑loop measurement, audience monetization, media‑driven attribution, and co‑branded data products.
• Instrument a program‑specific incremental value metric for every engagement: the proof point that anchors renewal, expansion, and internal investment decisions.
• Identify and enable agency and data science partners on the customer side; unblocking them is a direct path to faster program activation.
• Engage pre‑sales with solutions engineering to scope technical requirements before contracts are signed, compressing time‑to‑value after close.
• Produce a Master Playbook per program. This is a transferable, reusable foundation that the customer’s team owns at handoff.
• Maintain a partner network perspective on each account: which collaborators belong in the program, which use cases generate the strongest mutual value, and how the customer should expand over time.
• Feed structured product feedback to the product team on a defined cadence, translating real program friction into actionable input.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience in data infrastructure, adtech, or data partnerships, with a substantial portion in senior technical customer‑facing or program leadership roles.
• Hands‑on fluency with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, GCP, AWS, or Azure) and working knowledge of privacy‑enhancing technologies, including clean rooms, data clean room query design, and identity resolution frameworks.
• A track record of designing and leading complex, multi‑stakeholder data programs for enterprise customers at a senior level. Experience establishing internal Centers of Excellence or analogous customer‑side operating models is a strong differentiator.
• Familiarity with publisher monetization, retail media, or brand data strategy. Understanding the business model on both sides of a collaboration is essential.
• Ability to lead technical architecture discussions and executive strategy conversations within the same engagement. Comfort mapping to Product, Data, and Privacy leadership at large organizations.
• Proficiency using AI tools to accelerate workflow output for document generation, query drafting, synthesis, and analysis. This is an active expectation of the role, not a bonus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to translate complex technical concepts for commercial audiences and vice versa.

Compensation

The approximate annual base compensation range is $157,500 to $217,500.

Benefits

• Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
• In‑person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
• Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive benefits package: medical, dental, vision, life and disability, employee assistance program, voluntary benefits, and perks programs.
• 401(k) matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock).
• RampRemote: office equipment and ergonomics program to support performance wherever you’re located.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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