Director, Composable DXP Leader, Market Solutions - Enterprise Business Applications (Chicago)

About Slalom’s Enterprise CapabilityAt the heart of Slalom’s Enterprise Capability is a bold ambition: to design and deliver intelligent, human-centered business applications that empower organizations to serve their customers with acceleration, agility, precision, and purpose.We partner with leading platforms—Salesforce, ServiceNow, Adobe, Anaplan, Workday, Contentful, Boomi, Workato and more—to build scalable, end-to-end solutions that unify data, streamline operations, and unlock actionable insights. Our work powers everything from smarter CRM experiences and next-gen commerce sites to resilient case management systems and optimized workforce planning.But we're not just technologists—we’re strategic enablers. Whether helping a client modernize their infrastructure, integrate mission-critical functions, or activate AI-powered innovation, we connect strategy to execution in ways that drive measurable impact.Here, you’ll collaborate with curious, courageous people who believe in growth through experimentation, delivering value through partnerships, and building a future where technology works quietly in service of extraordinary outcomes.Title: Director, Composable DXP Leader, Market Solutions Who You’ll Work With: Slalom's Composable Platforms practice helps enterprise clients build modern digital experience platforms with Contentful, Next.js, Vercel, Algolia, and Bynder. We're a team of strategists, architects, and engineers across North America, backed by deep partnerships with the platforms partnerships. As a Director on our Market Solutions track, you'll work alongside the practice's senior leadership to grow the business. You'll partner with market sales teams, industry leaders, and alliance teams across Salesforce, AWS, Microsoft, and Google. This is a go-to-market leadership role. You'll spend most of your time shaping pursuits, building partner pipeline, and creating the offerings the practice sells, with the rest in billable solution-lead roles that keep your expertise sharp. What You’ll Do: * Support sales activities for composable platform engagements. You'll carry a personal revenue contribution target and own a portfolio of pursuits as the solution lead. * Shape opportunities with market sales teams: discovery conversations, solution design, estimation, proposal development, and orals. * Support go-to-market motions with our platform partners, especially Contentful, Vercel, Algolia, and Bynder. Partner-sourced pipeline is a core expectation of this role. * Create and refresh offerings: the accelerators, reference architectures, and sales enablement materials that make our pursuits repeatable and profitable. * Serve in billable engagement roles (solution lead, oversight, architecture advisory) at roughly 45% utilization, staying credible with clients and current with the platforms. * Advise client executives on platform strategy: headless CMS architecture, composable commerce, API-first design, and where AI fits in the digital experience stack. You'll be the person who can explain the trade-offs between build paths in language a CMO and a CTO both trust. * Publish and speak. Conference talks, partner events, webinars, and written points of view that build the practice's reputation and generate inbound demand. * Develop people. You'll have direct reports and will mentor solution leads across the practice on outcome-based selling, ROI storytelling, and pursuit craft. What You'll Bring: * You've led solutuion-building for digital platform or experience work at a large consultancy or a digital agency, ideally one in the Contentful partner ecosystem. You know how partner co-selling actually works: the field alignment, the deal registration, the joint account planning. * A track record of personal sales contribution in professional services. You've sourced, shaped, and closed seven-figure engagements, not just delivered them. * Deep, current expertise in composable architecture: headless CMS (Contentful preferred), modern front ends (Next.js or similar), edge and serverless deployment (Vercel or similar), search (Algolia or similar), and DAM (Bynder or similar). * Platform certifications. Contentful certification is strongly preferred. Certifications across the rest of the stack (Vercel, Algolia, Bynder) or a major cloud provider tell us you take the craft seriously. * You can run a technical pursuit end to end: discovery, architecture point of view, delivery model, team shape, estimate, and commercial structure. * Executive presence with both business and engineering audiences. You can hold a room of client VPs in the morning and pressure-test an architecture with senior engineers in the afternoon. * Experience managing and growing senior technical talent in a consulting environment. * Comfort context-switching across pre-sales, billable delivery, partner management, and thought leadership in the same week. Consulting Expectations: * Commercial accountability: Own your sales contribution target and the health of your pursuit portfolio. Know your numbers. * Executive presence: Inspire confidence with senior client stakeholders, articulate a platform vision, and drive decisions. * Delivery credibility: When you're in a billable role, the work is excellent. Your delivery reputation is what makes your sales conversations easy. * Collaborative leadership: Build a high-performance culture across the practice and with peers in other capabilities. * Thought leadership: Represent Slalom externally and contribute to our communities of practice. * Location * Flexible hybrid within North America. Travel: * Travel may be required up to 25% based on client needs. About UsSlalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.Compensation and BenefitsSlalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges:East Bay, San Francisco, Silicon Valley:Senior Principal: $222,000-$271,000Director: $260,000-$318,000San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, Seattle, Boston, Houston, New Jersey, New York City, Washington DC, Westchester:Senior Principal: $204,000-$249,000Director: $238,000-$291,000All other locations:Senior Principal: $187,000-$228,000Director: $219,000-$267,000In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time. We will accept applicants until July 30th, 2026 or until the position is filled.We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: View email address on apply.placed-app.com and AccommodationsSlalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. 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