Livefront

• Help develop and execute on product strategy, ensuring alignment with client goals and objectives. • Manage the complete product lifecycle from ideation to launch, incorporating user research, stakeholder perspective, and product usage analysis to inform direction. • Own execution and delivery efforts, including product releases, managing requirements, writing development tasks, and managing both internal and public product releases. • Develop measurement approaches to evaluate product effectiveness and impact. • Define and execute product experiments (A/B testing) to drive incremental product growth and engagement. • Collaborate with product designers to discover and bring definition to new product opportunities, serving as a thought partner through the design process. • Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features based on desirability, viability, and feasibility. • Drive product innovation by identifying new opportunities and championing the development of new experiences that enhance user engagement and drive business results. • Lead cross-functional teams in an agile environment, effectively managing product backlogs, sprint planning, and iterative development cycles. • Utilize data-driven decision-making to evaluate product performance, identify areas for improvement, and inform future development priorities. • Engage with key clients and stakeholders, building strong relationships and effectively communicating product vision, progress, and impact. • Conduct competitive analysis to stay ahead of industry trends and ensure our clients’ products remain market leaders. • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging innovation, efficiency, and collaboration within the product team and across Livefront.

• Work directly with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams to design and build user-friendly digital experiences that align with client goals and user needs. • Collaborate closely with clients to understand their needs and define requirements. • Test and refine designs to deliver flawless user experiences throughout the entire product lifecycle. • Mentor and work with other members of the Livefront product design team. • Work with zero-to-one and established design systems to maintain and update style guides, assets, and deliverables. • Work with engineers to answer design questions, make adjustments, and provide assets for the design-to-development hand-off process. • Work within the production constraints of each platform for which we’re designing and/or engineering. • Manage your time across a mix of both small and large projects with overlapping priority and urgency. • Organize and maintain working files inside a collaborative file structure. • Adopt new practices and tools as our work and the design industry evolves. • Proofread copy and fix errors and formatting in design source files and production decks. • Note: The above is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function within the Livefront design team.

• Architecture Design & Implementation: Lead the design of robust architectures tailored to client needs. Implement these solutions hands-on, ensuring scalability and maintainability. • API Design & Integration: Design, develop, and integrate APIs, ensuring seamless communication between systems and enhancing overall performance. • Technical Leadership: Guide and mentor engineering teams, conduct code reviews, and set technical standards. Engage in technical spikes to explore new technologies and methods. • Client Interaction: Work closely with clients to understand their business goals, present technical solutions, and adjust strategies based on feedback. • DevOps & Release Management: Design, set up, and maintain CI/CD pipelines. Manage deployment processes, ensuring smooth and reliable releases. • Problem-Solving & Troubleshooting: Address and resolve technical issues promptly, ensuring minimal disruption to project timelines. • Adaptability: Engage in diverse projects, from API design to live team support to fulltime DevOps, adapting your skills to meet varied client needs.

• Build and lead Livefront’s AI & Automation practice • Own the evolution and growth of Livefront’s AI & Automation service line, including: AI Strategy & Readiness, Agentic Software Engineering, Enterprise Agents & Workflow Automation, AI Platforms & Context Services Engineering, AI Product Development, and AI Training & Enablement. • Own the full portfolio of AI workstreams across the company, ensuring alignment, prioritization, and execution across internal enablement, platform/IP development, client delivery, and market positioning. • Define what “excellent” looks like for AI delivery at Livefront: playbooks, reference architectures, evaluation approaches, governance, security posture, and operational standards. • Recruit, mentor, and develop a team of AI leaders and practitioners; establish career pathways and raise the technical bar across the organization. • Help Livefront evolve all service lines (Digital Strategy & Product, Data & Analytics, Experience Design, Software Engineering, Data & Analytics) to better leverage AI. • Drive internal AI adoption, training, and transformation • Own internal AI adoption across Livefront, removing barriers to usage and ensuring AI becomes a default part of how teams work.  • Establish and scale internal training programs and certification pathways. • Ensure internal teams have access to best-in-class tools, documentation, reference implementations, and accelerators. • Help embed AI expectations into roles, performance criteria, delivery standards, and career development pathways. • Shape market-facing offerings and go-to-market motion • Track the market direction of AI—platforms, models, tooling, regulations, and emerging patterns—and translate that into clear, differentiated offerings clients can buy. • Partner with Livefront leadership to mature our go-to-market approach for AI services: positioning, packaging, sales enablement, pursuit strategy, and thought leadership. • Build and manage strategic partnerships across AI frontier labs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake), and cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Microsoft). • Ensure a consistent pipeline of AI-forward case studies and proof points, working across delivery and marketing to translate client work into compelling stories that support sales and positioning. • Own and drive thought leadership efforts that establish Livefront as a leader. • Serve as a trusted executive presence in client and prospect engagements by leading discovery, shaping strategy, articulating value, and aligning stakeholders. • Build Livefront’s AI platform, IP, and accelerators • Own the development of Livefront’s agentic product development framework. • Drive the creation of reusable AI assets: agents, accelerators, frameworks, and internal tools that compound delivery efficiency and differentiation. • Lead delivery on high-impact work • Lead and/or sponsor key client engagements involving complex AI architectures, agentic systems, and enterprise-grade implementations. • Run short, focused experiments when needed to evaluate new tools and approaches, reduce risk, and accelerate delivery. • Ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, observable, secure, and governed. • Drive AI-led client transformation and revenue growth • Drive adoption of agentic engineering and AI platforms in client delivery in a repeatable, scalable way. • Oversee the development of custom enterprise AI agents for clients. • Lead and scale our client training & workshops.

• Work closely with clients to understand their business goals around implementing AI technologies, present sustainable and achievable technical solutions, and adjust strategies based on feedback. • Guide and mentor engineering teams with your AI expertise, both internally to Livefront and externally with the client, by setting technical standards, conducting code reviews, and contributing to product vision. • Engage in technical spikes to explore new technologies and methods. • Lead the design of robust architectures tailored to client needs and implement these solutions hands-on, ensuring scalability and maintainability. • Design, develop, and integrate APIs, data pipelines, and end-to-end infrastructure that ensure seamless communication between systems. Help optimize performance and enable AI models to be useful, scalable, and maintainable. • Adapt your skills across diverse projects, including API design, real-time technical support, and DevOps, demonstrating versatility and responsiveness to varied client needs. • Collaborate cross-functionally, streamlining communication between backend teams, frontend teams, designers, and other team members.

• Work closely with clients to understand their business goals around implementing AI technologies, present sustainable and achievable technical solutions, and adjust strategies based on feedback. • Guide and mentor engineering teams with your AI expertise, both internally to Livefront and externally with the client, by setting technical standards, conducting code reviews, and contributing to product vision. • Engage in technical spikes to explore new technologies and methods. • Lead the design of robust architectures tailored to client needs and implement these solutions hands-on, ensuring scalability and maintainability. • Design, develop, and integrate APIs, data pipelines, and end-to-end infrastructure that ensure seamless communication between systems. Help optimize performance and enable AI models to be useful, scalable, and maintainable. • Adapt your skills across diverse projects, including API design, real-time technical support, and DevOps, demonstrating versatility and responsiveness to varied client needs. • Collaborate cross-functionally, streamlining communication between backend teams, frontend teams, designers, and other team members.

• Work closely with clients to understand their business goals around implementing AI technologies, present sustainable and achievable technical solutions, and adjust strategies based on feedback. • Guide and mentor engineering teams with your AI expertise, both internally to Livefront and externally with the client, by setting technical standards, conducting code reviews, and contributing to product vision. • Engage in technical spikes to explore new technologies and methods. • Lead the design of robust architectures tailored to client needs and implement these solutions hands-on, ensuring scalability and maintainability. • Design, develop, and integrate APIs, data pipelines, and end-to-end infrastructure that ensure seamless communication between systems. Help optimize performance and enable AI models to be useful, scalable, and maintainable. • Adapt your skills across diverse projects, including API design, real-time technical support, and DevOps, demonstrating versatility and responsiveness to varied client needs. • Collaborate cross-functionally, streamlining communication between backend teams, frontend teams, designers, and other team members.

At Livefront, we help companies design and build world-class digital products that command attention and inspire joy. We’ve helped household names like Target, Samsung, General Mills, and Optum create experiences that have reached millions of people, and startups like HomeSpotter and Acclaim build entirely new businesses that challenge their industries’ status quo. We’re looking for an outstanding Solutions Architect to join our team. This role is an intentional blend of API design, app architecture, code review, DevOps, release management, technical spikes, and client communication. Who you are What you bring to the table At least 7-10 years of software engineering experience, preferably in a consulting environment or as part of an in-house, cross-functional product team. Experience building consumer-facing native mobile and web applications, with a fluent command of the native languages and core frameworks. Demonstrated expertise architecting, building, maintaining, and scaling modern software on various platforms. Ability to design, setup, and maintain DevOps pipelines using various tools and techniques. Ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and manage complex deployments. Scripting expertise (Unix shell, Ruby, Perl, etc.). Experience designing APIs and writing API specifications. Ability to clearly articulate technical requirements to other engineers. An understanding of computer networking (e.g. VPNs, SSH, Wi-Fi) and have experience setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting computer networks. A keen sense for security: you're able to think around corners and see potential risks. An ability to understand client expectations, the work the team has done and still has to do to meet those expectations, and the ability to motivate the team to successfully deliver. Work samples showcasing performant, neatly organized code with clean, well-implemented user interfaces.A talent for communicating directly with clients, managing expectations, and explaining advanced technical concepts and their implications. Excellent communication skills and a strong ability to present and defend technical and architectural choices persuasively. Renowned problem-solving skills. Above-average discipline and personal organization skills.A demonstrated hunger for personal and professional growth. A self-evident love and care for the craft of software engineering. Comfort with occasional travel to our HQ in MN. Bonus points if you… Have strong illustration chops as it relates to technical diagramming. Speak, write, and/or educate publicly about technical topics. Have publicly released your own personal, self-started products or apps. Enjoy tinkering with emerging languages and platforms such as Go, Rust, Alexa, and/or Unity. What to expect When applying, please include a short note about yourself, a summary of your work experience, and a link to any public profiles you actively maintain (e.g. GitHub, LinkedIn, etc). Our hiring process moves quickly and consists of several stages for candidates who capture our attention with their initial submission, sometimes including but not limited to a short preliminary phone interview, a series of video interviews, and a short take-home exercise which you'll have up to a week to complete. Compensation is $115,000 - $160,000 a year. Additional information We go out of our way to evaluate all employees and job applicants equally based on merit, competence, and qualifications. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and consider all qualified applicants.

• Partner directly with the Chief Growth Officer and client partner leadership to shape and evolve Livefront’s marketing strategy. • Help define marketing priorities, focus areas, and success metrics in support of business and growth goals. • Act as a strategic thought partner on brand positioning, go-to-market efforts, and growth opportunities. • Lead planning and execution for marketing programs and campaigns across content, events, brand, and partnerships. • Collaborate with leaders, sales partners, content creators, designers, and subject matter experts to align messaging and storytelling. • Support the creation, distribution, and amplification of content across channels, including events, social, and the website. • Guide Livefront’s approach to events, conferences, sponsorships, and community engagement. • Build and document foundational marketing processes, workflows, tools, and best practices. • Establish methods for tracking effectiveness and ROI across marketing initiatives. • Use data and insights to continuously refine marketing efforts and recommend improvements. • Work closely with HubSpot to manage clients, accounts, segments, and CRM data. • Editor-in-Chief of the website from a marketing lens and an actionable perspective. • Be called upon as a subject matter expert in tools, processes, approaches, and best practices to support the Chief Growth Officer and the Growth team to better land new logos in key markets and key verticals. • Help us market within our own accounts to truly land-and-expand.

• Represent Livefront’s leading skills, expertise, and visionary outlook to major clients and the industry through high-profile networking, strategic outreach, and key industry events. • Identify, prospect, and secure major, strategic clients with significant revenue potential, perfectly aligned with Livefront’s advanced capabilities. • Communicate Livefront’s unique and superior value proposition to key prospective clients through sophisticated presentations, high-level negotiations, and impactful outreach campaigns. • Collaborate strategically with Solutions Architects to propose optimal team/resourcing plans for complex client briefs and develop impactful, high-value pricing proposals. • Leverage the talents of the UX Strategy and Commercial Operations teams to develop compelling, innovative concepts and sophisticated pitch materials that resonate with top-tier clients. • Independently drive and close high-value, complex deals with key clients, consistently exceeding ambitious targets. • Develop highly persuasive sales presentations, strategic proposals, and other high-impact sales support and/or marketing materials tailored to major accounts. • Craft engagements that solve the most critical and complex client needs, leverage the full potential of Livefront’s robust processes and methodologies, and empower our team to deliver exceptional results and drive maximum client impact. • Independently create and manage complex, high-stakes sales contracts like MSAs and SOWs with key clients. • Manage and provide strategic insights and forecasts based on detailed activity tracking and analysis of major deals within the CRM. • Conduct advanced competitive analysis and market research to understand complex customer needs and emerging industry trends across digital services. • Own and drive the strategy and execution for key areas within the Growth function, developing and implementing plans to achieve ambitious growth targets in these areas.