Technical Architect
ThoughtSpot
IT
United States
USD 120k-175k / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 6, 2026
The Role
At ThoughtSpot, the North America Technical Architect is a strategic member of the Global Technical Architect organization. This role partners with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Professional Services teams to provide technical leadership across the customer lifecycle - from Proof of Value through deployment, adoption, and expansion.
Supporting both Commercial and Enterprise segments, the Technical Architect ensures scalable architecture, mitigates technical risk, and drives architectural consistency across engagements. This role collaborates closely with Product Management and Engineering to represent the voice of the customer and influence roadmap direction.
What You’ll Do
Success in this role is measured by increased PoV conversion, reduced deployment friction, improved customer retention and expansion, and meaningful field-informed contributions to product direction.
The estimated annual salary range for this role is $120k - $175k in most U.S. locations.
Actual compensation may vary and will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, qualifications, experience, and location of the selected candidate.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits.
Mandatory And Required Skills For All ThoughtSpot Roles
Spotters are expected to demonstrate AI literacy and workflow integration to include to ability to:
AI Mindset for All Spotters
At ThoughtSpot, we believe AI is a necessary and essential part of how we work. Every role, across every team, is expected to be fluent and comfortable with using AI to do their best work.
All Spotters are expected to experiment with ThoughtSpot’s AI tools (like Spotter and SpotterViz) and leading industry LLMs to streamline workflows, enhance output, and uncover new insights. Whether drafting content, analyzing data, or summarizing documents, AI is a daily partner. We value curiosity, openness to learning, and thoughtful application of AI to create real value. Training and resources are provided so every Spotter can confidently create with AI.
ThoughtSpot for All
At ThoughtSpot, diverse teams build better products. Complex data problems need many perspectives, not just one. We welcome different backgrounds, identities, and experiences, and we work to create a place where everyone can be themselves and do their best work. If this role excites you and you believe you’re a strong match, we encourage you to apply.
What Makes ThoughtSpot a Great Place to Work?
ThoughtSpot is the Agentic Analytics Platform that empowers every enterprise to transform insights into action, on a mission to make the world more fact driven. We hire people with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectives - this balance-for-the-better philosophy is key to our success. When paired with our culture of Trust, Customer Obsession, Innovation and Intensity, ThoughtSpot cultivates a respectful culture that pushes norms to create world-class products. If you’re excited by the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the business and make your mark on a truly innovative company, we invite you to read more about our mission, and apply to the role that’s right for you.
About ThoughtSpot
The world’s most innovative companies turn to ThoughtSpot’s AI-Powered Analytics to put data in the hands of everyone, from the C-suite to the frontline. With simple, natural language search and AI, anyone can ask questions, discover insights, and act with confidence. Unlike legacy tools that sacrifice performance for complexity, ThoughtSpot is intuitively designed for every business user while being built to handle the most complex, large-scale data, wherever it resides. This unique combination of speed and simplicity is why enterprise leaders trust ThoughtSpot to transform decision-making into a truly data-driven culture.
At ThoughtSpot, we’re a curious, data-driven bunch. We believe the world works better when everyone has access to facts. That’s why we build products that make asking and answering data questions as natural as having a conversation.
At ThoughtSpot, the North America Technical Architect is a strategic member of the Global Technical Architect organization. This role partners with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Professional Services teams to provide technical leadership across the customer lifecycle - from Proof of Value through deployment, adoption, and expansion.
Supporting both Commercial and Enterprise segments, the Technical Architect ensures scalable architecture, mitigates technical risk, and drives architectural consistency across engagements. This role collaborates closely with Product Management and Engineering to represent the voice of the customer and influence roadmap direction.
What You’ll Do
- Lead architectural strategy and risk mitigation for complex and high-impact opportunities
- Design and validate scalable solutions aligned to modern cloud data platforms
- Partner with account teams to accelerate PoVs and ensure implementation feasibility
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor during PoV’s, deployments, health checks, and expansion initiatives
- Act as an escalation point for performance, security, governance, and integration challenges
- Develop reusable architectural patterns and best practices
- Support and elevate field teams through architectural guidance and knowledge sharing
- Provide structured field feedback to Product and Engineering to influence feature development and scalability improvements
- 8+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solutions Engineering, Data Platform Architecture, or Technical Consulting
- Broad knowledge across multiple technology stacks, with a strong foundation in database and BI architecture, including SQL, dimensional modeling, data warehousing, cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift), BI tooling (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI), and ETL/ELT design
- Solid understanding of enterprise architecture principles, including security frameworks, governance, networking, secure connectivity, and identity/access management (SSO/SAML)
- Experience of influencing complex technical sales cycles and customer deployments
- Proven adaptability to new and emerging technologies and tools
- Strong executive communication skills and ability to translate both technical complexity into business value and business requirements into technical requirements
- AI/ML or AI-driven analytics experience
- Coding or application development experience
- API and embedded analytics experience
- Python or scripting experience
Success in this role is measured by increased PoV conversion, reduced deployment friction, improved customer retention and expansion, and meaningful field-informed contributions to product direction.
The estimated annual salary range for this role is $120k - $175k in most U.S. locations.
Actual compensation may vary and will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, qualifications, experience, and location of the selected candidate.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits.
Mandatory And Required Skills For All ThoughtSpot Roles
Spotters are expected to demonstrate AI literacy and workflow integration to include to ability to:
- Comfortably and confidently integrate artificial intelligence into their daily workflow to increase productivity and quality.
- Hands-on experience to leverage AI tools (industry-leading LLMs) to increase productivity, automate routine tasks, and improve work quality.
- Speak to the experience of using AI for research, content creation, and document summarization while maintaining ownership of judgment and final decisions.
- Write effective prompts to get the most accurate and creative results from AI tools.
- Curiosity in exploring new AI tools
- Adaptability to quickly learn and implement new, emerging AI technologies
- Critical thinking to know when to identify when AI should be used versus when human judgement is necessary
AI Mindset for All Spotters
At ThoughtSpot, we believe AI is a necessary and essential part of how we work. Every role, across every team, is expected to be fluent and comfortable with using AI to do their best work.
All Spotters are expected to experiment with ThoughtSpot’s AI tools (like Spotter and SpotterViz) and leading industry LLMs to streamline workflows, enhance output, and uncover new insights. Whether drafting content, analyzing data, or summarizing documents, AI is a daily partner. We value curiosity, openness to learning, and thoughtful application of AI to create real value. Training and resources are provided so every Spotter can confidently create with AI.
ThoughtSpot for All
At ThoughtSpot, diverse teams build better products. Complex data problems need many perspectives, not just one. We welcome different backgrounds, identities, and experiences, and we work to create a place where everyone can be themselves and do their best work. If this role excites you and you believe you’re a strong match, we encourage you to apply.
What Makes ThoughtSpot a Great Place to Work?
ThoughtSpot is the Agentic Analytics Platform that empowers every enterprise to transform insights into action, on a mission to make the world more fact driven. We hire people with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectives - this balance-for-the-better philosophy is key to our success. When paired with our culture of Trust, Customer Obsession, Innovation and Intensity, ThoughtSpot cultivates a respectful culture that pushes norms to create world-class products. If you’re excited by the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the business and make your mark on a truly innovative company, we invite you to read more about our mission, and apply to the role that’s right for you.
About ThoughtSpot
The world’s most innovative companies turn to ThoughtSpot’s AI-Powered Analytics to put data in the hands of everyone, from the C-suite to the frontline. With simple, natural language search and AI, anyone can ask questions, discover insights, and act with confidence. Unlike legacy tools that sacrifice performance for complexity, ThoughtSpot is intuitively designed for every business user while being built to handle the most complex, large-scale data, wherever it resides. This unique combination of speed and simplicity is why enterprise leaders trust ThoughtSpot to transform decision-making into a truly data-driven culture.
At ThoughtSpot, we’re a curious, data-driven bunch. We believe the world works better when everyone has access to facts. That’s why we build products that make asking and answering data questions as natural as having a conversation.