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A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, South America, Europe and India.

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A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe, and India. Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

We are currently searching for a Graphic Designer to take our marketing ambitions to the next level, propelled by design. As an A5 Graphic Designer, you’ll be working closely with our marketing department and carrying out all creative projects. Your day-to-day may include designing visuals for our blog, ads, video animations, social media posts, email marketing, landing pages, webinars, multi-page promotional documents, and much more. It is a very integral role for us. The incumbent requires a quick understanding of requirements, the ability to work independently, execute professional and effective designs within deadlines. Collaborate with co-workers, stakeholders, and vendors to produce effective high-quality marketing and communication collaterals. 

If you’re an experienced, ambitious Graphic Designer who thrives in collaborative, fast-paced environments, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

  • Help A5 maintain consistent and memorable brand identity across channels and take on the role of A5’s brand guardian
  • Craft visual assets (including logo mockups and scenes) for content marketing initiatives: long-form blog posts, videos, microsites, social media posts, infographics, emails, landing pages, and more
  • Create and maintain on-brand visual marketing and corporate communications materials in digital and print format including, but not limited to, marketing collateral and ads, websites, social media, and video assets
  • Manages all aspects of the creative design process – develop concepts, creates mockups, visuals, design layouts, digital presentations, production, printing, packaging, and delivery of print and/or digital projects
  • Creates and maintains visual brand standards manuals and ensures the correct application of A5 brand standards and  guidelines across all print, web, and digital design materials
  • Provides proofreading and brand consistency checks for all materials
  • Ensures A5 meets requirements and best practices in maintaining and exceeding AODA standards for communications and information design
  • Act as webmaster for the website and all other A5 web properties, creating and designing landing pages and microsites, as required, aligned with brand design standards
  • Creates and edits promotional videos for A5, ensuring they are brand compliant and, as needed, works with external video production vendors to execute video creation
  • Develops and maintains the systematic organization of all digital files and assets, including sorting and filing of image and video libraries, ensuring that they are easily searchable and media consent permission records are kept
  • Uses current best practices, sources appropriate imagery for all creative projects (annual reports, brochures, websites, social channels, newsletters, etc.) and handles media consent permissions and licensing requests
  • Develops photography briefs and coordinates photo shoots with external vendors, as well as providing photography skills and knowledge, as needed

Desired  Qualifications: 

  • 2+ years experience in a graphic design role, ideally in a B2B tech space or agency
  • Post-Secondary degree or diploma in Graphic Design, Creative Design/Industries and/or Marketing or equivalent experience
  • Proven record of working from design briefs to deliver high-quality assets on deadline and creating multiple designs for A/B tests
  • Experienced using InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Muse, Dreamweaver, Audition, Acrobat, Sketch
  • Advanced web and digital design (WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript) skills in video creation, animation, social graphics, etc.
  • Ability to listen and respond well to feedback from other marketing team members, and work collaboratively. We are looking for a team player
  • It’s a bonus if you have experience creating beautiful animations or if you have worked on animated assets
  • Advanced web and digital design (WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript) skills in video creation, animation, social graphics, etc
  • Solid knowledge of principles of organizational branding, print production processes, design industry trends/innovations
  • Solid understanding of principles of photography for photo taking and selection
  • Ability to work on the Easter Time zone/ Pacific Time Zone
  • Believe in the values of innovate, empower, and evolve

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Salesforce Project / Engagement Manager

The Project / Engagement Manager will play a critical role in setting customers up for success by usually shaping and then leading the execution of projects. Act as the delivery expert across the portfolio of products. Develop and articulate comprehensive implementation proposals. The Project / Engagement Manager will maintain the executive relationships and act as an escalation point within these implementations, ensure tight stakeholder alignment, build relationships, and offer proactive and prescriptive advice resulting in outstanding Customer Success.

Responsibilities:

  • Able to handle customer escalations/Resolve issues/Provide Overall project Direction/Mentor Resources/Builds Relationships
  • Proactively mitigate and manage critical escalations and at-risk accounts; communicate effectively and appropriately with internal and external leaders and executives
  • Ability to manage multiple strategic clients simultaneously
  • Act as an advisor on complex issues and projects, exercising discretion and latitude in reaching project goals. Leads cross-functional teams and mentors others. 
  • Understands Salesforce ecosystem (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Communities, CPQ) and plays an advisory role for internal and external resources on overall solution architectural reviews and best practices
  • Understands customer requirements and can run discovery & design sessions, provide best practices based on experience
  • Lead the development of client-specific implementation proposals, SOWs and RFP’s
  • Looks for additional opportunities within account and upsells A5 
  • Ability to act as a Senior Solution Architect on A5 projects.
  • Hands-on role

Preferred Qualifications & Skills: 

  • 7+ years experience in delivering consulting services and team leadership
  • 3+ years’ scoping and delivering large and complex implementation projects 
  • Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills, executive level presence, and experience in working in a client advisory role
  • Demonstrated ability to influence a group audience, facilitate solutioning and lead discussions such as an implementation methodology, Road-mapping, Enterprise Transformation strategy, and executive-level requirement gathering sessions
  • Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills   

Preferred Certifications:

  • Salesforce CPQ Specialist
  • Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant
  • Salesforce Certified Administrator
  • Salesforce Service Cloud

Position: Full Time

Location: Candidates must be located in South UK, Greater London Area preferred

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Responsibilities:

  • Manage clients, resources, and project deliverables
  • Responsible for identifying and documenting business requirements
  • Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders
  • Demo technical solutions for customers and users
  • Support resolution for issues that arise in testing or production
  • Identify and deliver production enhancements related to configuration or business changes
  • Identify and communicate if solutions or requirements have gaps, are to complex, or do not match business needs
  • Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements to team members and other stakeholders such that issues and solutions are understood
  • Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes
  • Promote continuous improvement and creativity 

Qualifications: 

  • Hands-on experience in Salesforce configuration and project management
  • Experience with Sales and Service Cloud, CPQ preferred 
  • Knowledge or experience in business processes and ability to communicate business requirements to the technical team 
  • Experience defining and documenting product requirements into well-articulated deliverables
  • Ability to run requirement sessions, demos, and scrum calls
  • Experience with Flows
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in fast paced environment
  • Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
  • Excellent leadership skills 
  • Goal and detail orientated, delivers with a sense of urgency
  • Comfortable presenting to groups and demoing working software

Position: Full Time

Location: Candidates must be located in South UK, Greater London Area preferred

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Salesforce Solution Architect – Sales and Service

As a Salesforce Solution Architect, you will work directly with the project team and clients, gathering requirements to analyze, design, and/or implement Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud.  He/she should have solid functional and industry knowledge and knowledge of other Salesforce products: CPQ preferred.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide solutions leadership and best practices on the SFDC platform
  • Work with business stakeholders to understand their business processes, prioritize information needs, and translate business requirements into systems solutions
  • Document As-Is business processes, business requirements, and solution designs for Salesforce platform
  • Work with clients and end-users to gather, understand, and define business requirements
  • Work collaboratively with internal team members to design a solution that will meet the customer’s business requirements
  • Analyze, design, and configure SFDC Sales and Service solutions
  • Liaison between customer stakeholders and technical team to communicate requirements for solution design, development, testing, and implementation
  • Collaborate with developers to test and verify that solutions will meet the business requirements
  • Assist with project management, planning, and coordination of project activities

Qualifications: 

  • 3-5 years hands-on experience working on Salesforce.com implementation
  • Experience in Business Analysis, SFDC Platform Design, and Implementation
  • Exceptionally collaborative, flexible, and adaptable when working with customers and various teams
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical customers and coworkers
  • Strong organization, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems issues
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Experience defining business requirements and use cases
  • Product Selection, Bundling and Configuration Rules, Pricing and Discounting, Quote Output Generation, Contracting Process
  • Proficiency in administrative tasks such as managing permissions, page layouts, templates, approvals, workflow, products, price books, reports, and dashboards
  • Strong knowledge of Salesforce Sales Cloud and Communities and nice to have Salesforce Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud experience and certifications
  • Experience with enterprise clients

Position: Full Time

Location: Candidates must be located in South UK, Greater London Area preferred

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe, and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Salesforce Lead Consultant – Sales and Service Cloud

Responsibilities:

  • Manage clients, resources, and project deliverables
  • Responsible for identifying and documenting business requirements
  • Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders
  • Demo technical solutions for customers and users
  • Support resolution for issues that arise in testing or production
  • Identify and deliver production enhancements related to configuration or business changes
  • Identify and communicate if solutions or requirements have gaps, are to complex, or do not match business needs
  • Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements to team members and other stakeholders such that issues and solutions are understood
  • Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes
  • Promote continuous improvement and creativity

Requirements: 

  • Hands-on experience in Salesforce configuration and project management
  • Knowledge or experience in business processes and ability to communicate business requirements to the technical team
  • Experience defining and documenting product requirements into well-articulated deliverables
  • Ability to run requirement sessions, demos, and scrum calls
  • Experience with Flows
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in fast paced environment
  • Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
  • Excellent leadership skills
  • Goal and detail orientated, delivers with a sense of urgency
  • Comfortable presenting to groups and demoing working software

Position: Full Time

Location: Remote. Anywhere in the US or Canada

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe, and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Salesforce B2B Commerce Cloud Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Lead eCommerce implementations, utilizing Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2B (formerly CloudCraze), providing both oversight and hands-on contributions to the software design, development, and integration
  • Independently lead the estimation effort for a project
  • Participate in the development of conceptual and logical architectures
  • Design, develop and maintain application architectures that support client’s business requirements
  • Resolve integration and interfacing issues between various back-end systems
  • Optimize application performance and scalability
  • Assist Project Leadership conduct project risk identification and mitigation planning
  • Provide support to the sales effort on new business development pursuits, assisting with RFP responses, architecture assessments, and technical qualifications

Qualifications: 

  • Strong understanding of the Salesforce B2B Commerce Cloud with knowledge of B2C Commerce Cloud
  • Have 3+ years of experience implementing Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Position: Full Time

Location: Remote. Anywhere in the US or Canada

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe, and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as a subject matter expert on Marketing Automation and expertly communicate complex information and concepts within the space.
  • Lead and mentor more junior members of the team and assist in the distribution of workload on the larger team.
  • Lead and manage process improvement initiatives within the team.
  • Manage the lead lifecycle – implement and optimize lead scoring, qualification, and hand-off to sales processes.
  • Implement account-based marketing best practices; segment and leverage the marketing database for greater campaign efficiency, contact outreach, engagement, and effectiveness within target accounts.
  • Assist in the development, management, and optimization of martech infrastructure.
  • Proactively govern data outputs for all programs/campaigns.
  • Assist with program conceptualization, program execution, and success measurement.
  • Uncover opportunities to optimize conversion across the lead generation and sales funnel.
  • Establish, maintain, and optimize scalable marketing processes for campaign and lead generation/management.
  • A desire to create and build account-based marketing programs
  • Manage cross functional relationships with other teams to deliver operational needs within defined SLAs.
  • Responsible for daily hands-on work including template management and QA related to email builds/sends, landing pages, dynamic content, A/B tests, list imports, and database management.
  • Improve initiatives around lead targeting, A/B testing, and deliverability.
  • Understand the framework of campaigns, lead routing, list uploads, and data management between sales and marketing systems.
  • 5 Years experience in Pardot/Marketing & Pardot Certification required

Position: Full Time

Location: Remote. Anywhere in the US or Canada

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe, and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Salesforce Engagement Manager

The Engagement Manager will play a critical role in setting customers up for success by usually shaping and then leading the execution of projects. Act as the delivery expert across the portfolio of products. Develop and articulate comprehensive implementation proposals. The Engagement Manager will maintain the executive relationships and act as an escalation point within these implementations, ensure tight stakeholder alignment, build relationships, and offer proactive and prescriptive advice resulting in outstanding Customer Success.

Responsibilities:

  • Able to handle customer escalations/Resolve issues/Provide Overall project Direction/Mentor Resources/Builds Relationships
  • Proactively mitigate and manage critical escalations and at-risk accounts; communicate effectively and appropriately with internal and external leaders and executives
  • Ability to manage multiple strategic clients simultaneously
  • Act as an advisor on complex issues and projects, exercising discretion and latitude in reaching project goals. Leads cross-functional teams and mentors others. 
  • Understands Salesforce ecosystem (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Communities, CPQ) and plays an advisory role for internal and external resources on overall solution architectural reviews and best practices
  • Understands customer requirements and can run discovery & design sessions, provide best practices based on experience
  • Lead the development of client-specific implementation proposals, SOWs and RFP’s
  • Looks for additional opportunities within account and upsells A5 
  • Ability to act as a Senior Solution Architect on A5 projects.
  • Hands-on role

Preferred Qualifications & Skills: 

  • 7+ years experience in delivering consulting services and team leadership
  • 3+ years’ scoping and delivering large and complex implementation projects 
  • Preferred Certifications:
  • Salesforce CPQ Specialist
  • Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant
  • Salesforce Certified Administrator
  • Salesforce Service Cloud
  • Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills, executive level presence, and experience in working in a client advisory role
  • Demonstrated ability to influence a group audience, facilitate solutioning and lead discussions such as an implementation methodology, Road-mapping, Enterprise Transformation strategy, and executive-level requirement gathering sessions
  • Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills   

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Canada

Travel Requirement: Ability to travel 50% of the time. (Note: For now ability to travel to Washington D.C. twice a month for coming few months)

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Salesforce OR Zuora OR NetSuite Billing Architect

As a Billing Solution Architect, you are a Quote to Cash industry specialist of the highest order, with the ability to elegantly solve complex back-office billing challenges. In addition to deep technical knowledge, you also possess a strong understanding of billing processes and operations as they apply to subscriptions, order orchestration, activation, revenue recognition, invoice generation, taxation, payment processing, and general ledger (GL) processing and management.

This acumen of unique skills allows you to effectively partner and advise IT, Operations, and Finance sponsors and stakeholders involved with integrated Quote to Cash engagements (CRM, CPQ, CLM, & Billing). It also enables you to serve as a leading architect, where you will lead consultants and developers through transformational initiatives focused on delivering real and tangible business value. You are also a technology thought leader who is passionate about developing, and mentoring A5 resources regarding the optimal approaches, practices, and standards involved with highly integrated CPQ and Billing solutions.

If you’re passionate about Solution Architecture within the Quote to Cash space, enjoy crafting integrated billing solutions to and across the Salesforce ecosystem, and embrace the opportunity to implement integrated billing solutions across a national client base, we would really like to speak with you.

Responsibilities

  • The Solution Architect works closely with the project manager and Consultants and is responsible for managing the end-to-end solution design. More specifically, the Solution Architect will be responsible for the following job duties:
  • Conduct requirements gathering and analysis sessions with clients.
  • Document gathered software requirements and review the list of requirements with customers for sign-off.
  • Design and document sound functional and technical solutions, including process flows in Lucidchart and technical customizations, based on customer requirements. Work with the customer to get sign-off.
  • Configure and test Salesforce or Zuora or NetSuite Billing, Revenue, and Add-On products to meet the approved designs.
  • Perform testing of end-to-end solutions in conjunction with the development team and customer.
  • Create and develop training materials and conduct/deliver end-user training to customers.
  • Support the customer with regular calls to answer functional and technical questions.

Qualifications

  • Must have at least 6-10 years of enterprise-level experience, within a professional services organization, as a Solution Architect and/or Senior Business Consultant with a leading technology consulting company, delivering moderate to complex ERP, billing and/or salesforce.com solutions (Force.com platform a plus).
  • Demonstrated leadership abilities to lead business discussions with customers and architect the value of our solution and the best practices to implement it.
  • Experience in requirements gathering, use case documentation, business analysis, systems design and integration, user interface design, and implementation.
  • Experience in data analysis, conversion, and migration, interfaces, and reports.
  • Experience with gap analysis and blueprint development.
  • Experience with system design using configuration and/or customization, integration, testing, and support.
  • Experience in delivering end-to-end solutions through the entire SDLC – right from running the client-facing workshops, design, build, test, deployment, UAT, and handover.
  • Experience in Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
  • Must be a strong team player with excellent communication skills at the business and technical level, able to collaborate as part of a team to deliver exceptional customer results in a rapid-paced implementation environment.
  • Experience managing tasks on multiple projects simultaneously.

Position Type: Full Time

Location: Remote

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe, and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Salesforce Sr. Architect Sales/Service Cloud

Work directly with the project team and clients gathering requirements to analyze, design and/or implement various business requirements. The role should not only administer the core strategies and tactics of a CRM driving enhancements, but also be able to identify and proactively recommend process improvements, anticipate needs, and develop foresight through tools and automation. The candidate must have hands-on administration and configuration skills with the latest Salesforce.com releases, the ability to handle first-level user support/training requests. He/she should have solid functional, technical and industry knowledge of salesforce products: Sales Cloud and Service Cloud

Required Certifications:

  • Salesforce Administrator
  • Sales Cloud Consultant
  • Service Cloud Consultant
  • Experience/Community Cloud Consultant (nice to have)
  • Field Service Lightning Consultants (nice to have)

Responsibilities:

  • Provide functional-technical leadership and best practices on the SFDC platform.
  • Work with business stakeholders to understand their business processes, prioritize information needs, and translate business requirements into systems solutions.
  • Document As-Is business processes, business requirements and solution designs for Salesforce platform.
  • Work with clients and end users to gather, understand, and define business requirements.
  • Work collaboratively with internal team members to design a solution that will meet the customer’s business requirements. Configure Sales Cloud, Service Cloud. Nice to have: Experience Cloud/Communities – includes partner onboarding, enablement, reporting and Field Service Lightning
  • Perform Salesforce.com user administration tasks, including access management, permission sets, roles assignments, uploads, data backups, etc.
  • Make recommendations to improve efficiencies through development and adoption of best practices and standardized procedures
  • Provide first level support to the sales, marketing, sales operations and customer operations teams, including issue identification and issue resolution/escalation
  • Assist with ad hoc reporting requests and optimize user experience related to reports and dashboards
  • Design and implement custom objects and advanced functionality, based on strategic initiatives and project roadmap. Build integrations with other third-party applications

Requirements & Qualifications:

  • Experience in Business Analysis, SFDC Platform Design and Implementations
  • Exceptionally collaborative, flexible and adaptable when working with customers and various teams
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical customers and coworkers
  • Strong organization, communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong analysis skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems issues.
  • Experience defining business requirements and use cases
  • 5+ Years hands on experience working on salesforce.com implementation
  • Proficiency in sales cloud, service cloud. Expertise preferred in experience cloud/communities and FSL.

Job Type: Full-time

Position: Full Time

Location: Remote. Any where in the US or Canada

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe, and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Salesforce B2B Commerce Cloud Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Lead eCommerce implementations, utilizing Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2B (formerly CloudCraze), providing both oversight and hands-on contributions to the software design, development, and integration
  • Independently lead the estimation effort for a project
  • Participate in the development of conceptual and logical architectures
  • Design, develop and maintain application architectures that support client’s business requirements
  • Resolve integration and interfacing issues between various back-end systems
  • Optimize application performance and scalability
  • Assist Project Leadership conduct project risk identification and mitigation planning
  • Provide support to the sales effort on new business development pursuits, assisting with RFP responses, architecture assessments, and technical qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Strong understanding of the Salesforce B2B Commerce Cloud with knowledge of B2C Commerce Cloud
  • Have 3+ years of experience implementing Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Position: Full Time

Location: Remote. Any where in the US or Canada

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe, and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Senior Salesforce Technical BA

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with internal and external teams on offer delivery project.
  • Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing groups and stakeholder requirements responsibilities.
  • Develop plans and accurate estimates for the completion of requirements.
  • Manage risks, assumptions, and constraints for requirements, and communicate to stakeholders.
  • Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review.
  • Prepare user stories and groom backlog with appropriate acceptance criteria.
  • Prepare documents like wireframes, design flow, UI, etc. when required.
  • Closely work with the product owner to prioritize user stories, and actively participate in sprints and sprint planning sessions.
  • Recommend business solutions that satisfy sponsor/stakeholder needs while continuously exploring and assessing options for value-add for clients.
  • Prepare, coordinate, execute, and track UAT test plans and test cases and PIV test plans and test cases.
  • Prepare and deliver presentations to business partners to facilitate decision making, scope confirmation, and acceptance of user stories.
  • Provide feedback on the quality of deliverables and escalate quality issues.
  • Work with other team members (QA & developers) to fix and re-test defects.
  • Prepare user guides and presentations for new and existing system capabilities and keep all documentation up to date.

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years experience as a BA/BSA.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (minimum).
  • A proven ability to gather business and systems requirements independently.
  • Strong business analysis and systems analysis skills.
  • Strong knowledge of requirements methodology (planning, elicitation, and documentation).
  • Experience in requirements analysis and quality documentation: Use Cases, Data Requirements, Business Rules Analysis, Non-Functional Requirements, User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping, Wireframes, Acceptance, and Evaluation Criteria Definition.
  • Excellent collaboration skills and attention to detail.
  • Experience working on large projects.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills (will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders).
  • Team player with a track record of collaboration and experience working as part of an agile team.
  • Experience in test case design and test execution.
  • Experience in Salesforce technologies (Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud) preferred.
  • Experience and knowledge of SQL preferred.

This is a remote position. Onsite (Toronto, Canada) after COVID restrictions.

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the ecosystem with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe, and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

Responsibilities:

  • Experienced in Salesforce Solution Architecture, with a focus on Marketing Cloud.
  • Salesforce Consulting experience with a proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes leveraging Marketing Cloud in a cross-cloud architecture.
  • Ability to work independently and be a self-starter.
  • Hands-on experience in Marketing Cloud including but not limited to; All Studios & Builders w/ emphasis on Email Studio, Mobile Studio, Content Builder, Journey Builder, Contact Builder, Audience Builder, Automation Studio, & Dynamic Content Areas.
  • Marketing Cloud development with AMPscript, SQL, REST/SOAP based API, and database/SFTP connectors (Nice to have)
  • Communicate with project managers, clients, and other developers to design cohesive project strategies and ensure effective collaboration throughout all phases of development, testing, and deployment

Qualifications:

  • Strong understanding of the Salesforce Marketing, Sales, Service and Financial Service Clouds
  • Have 3+ years of experience on the SFMC platform in email, SMS and push notifications.
  • Experience with AMPScript and Javascript.
  • Have experience with SFMC Journey Builder, Audience Builder, Automation Studio & Dynamic Content Areas
  • Advanced knowledge of architecture, design and business processes
  • Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals

Nice to Have:

  • Experience in Datorama, Interaction Studio, GA360 Integration, Ad Studio, and Tableau.
  • Hand-on configuration experience in PRM and Health Cloud.
  • Certifications: SF Admin, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, Marketing Cloud Admin, Marketing Cloud Consultant.

Position: Full Time

Location: Remote. Any where in the US or Canada

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 guides businesses through their Digital Transformation journey with a focus on Campaign-to-Revenue. As a leading solutions provider and systems implementer, we modernize business processes through our strategic methodology using industry-leading Salesforce platform and backend ERP integrations. We are one of the very few partners in the eco system with Salesforce Ventures investment and are also proud to be part of the Salesforce partner advisory board. A5 has employees across North America, Europe and India.

Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!

We are looking for Salesforce Revenue Cloud (CPQ & Billing) Solution Architects / Lead

A Salesforce CPQ & Billing Solution Architect / Revenue Cloud Solution Architect would work directly with the project team and clients, gathering requirements to analyze, design and/or implement SFDC CPQ. He/she should have solid functional and industry knowledge and knowledge of other Salesforce products: Sales Cloud and Communities is required. Service Cloud and or Marketing Cloud are nice to have.

As a Salesforce CPQ & Billing Solution Architect / Lead your role will include:

  • Provide solutions leadership and best practices on the SFDC CPQ platform
  • Work with business stakeholders to understand their business processes, prioritize information needs, and translate business requirements into systems solutions
  • Document As-Is business processes, business requirements, and solution designs for Salesforce platform
  • Work with clients and end-users to gather, understand, and define business requirements
  • Work collaboratively with internal team members to design a solution that will meet the customer’s business requirements
  • Analyze, design, and configure SFDC CPQ & Billing solutions
  • Liaison between customer stakeholders and Sovereign CRM development/technical team to communicate requirements for solution design, development, testing, and implementation
  • Collaborate with developers to test and verify that solutions will meet the business requirements
  • Assist with project management, planning, and coordination of project activities

Required Qualifications:

  • Experience in Business Analysis, SFDC Platform Design, and Implementations
  • Exceptionally collaborative, flexible and adaptable when working with customers and various team
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical customers and coworker
  • Strong organization, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems issues.
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Experience defining business requirements and use cases
  • 3-5 Years hands-on experience working on salesforce.com implementation
  • Product Selection, Bundling and Configuration Rules, Pricing and Discounting, Quote Output Generation, Contracting Process
  • Proficiency in administrative tasks such as managing permissions, page layouts, templates, approvals, workflow, products, price books, reports, and dashboards.
  • Strong Knowledge of Salesforce Sales Cloud and Communities and nice to have Salesforce Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud experience and certification
  • Experience with enterprise clients 
  • Ideal Candidate would also have prior experience implementing Billing and has Advanced Billing Specialist Super Badge
  • Ability to work during customer time zones (EST, CST or PST)

Location: Remote. Anywhere in the US or Canada

Travel: As needed (After COVID and related restrictions and safety measures)

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

As a Billing Solution Architect, you are a Quote to Cash industry specialist of the highest order, with the ability to elegantly solve complex back-office billing challenges. In addition to deep technical knowledge, you also possess a strong understanding of billing processes and operations as they apply to subscriptions, order orchestration, activation, revenue recognition, invoice generation, taxation, payment processing, and general ledger (GL) processing and management.

This acumen of unique skills allows you to effectively partner and advise IT, Operations, and Finance sponsors and stakeholders involved with integrated Quote to Cash engagements (CRM, CPQ, CLM, & Billing). It also enables you to serve as a leading architect, where you will lead consultants and developers through transformational initiatives focused on delivering real and tangible business value. You are also a technology thought leader who is passionate about developing, and mentoring A5 resources regarding the optimal approaches, practices, and standards involved with highly integrated CPQ and Billing solutions.

If you’re passionate about Solution Architecture within the Quote to Cash space, enjoy crafting integrated billing solutions to and across the Salesforce ecosystem, and embrace the opportunity to implement integrated billing solutions across a national client base, we would really like to speak with you.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a role model, thought leader, and industry-leading practitioner for integrated CPQ and Billing Solutions & Services – constantly driving for professional growth and evolution
• Provide sales support and assist in scoping and shaping technical solutions as they pertain to A5 integrated CPQ & Billing proposals and SOWs
• Work as a Solution Architect and core project team member to provide vision and guidance to A5 and customer technical teams throughout the project lifecycle
• Lead the technology track of billing-centric Quote to Cash transformational projects including the planning and facilitation of discovery sessions, crafting enterprise solution design, conducting build orchestration, and steering teams through quality assurance planning and remediation.
• Provide hands-on direction and support to A5 consultants and developers chartered to construct the integrated CPQ and Billing solution being developed and delivered to the customer
• Work in conjunction with the A5 Center of Excellence throughout an engagement to ensure methods and standards are employed to drive high-quality solution design and delivery
• Regularly advise customer executive sponsors and stakeholders regarding the design, development, and operation of the integrated CPQ and Billing solution as it pertains to critical business and technical objectives.
• Foster and grow prosperous customer relationships with technical advocates and key decision-makers throughout an engagement to help facilitate follow-on business opportunity, references, and testimonials, as well as high ranking CSAT scores and client success stories
• Cultivate leading standards and practices for Integrated Billing Solutions for A5, including engagement approaches, methodologies, job aids, and engagement toolkits
• Embrace, live, and regularly demonstrate the practice of A5 values
• Provide support for interviewing, hiring, onboarding and technical resources to engage with A5 clients and teams

Desired Qualifications

• Comfortable leading and collaborating across multiple implementations simultaneously
• Strong leadership, communication, and political acumen, with a demonstrated professional track record of managing technical teams through ambiguous client environments and challenging transformational programs
• At least 5+ years of experience working as a technology leader and/or solution architect for a successful consulting and/or professional services company, with 5+ years at the enterprise level
• At least 5+ years of experience leading successful integrated SaaS-based CPQ & Billing implementations
• Salesforce Billing & Advanced Billing Specialist Superbadges
• At least 5+ years’ experience with the Quote to Cash process (CPQ, Billing)
• 5+ year history working as a technologist within the Salesforce ecosystem and/or other market-leading SaaS-based billing systems such as NetSuite, Zuora, GoTransverse, Zone Billing, Intacct, FinancialForce, Aria, Billing Platform, SAP and Oracle
• 5+ years of experience with common billing processes and operations practices such as product and pricing models, subscriptions, usage, invoicing, bill cycles and processing, payments, customer disputes, and adjustments, AR, taxation, collections, and revenue recognition including customer transitions
• 3-5 years of exposure and experience regarding payment processing standards and technologies, such as PCI compliance, tokenization, and ACH
• Demonstrated business acumen, with a good command of P&L concepts and a basic understanding of financial management and accounting practices

Position Type: Full Time

Location: Remote

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 is looking to hire experienced Salesforce Architects familiar with CPQ & Billing and FSL. Ideal resource will have 6-8 years consulting experience and at least 4 years experience implementing Salesforce CPQ & Billing and FSL.

Key Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers and project teams, designing advanced and integrated solutions to enable client success
• Partnering with sales and partners in pre-sales activities, presenting A5’s capabilities and creating clear deliverables and innovative solutions on the
Salesforce platform in an organized SOW
• Demonstrate leadership and technical expertise by presenting custom solutions based on the Salesforce platform and ecosystem
• Provide product and technical expertise when scoping out a project and deliverables including estimation of work efforts and skill sets for each phase of the project.
• Managing client and project team expectations, review solution architecture to ensure they adhere to the best practices and meet customer implementation needs
• Provide support as a primary POC and resident expert; assist in the development of reusable assets
• Participate and lead internal and external learning and sharing activities, including conferences and technical presentations.
• A demonstrable growth mindset, enthusiastic about learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems.
• Maintaining and developing relationships with key partners, clients, and industry contacts

Key Requirements

• Significant experience of Salesforce, in a sales and delivery-focused role.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce products and relationships in the ecosystem
• Ability to communicate with clients on a business level and translate their business needs into a technical and functional solution.
• Experience designing and implementing technology solutions across different industry sectors.
• Experience collaborating across multiple functional/technical teams to deliver a project.
• Experience working on Agile projects.
• Experience in integration of other systems to the Salesforce platform (large-scale data migration is a plus)
• Strong willingness to progress and adapt within a fast-paced business and influence others to maintain course/ pace

Location: Multiple locations available.

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

A5 is looking for a Salesforce Marketing Cloud Developer to work alongside product owners, technical leads, and other key stakeholders at our clients to implement the technical requirements of marketing objectives.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be implementing new marketing initiatives, collaborating on new technical and optimization strategies, and supporting the technical facilitation of marketing efforts in a multi-org environment all the while maintaining top-quality and performance.

Qualifications:

  • B.S. degree in Computer Science or related technical field with equivalent practical experience
  • 3+ years experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, 5+ preferred.

Must-have:

Hard Skills

  • An advanced user of Salesforce Marketing Cloud with 3+ years of experience; one or more of:
    • Certified Salesforce Marketing Cloud Developer
    • Certified Salesforce Marketing Cloud Consultant
    • Certified Salesforce Sales and Service Administrator
  • Demonstrated proficiencies within environment applications, particularly with Automation Studio, Journey Builder, and Email Studio.
  • Advanced knowledge of APIs, both REST & SOAP
  • Proficient with SQL, SSJS, and AMPScript
  • Experience in Web programming (e.g. JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML)
  • Establish the root causes of issues and identify them, rather than simply addressing the symptoms
  • A champion of native solutions approaches and best practices
  • Experience with technical integration solutions involving Salesforce Marketing Cloud and other platforms (e.g. Marketing Cloud Connect, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Heroku, MuleSoft, Customer 360, Evergage, Facebook, etc.)
  • Contribute to the development of solution documentation
  • Collaborate with product owners, technical leads, and stakeholders to define and implement new functionalities and product capabilities within Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Soft Skills:

  • Experience leading business development efforts, including fostering professional relationships in the industry and providing constructive, critical feedback to technical approaches
  • Advise stakeholders in relevant technical issues for their business area
  • Navigate the complexities of a highly sophisticated Marketing Cloud environment, identifying, communicating, and championing areas requiring optimization
  • Work with owners, stakeholders, and leads to elicit, understand, evaluate, and QA business and technical requirements to ensure the accurate and efficient collection of relevant information
  • Participate in key meetings with owners and stakeholders, including requirement sessions and system demos
  • Guide key stakeholders in the appropriate clarification and validation of contributions and accurately fixing and maintaining version control to ensure the quality of information remains intact
  • Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, or other Team Collaboration software
  • Previous experience working as an active member on agile teams
  • An expert user within the Microsoft Office Suite
  • Strong presentation, communication (written and verbal) skills, and interpersonal skills
  • Detail-oriented individual with the ability to quickly ramp up on new projects
  • Proven ability to use analytical and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to balance and prioritize numerous tasks within a collaborative team environment
  • Ability to work independent
  • Self-motivated, high-energy, and flexible performer who can thrive in a fast-paced environment

Location: Toronto – Remote

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

As a Salesforce Project Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team to create, enhance and support products for a large financial institution. The Project Lead is the main point of contact for the Client, and is responsible for drafting requirements, creating and maintaining documentation, directing the development team, configuration in the systems, and triaging and supporting production issues.
Knowledge of Salesforce, as well as financial business processes, is required.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage clients, resources, and project deliverables
  • Identify business requirement
  • Write and groom user stories with the business and engineering team to ensure the software requirements are satisfied
  • Collaborate with software engineers and software architects to breakdown business needs into software requirements
  • Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders, have a clear understanding of strategic business requirements as well as deliver the following artifacts as needed
  • Demo technical solutions for customers and users
  • Lead the A5 team and work with the client to complete release planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming
  • Support resolution for issues that arise in testing or production
  • Identify and deliver production enhancements related to configuration or business changes.
  • Promote continuous improvement and creativity

Minimum Requirements:

  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in Salesforce configuration and project management
  • Knowledge of Financial services business processes. Priority will be given to candidates with direct experience with Financial Services companies
  • 3 years of Project Management experience
  • 3 years of experience defining and documenting product requirements into small, well-articulated deliverables
  • 2 years experience with managing Enterprise-class clients (Fortune 500), in new implementations, enhancements, and ongoing production support.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Excellent written and face-to-face communicator
  • Prepared, self-directed, organized and responsible
  • Collaborative and humble decision-maker
  • Good at sorting through ambiguity
  • Comfortable presenting to groups and demoing working software
  • Goal and detail orientated, delivers with a sense of urgency

Location: Toronto – Remote

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

Hours: Full-time: Forty hours per week

Work site: 4900 Hopyard Road, Suite 100, Pleasanton, CA 94588 May work at various unanticipated locations throughout the US.

Job Duties:

  • Design, develop and deploy technical solutions and applications that optimize the value that clients may derive from their Salesforce systems.
  • Contribute to process and functional design activities. Create functional requirements as an input to technical application design.
  • Develop and test detailed functional designs for business solution components and prototypes.
  • Plan and execute data conversion activities such as test data.
  • Implement test planning and execution.
  • Support application build, test and deploy activities for data integration, application configuration and reporting configuration of software integration.

Minimum Education/Experience:  Master Degree or foreign equivalent in CS/MIS/CIS/CE/ Telecommunications or Related and one year of related experience.

If you think you are a good fit, email your resumes at careers@a5corp.com

Satch Patel, Executive Vice President, MD, UK & EMEA

Satch brings 25+yrs of enterprise global solution experience having contributed to the growth of some of the worlds largest marquee software and hardware giants in the industry from Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Cisco/EMC, to Apttus & Salesforce.
 
Satch has helped many blue chip organisations realise their vision to modernize their systems from the front office to back office revenue operations to meet the demands of today’s radically transforming and digitally-driven business models, having worked with the likes of Linklaters, CliffordChance, Barclays, RELX Group, Microfocus, Novartis, Siemens, PayPal, Vista Equity Group Companies, London Stock Exchange, TPICAP and Princes Trust.
 
With his leadership approach, experience and passion for helping companies drive transformative change, Satch has a deep expertise in many industries, technologies and best practices across the lead to revenue lifecycle and how driving such digital transformation(s) can improve business growth and increase operational efficiencies  as well as preparing businesses for M&A activities.

Brion Schweers, Board Observer

Brion Schweers is a Senior Vice President of Product Management at Salesforce, currently managing the Revenue Cloud Solution Excellence team. During the past 30 years, Brion has assisted enterprises around the world in transforming their business by focusing on their Product-to-Cash processes. Prior to joining Salesforce Brion was VP & GM, CPQ at Apttus, VP, Sales & Success at A5 Consulting, served on the OAUG ConfigSIG Board and spent 15 years at Oracle in various roles related to their CX and CPQ products. Brion is also the executive Sponsor of Vetforce – Carolinas and is actively involved in the Salesforce Military program where he mentors Veterans and their spouses with actionable, personalized career advice.

Joseph Truhe, Board Member

Joseph Truhe has over 20 years of investing experience. Prior to joining Jefferson Capital in 2013 Joseph was a Portfolio Manager with Whitney Bank in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he oversaw the company’s Trust accounts and served as the Energy sector analyst for the Hancock Horizon Funds. Prior to Whitney, Joseph worked as an analyst and member of the investment committee at HFR Asset Management, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund platform in Chicago, Illinois. There, Joseph reviewed and maintained investment discretion over the firm’s Event Driven and Asia-focused hedge fund allocations. He was also responsible for the expansion of the firm’s Asia-focused fund offerings.  Joseph holds a BA in Economics from Yale University.

Steve Swartzman, Board Member

Steve Swartzman is a Principal and co-founder of CPC. Previously, as a co-founder of C3 Capital, he helped originate and manage over 35 investments, including national brands such as American Apparel, Traeger Grills, and Grunt Style. Steve’s chief focus remains consumer brands and e-commerce enablement businesses, and he currently serves on the boards of Grunt Style, Accel Clinical Research, Spoke Custom Products, Warne Scope Mounts, and New World Natural Brands.

Prior to C3, Steve structured and managed subordinated debt investments at KC Venture Group, and he spent 7 years as a Vice President with Citibank in New York, managing client relationships for emerging markets clients and structuring over $1 billion in complex trade financings. He is a past President of the Midwest chapter of the Small Business Investment Alliance, and he serves on the board of the International Center for Music at Park University in Kansas City.

Steve received a MBA from Columbia Business School and an AB in History and Literature from Harvard College.

He resides in Kansas City, where he was raised, with his wife Evelina and two sons, Harrison and Zandy. When he’s not working, his favorite activities are fishing, golfing, and eating.

Charles Scripps, Board Member

Chad has over ten years of experience investing in dynamic, growing businesses in diverse industries and geographies. His private equity experience includes HIG Capital, which has over $12B in capital under management, and AEA Investors, which manages over $3B of invested and committed capital. While at HIG and AEA, Chad led diligence, structuring, and financial analysis of potential and existing investments, and completed transactions in the industrial products and consumer services industries. Chad also has experience investing in the public equity markets, most notably as a Managing Director at Fox Point Capital, a $1B fund seeded by Julian Robertson of Tiger Management. He invested across a number of industries, including industrials, financials, technology, and consumer products, and led Fox Point’s international research. Prior to focusing his career on investing, Chad was a management consultant at McKinsey and Company, solving strategic problems for the world’s leading companies. Chad earned an MBA with Honors in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS with Distinction in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lester F. Alexander II, Board Member

Les Alexander is a partner with Jefferson Capital Partners where he provides mezzanine and equity capital for growth and buyout transactions. Mr. Alexander is a member of the firm’s investment committee and serves on the board of directors of several portfolio companies where he is actively involved in strategic planning and corporate governance. Prior to joining Jefferson Capital, he worked at Advantage Capital Partners where he completed several portfolio company investments and served on the investment committee. Before becoming a private equity investor, Mr. Alexander served as president of Ferrara Fire Apparatus, Inc., a leading fire truck and emergency vehicle manufacturer. At Ferrara, he was responsible for managing a workforce of 450 employees producing over 300 vehicles annually for its domestic and international customers. As an investment banker for 15 years with such firms as Howard Weil, Southcoast Capital, and J.C. Bradford & Co., Mr. Alexander completed over 50 public offerings of debt and equity securities, private placements, and merger and acquisition transactions totaling more than $7 billion for public and private companies in a variety of industries. Mr. Alexander is an adjunct professor at Tulane University and Loyola University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in investment banking, private equity & venture capital, advanced financial management, investments, and entrepreneurship. He is also the board president for Benjamin Franklin High School, a public charter school in New Orleans. Mr. Alexander is the former Chairman Finance of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and served on the global Board of Directors. He is a founder of the Louisiana chapter of ACG and was a recipient of the ACG global Meritorious Service Award and the Louisiana chapter’s Outstanding Service Award. Mr. Alexander received his bachelor of science in Commerce from the University of Virginia in 1989 and his MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1993.

Patrick F. Healy, Board Member

Based in Kansas City, Mr. Healy is a co-founder of C3 Capital. He has been an active private equity investor since 1985 and was a co-founder of C3 Holdings in 1994. Prior to this time, he sponsored and structured equity investments in real estate. He gained extensive workout and restructuring experience as chair of the creditor’s committee of a $1 billion bankruptcy and from being called upon to rescue a publicly-traded company from a major fraud. Mr. Healy was a senior tax partner at Mayer Hoffman McCann, a regional CPA firm, for eleven years. He received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Kansas.

Chris Waters, VP of Strategic Sales

As Vice President of Strategic Sales, Chris guides and influences all strategic sales activities at A5 , starting in presales activities, successful sales methodology, sales process, and continued revenue generation and expansion opportunities. Furthermore, he will provide oversight in strategic sales function for the company and develop strategic sales plans that will promote growth in sales and customer satisfaction. Chris has proven his commitment to sales leadership and organizational success through field leadership as National Sales Manager at Deluxe Corporation, Field Sales Manager within the Social / Analytics Cloud at Oracle, US Regional Manager for CPQ Major Accounts at Oracle and now as Vice President on Sr. Leadership Team at A5.

Keith Fox, GM Salesforce Canada

Keith Fox is a software and consulting veteran for the past 34 years. Keith started his career at EDS which was followed by 4-year stint offshore in Bermuda. Keith then returned to Canada where he held a number of progressive sales and technical positions with software companies such as Sybase, BEA, and Oracle. After his stint with Oracle, Keith founded Cloudware Connections, a premier Salesforce consulting partner. 11 years down the line, Cloudware was acquired by A5, and Keith joined as GM for Canada.

Tarun Sharma, Vice President Delivery

Tarun Sharma is Vice President Delivery at A5 and is responsible for customer success, project operations, recruitment, resource utilization, and sales operations functions for Oracle practice. As a business and technology leader Tarun helps businesses develop solution strategies to streamline the sales process and improve customer relations to drive revenues, profits, and build brand loyalty. Tarun has led customers through digital transformation journeys. He has commanded strategic and tactical initiatives to shorten sales cycles, increase deal values and productivity, improve brand awareness and help organizations become easier to do business with. He has helped customers modernize their sales enablement tools and present a single source of information to support an omni-channel sales approach. This includes global roll-out for multiple business units included multi-currency and multi-language. Tarun graduated from Texas A&M University with a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering.

Adam Rosenfield, VP of Salesforce Practice

As Vice President of A5’s consulting practice – Adam is responsible for both strategic alliances with partners and expanded sales growth through the entire portfolio of A5 services. With over 20 years of Sr. level management consulting expertise – Adam has worn multiple hats in his career including practice development, sales, and client advisory. He has sold & delivered countless enterprise transformational initiatives creating a measurable competitive advantage for his customers. In addition to various technical software certifications, Adam holds an undergraduate and master’s degree in Accounting & Information Technology from the University of Texas at Austin and resides in El Paso Texas with his wife and 3 children.

PJ Alfrejd, CFO

As the CFO, PJ is responsible for all things financial at A5. With over 20 years of experience in financial leadership positions, PJ has worn all the hats required of a growing tech business. His extensive knowledge of the consulting industry, experience with M&A, and strength in operational finance is another catalyst to take A5 to the next level in its growth trajectory. PJ is a CPA with a BS in Accounting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has held various finance leadership positions at Exodus/Savvis (acquired by Centurylink), Neohapsis (acquired by Cisco), and mFoundry (acquired by FIS).

Vinay Kruttiventi, President & CEO / Chairman of the Board

As the CEO of A5, Vinay plays an active role in all aspects of day-to-day business operations. He is also actively involved in establishing a strategy and vision for the company. As a true customer advocate with Salesforce and Oracle product development, Vinay is actively engaged in various industry user/special interest groups. Since founding the company in 2004, Vinay has grown the business into a leading Salesforce, and Oracle partner focused on multi-cloud transformations.

Vinay has successfully implemented and architected CPQ solutions and multi-cloud complex transformation projects for various Fortune 500 companies since 1996. He has a strong authority over industry, process, and technology in Configure-Price-Quote and ERP applications. Vinay graduated from Osmania University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree and JNTU (Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University) with a Master in Technology degree.