Technical Account Director

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · Chicago, IL +2 · Remote

This role is for a Technical Account Director at Adobe, focusing on customer success and technical strategy for Adobe's Digital Experience Solutions. The candidate will act as the technical executive point of contact, providing strategic mentorship, assessing risks, driving alignment, and advocating for customers internally. The role requires extensive experience in consultative customer support within marketing technology, strong customer-facing and executive presence skills, and the ability to lead matrixed teams and drive resolution across various technical and business challenges. Familiarity with Adobe's digital experience products is essential.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead Ultimate Success engagements as the technical executive point of contact throughout the solution usage lifecycle.
  2. Provide strategic mentorship and support the technical strategy with Adobe Solutions to drive value.
  3. Assess and mitigate strategic customer technical risks and opportunities.
  4. Ensure clear communication with customers and maintain governance with internal/external executive teams.
  5. Drive alignment and reporting on engagement status and outcomes.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in related subject area of the technical industry or equivalent experience
  • 10-15 years of experience in a senior consultative, customer support, customer success, or related role in marketing technology
  • Strong customer facing skills
  • Executive presence
  • Presentation skills
  • Ability to collaborate with multiple teams (internal Adobe and client VPs/CMOs/CXOs)
  • Proven track record leading customer facing meetings, workshops, and reviews
  • Strong conflict-resolution skills
  • Ability to prioritize work against client goals
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Prioritization skills
  • Ability to work independently in a highly matrixed environment
  • Ability to drive resolution across technical, architecture, business process, and partnerships
  • Strategic thinking about business, product, and technical challenges
  • Experience and familiarity with Adobe digital experience products (AEM/AEP/CJA/AJO etc.)

Nice to have

  • Up to 25% travel required

What the JD emphasized

  • 10-15 year proven experience in a senior consultative, customer support, customer success or a related role in marketing technology.
  • Strong customer facing skills, executive presence and presentation skills.
  • Proven track record leading customer facing meetings, workshops, and reviews.
  • Strong conflict-resolution skills to drive closure to customer concerns and open technical issues.
  • Maintain strong ability to prioritize work against client goals.
  • Validated interpersonal, prioritization skills and an ability to work independently in a highly matrixed environment.
  • Drive resolution across a broad set of issues with including technical, architecture, business process, and partnerships.
  • Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges to help our customers realize the software investment, efficiencies, advantages, and innovations.
  • Experience and familiarity with Adobe digital experience products (AEM/AEP/CJA/AJO etc.).