Technical Account Manager

Braze Braze · Enterprise · New York, NY · Customer Experience

Technical Account Manager responsible for the ongoing technical relationship and lifecycle of enterprise customers, acting as a trusted technical advisor to help them unlock value and drive adoption of the Braze platform. This role involves understanding customer needs, recommending solutions, and ensuring technical success through effective communication and project management.

What you'd actually do

  1. You’ll be responsible for client success, partnering with the Customer Success Team to own the technical relationship for your assigned accounts and help drive technical adoption, accelerated technical value, and continued technical maturity
  2. Help customers successfully instrument Braze across their stack and refine that instrumentation over time as their use of Braze matures and becomes even more valuable, which in turn contributes to renewals and upsells
  3. Facilitate conversations regarding the customers’ desired use case, conducting discovery, and recommending solutions based on their unique needs and architecture
  4. Support and advocate for day-to-day inquiries and requests to support optimization and value through the customer lifecycle
  5. Empower customer product and engineering teams to use our product as independently and efficiently as possible, communicating with customers and internal teams to explain products and solutions by delivering enablement and education

Skills

Required

  • 3-5 years client-facing experience as a TAM or in a related technical area such in Implementation, Technical Support, or Solutions Architecture, for a product offering serving Enterprise/Strategic accounts
  • 3+ years of technical experience in managing complex customer environments with strong product command and technical knowledge of two or more of the following: SaaS, Mobile, API, or Programming
  • excellent communicator (written and verbal skills)
  • demonstrable customer communication and coordination efforts
  • ability to take complex technical ideas and translate them to non-technical stakeholders
  • natural problem solver
  • high level of intellectual curiosity
  • work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, and collaborative environment

Nice to have

  • bilingual skills beyond English that facilitate us talking with our global customer base in their native language

What the JD emphasized

  • own the ongoing technical relationship through the entire lifecycle of customers in your portfolio
  • trusted technical advisor
  • unlock value from their use of the Braze platform
  • drive value, retention, and adoption of Braze’s product through the customer lifecycle
  • technical counterpart between Braze and your client’s product and engineering team
  • understanding your customer's needs
  • proactively driving forward technical initiatives
  • achieve their business goals
  • manage a portfolio of named accounts, typically in the Enterprise and Strategic classification of accounts
  • enterprise organizational structures and architectures, posing unique geographical, scale, and complexity challenges
  • product and implementation expert
  • business analyst
  • problem solver
  • customer success professional
  • high level of product and technical competence
  • delivering high-impact engagements that drive tangible outcomes
  • some of Braze’s most advanced customers
  • own the technical relationship for your assigned accounts
  • help drive technical adoption, accelerated technical value, and continued technical maturity
  • successfully instrument Braze across their stack
  • refine that instrumentation over time
  • use of Braze matures and becomes even more valuable
  • contributes to renewals and upsells
  • Facilitate conversations regarding the customers’ desired use case
  • conducting discovery
  • recommending solutions based on their unique needs and architecture
  • Support and advocate for day-to-day inquiries and requests
  • support optimization and value through the customer lifecycle
  • Empower customer product and engineering teams to use our product as independently and efficiently as possible
  • communicating with customers and internal teams to explain products and solutions
  • delivering enablement and education
  • Adopt governance practices
  • creating solutions documentation
  • building architectural diagrams
  • drive progress against key technical work streams through project management
  • Instill best practice and engineering excellence amongst your customer portfolio
  • validating product use cases
  • technical feasibility for product launch
  • translating the customers’ unique requirements to Braze’s Product team
  • 3-5 years client-facing experience
  • TAM or in a related technical area
  • Implementation, Technical Support, or Solutions Architecture
  • product offering serving Enterprise/Strategic accounts
  • 3+ years of technical experience
  • managing complex customer environments
  • strong product command
  • technical knowledge of two or more of the following: SaaS, Mobile, API, or Programming
  • excellent communicator (written and verbal skills)
  • demonstrable customer communication and coordination efforts
  • ability to take complex technical ideas and translate them to non-technical stakeholders
  • natural problem solver
  • high level of intellectual curiosity
  • love working amongst a team to solve those problems
  • able to maintain a high level of productivity
  • manage multiple competing priorities
  • work effectively under the pressure of time constraints
  • fast-paced, complex, and collaborative environment