Technical Account Manager - Enterprise

Plaid Plaid · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · All Cost Centers

Technical Account Manager at Plaid, a fintech company, focusing on enterprise clients. The role involves providing strategic and technical guidance to customers, ensuring their success with Plaid's solutions, managing customer relationships, and translating customer feedback into product insights. Requires deep understanding of APIs, databases, and system infrastructures.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with Plaid’s most strategic customers in the Enterprise segment and collaborate as a technical expert on leveraging Plaid to accomplish their business + technical goals and objectives.
  2. Own the post-sales technical strategy and alignment with customers, ensuring our mutual roadmaps are understood and communicated.
  3. Proactively identify opportunities to optimize customer integrations and drive adoption of Plaid’s newest technical features and requirements, aligning each to measurable customer outcomes (e.g., increased conversion, error reduction, expanded coverage).
  4. Establish and own deep relationships with every level of technical stakeholder from Engineers to CPOs / CTOs, ensuring Plaid remains top-of-mind as a trusted partner.
  5. Be a champion for our customers and work with our internal Plaid teams to translate customer feedback into product insights; partner with key customer stakeholders to ensure alignment between their business and product priorities and Plaid’s.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience in a client-facing and technology-focused role
  • Experience working with enterprise customers
  • Experience managing customer relationships independently
  • Building and executing technical strategies
  • Ability to tie technical solutions to business objectives, KPIs, and revenue outcomes
  • Excellent project management skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to provide technical details to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Deep understanding of APIs
  • Deep understanding of databases
  • Deep understanding of system infrastructures
  • Deep understanding of architecture
  • Self-starter
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally
  • Ability to influence structure and process
  • Experience influencing technical decision-makers
  • Ability to build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Customer-first attitude
  • Sense of empathy

Nice to have

  • Experience with tools like Postman
  • Experience with SQL
  • Experience with monitoring/logging dashboards

What the JD emphasized

  • technical success
  • technical guidance
  • technical improvements
  • technical voice
  • technical strategies
  • technical expert
  • technical strategy
  • technical features
  • technical stakeholder
  • technical feedback
  • technical incidents
  • technical account goals
  • technology-focused role
  • technical acumen
  • technical strategies
  • technical solutions
  • technical details
  • technical audiences
  • technical decision-makers