Technical Account Manager - Oakland, United States - LaunchDarkly

LaunchDarkly

Verified Company

Oakland, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

About the Job:

As a Strategic Technical Account Manager, you'll lead our mission to enhance customer experiences, build lasting partnerships, and seamlessly integrate LaunchDarkly into their existing.

You'll collaborate with clients to address technical challenges, align LaunchDarkly with their goals, and create tailored Success Plans.

Your role includes optimizing their use of LaunchDarkly, finding innovative integration opportunities, and advising new business units on effective strategies.

You'll work closely with our Revenue Account Team to drive mutual value and build strong relationships, promoting the advanced use of LaunchDarkly in existing accounts and expanding our networks.

Responsibilities:

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Trusted Advisor: You understand our customers like no other. A proven track record of uncovering and managing top-line corporate objectives. Your technical expertise in the DevOps space allows you to drive more holistic conversations with the clients toward more comprehensive solutions. Armed with that information, you're able to provide frameworks and guidance on change management which get them to consider additional core services that fit their overall business goals and guide them towards a more advanced and valuable implementation of LaunchDarkly.
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Expand your network:Driving the optimal experience for our customers requires working closely with our counterparts at technical partners being leveraged by our clients. The better together conversation drives a much more comprehensive solution for our customers and can reduce the change management burden immensely.
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Detect and Diagnose risks and develop plans: You'll work to proactively identify and diagnose risks that may inhibit a customer's success and work with the account management team to get the customer back on track. You'll identify possible churn or contraction risk early and work with the wider account and renewal management team on revenue forecasting and mitigation plans.
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Prescriptively Sell:Evaluate and analyze customer needs and regularly, maintaining a pulse on how our customers are tracking against their key goals and outcomes. You will identify opportunities for customers to purchase additional products, services and adopt new features needed for them to maximize the value of our solution.
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Plan successful onboarding and adoption with prospective customers: You will meet with customers late in the sales cycle in order to familiarize yourself with their goals and collaborate on a prescriptive success plan that will maximize their time-to-value with LaunchDarkly. Our team works across numerous client stakeholders and is responsible for simplifying the plan to meet all parties' needs in our largest customers.
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Own the onboarding process
for new customers: You will shepherd in new customers from the sales handoff until we've met our obligations during the onboarding period. You will educate customers on how to use LaunchDarkly to get the most value and success while adhering to best practices and guiding principles. The goal is to shorten the time to value through successful onboarding
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Document: As your customers successfully onboard and adopt our platform, you'll be responsible for documenting the process so that we can validate our success with key stakeholders, demonstrate real value, and expand our influence in partnership with our internal counterparts.
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Build Champions & Executive Relationships: You will identify & support key advocates within the organization who actively promote the value of LaunchDarkly. In partnership with your Champion, you're able to leverage success metrics & value-driven insights to gain sponsorship at an Executive level. To excel in this area, you should have experience working closely with both internal and external executives and carry an executive presence.

About You:

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Entrepreneurial and Self-Motivated: You are driven and proactive, taking ownership of your role and responsibilities.
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Passion for Learning and Growth: You are enthusiastic about continuous learning and personal development at LaunchDarkly.
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Intellectual Curiosity and Ambition:You have a hunger for knowledge and strive for ambitious goals.
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Excellent Communication:Your written and spoken communication skills are outstanding.
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Highly Organized & Autonomous: You are capable of efficiently managing your workload and thrive in an environment that encourages autonomy.
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Adaptability:You excel in a fast-paced and dynamic organizational setting.
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Innate emotional intelligence, empathy, and negotiation skills - you build trust quickly and maintain it easily
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Natural Problem Solver: you have strong intuition and critical thinking skills allowing you to detect problems quickly and either implement tailored solutions or escalate with clarity and tact.
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Team Player: You collaborate well with others, know when to pull specialists or leaders in and keep