Technical Account Manager - Pressable

Here at Pressable we take pride in offering the best WordPress hosting on the planet. Our platform is rock-solid our pricing fair and our team is fiercely dedicated to our customers' success. We've got all the ingredients for a fantastic hosting experience but we need someone like you to take it to the next level!

Pressable is part of Automattic the company behind WordPress.com WooCommerce Tumblr Simplenote Jetpack Longreads Day One PocketCasts and more. We believe in making the web a better place.

Responsibilities:

As a Technical Account Manager (TAM) for Pressable you will:

• Drive our customers’ adoption of WordPress and other Automattic products and services. Draw on your technical acumen and customer-facing skills to effectively represent Automattic.

• Lead discussions with senior leadership regarding technical and product strategy incidents trade-offs and risk management.

• Work with developers and senior engineers to provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help customers plan and build solutions that proactively drive application health.

• Develop close relationships with your customers in order to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges and help them gain the greatest value from our products..

Requirements:

You are motivated by impact whether that’s achieved by rapid deployment of bespoke high-profile sites; helping newsrooms take control of their online publishing; assisting businesses with their digital transformation; or working with some of the most influential companies in the world to get the most out of WordPress.

Your style is to get things done while reducing friction for your colleagues and customers — to respond rapidly when called upon as well as being proactive. You view our customers as partners and pride yourself in establishing long-term relationships. You enjoy managing projects and timelines and working with everyone from engineers to GMs and VPs of Sales.

In addition you have experience with:

• Influencing customer outcomes analyzing customer health metrics and tracking customer interactions via tools.

• Collaborating closely with team members to support renewals and expansion opportunities.

• Gauging customers’ levels of engagement with the company and providing feedback to internal stakeholders regarding product and service improvements.

• Creating structure in ambiguous situations and designing effective processes.

• Leading customer on-sites conducting service reviews and empowering customers to achieve success and gain the greatest value from our products.

• Effective problem-solving conflict resolution and context-switching.

• Distilling and accomplishing goals and wish-lists into concrete next steps.

• Remaining undaunted by managing risks in high stakes situations.

• Conducting kick-off calls and getting everyone on the same page.

• Working with WordPress or other web technologies.

• Bonus points for software development and architecture experience but writing code is not in scope for this position.

Salary range: $73000-$130000 USD - Please note that salary ranges are global regardless of location and we pay in local currency.

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