
Technical Account Manager
Brightspot
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Reston • United States
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Salary
💰 $135,000 - $145,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for marquee enterprise customers.
- Develop deep knowledge of the customer’s architecture, priorities, and success metrics.
- Build trusted relationships with technical stakeholders, leadership, and executive sponsors.
- Act as a strategic advisor, aligning Brightspot capabilities with customer needs.
- Document and track near-term and mid-term strategic goals
- Lead technical conversations around architecture, integrations, scalability, performance, and best practices.
- Translate customer requirements into actionable plans for Engineering and Product teams.
- Facilitate design discussions and solution reviews.
- Proactively identify risks and coordinate mitigation strategies.
- Perform light technical configuration changes when appropriate.
- Own and lead bridge calls during priority incidents.
- Coordinate internal teams to ensure rapid resolution.
- Provide clear, timely communication to stakeholders throughout the incident lifecycle.
- Conduct post-incident reviews, including root cause summaries and action tracking.
- Schedule and lead recurring technical reviews, roadmap discussions, and executive updates.
- Drive agendas, document decisions and action items, and ensure accountability.
- Maintain visibility into open issues, enhancements, and ongoing initiatives.
- Track commitments and ensure delivery against milestones.
- Act as a professional and transparent ambassador for Brightspot.
- Advocate internally for customer priorities while protecting engineering focus.
- Partner with Sales to identify growth opportunities within the account.
- Improve coordination and communication between the customer and internal teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a Technical Account Manager, Solutions Architect, Customer Success, or similar technical customer-facing role
- Significant enterprise-level account management experience
- Prior hands-on experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, or Software Engineering environments
- Strong technical foundation (cloud infrastructure, APIs, SaaS architectures, integrations, networking, etc.)
- Proven ability to lead architecture-level discussions and complex technical conversations.
- Experience managing high-pressure incidents and leading escalation bridges.
- Strong program/project management skills with demonstrated milestone ownership.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, support, and sales teams.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated leadership and proactive ownership.
- Experience operating in on-call or high-availability environments.
- Familiarity with modern deployment practices and infrastructure tooling (e.g., Cloudflare or similar platforms)
Benefits
- health, dental, and vision insurance
- 3 weeks paid vacation
- paid sick leave
- paid company holidays
- Safe Harbor 401(k) with employer matching
- continuing education stipend
- 3-week paid sabbatical after your 5th anniversary
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
DevOpsInfrastructureSoftware Engineeringcloud infrastructureAPIsSaaS architecturesintegrationsnetworkingprogram managementproject management
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipproactive ownershiprelationship buildingstrategic advisingrisk identificationmilestone ownershipcross-functional collaborationincident managementdocumentation