
Technical Account Manager
Kraken
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $175,000 - $210,000 per year
About the role
- Work with the Client Partner and Client Engineering to drive deep technical engagement, value realisation, and strategic alignment across your accounts
- Act as a trusted technical advisor and confidant to senior stakeholders like the CIO and CTO
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with customer technology leaders in assigned accounts
- Translate Kraken’s technical vision into outcomes that resonate with executive priorities
- Serve as the primary technical liaison, providing expertise, guidance, and support throughout the customer lifecycle
- Participate in roadmap discussions, executive briefings, and planning sessions to ensure technical alignment at the highest levels
- Provide deep architectural guidance to connect customer ecosystems with Kraken’s platform
- Guide system design, integrations, and configuration aligned with both customer and Kraken architectural principles
- Drive solution design that ensures scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability
- Identify opportunities to unlock additional value through feature adoption, platform capabilities, and ecosystem fit
- Provide regular reports and updates on project status, performance metrics, and potential improvements
- Facilitate product rollouts, upgrades, and configuration changes for clients, managing change effectively and minimizing disruption
- Identify risks within client accounts and develop mitigation strategies
- Triage and manage technical incidents in partnership with support and engineering teams
- Guide configuration and usage decisions to ensure best practices and optimal performance
- Provide hands-on support, troubleshooting, and technical insight to quickly resolve client issues
- Manage co-development efforts and joint technical initiatives to address complex issues and ensure successful outcomes
- Align product and customer roadmaps, advocate for customer needs internally, and provide feedback loops to product and engineering
- Act as a product advocate, gathering client feedback to influence product roadmap decisions.
Requirements
- 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as Technical Account Manager, Customer Success Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Enterprise Architecture or similar
- Proven experience in managing and supporting technical implementations, ideally in SaaS, cloud services, or IT environments
- Strong technical background, with knowledge of [e.g., cloud computing, APIs, databases, Python, Django, etc]
- Industry experience in Energy & Utilities is highly desirable. Adjacent industries like telecommunications and infrastructure can also be considered
- Ability to understand complex technical concepts and translate them into actionable insights for clients
- Proficient in troubleshooting and problem-solving skills; able to navigate technical issues and provide prompt solutions
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail and a proactive approach to identifying and solving problems
- Customer and quality focus; highly effective at building and improving relationships
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and handle multiple priorities with a problem-solving, client-centric mindset
- Bachelor’s degree, ideally in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud computingAPIsdatabasesPythonDjangotechnical implementationssolution designsystem designintegrationconfiguration
Soft skills
problem-solvingtroubleshootinganalytical mindsetattention to detailcustomer focusrelationship buildingcommunicationstrategic alignmentproactive approachadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Information Technologyrelated field degree