Kraken

Technical Account Manager

Kraken

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited 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