
Technical Account Manager – Technical Advisory
Sonar
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Australia
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About the role
- Grow the usage of the Sonar solution within Accounts
- Increase the overall Account Sonar maturity
- Lower the risk of Account churn or downgrade
- Increase Account satisfaction, reduce the number of escalations
- Increase the number of Sonar sponsors in the Account
- Establish and maintain Sonar as a Trusted Advisor in the Account
- Entice Accounts to stay current on an Active version of Sonar, to get maximal value
- Influence Sonar roadmap to meet Account needs
- Actively listen and formalize Account technical pains or other adoption inhibitors
- Work on plans to overcome customer pains and inhibitors
- Report product technical or functional gaps internally and advocate for their resolution
- Evangelize/Promote the Sonar methodology to govern continuous Code Quality and Security improvements to the customer
- Assist Sonar sponsors in the Account for the promotion/evangelization of the Sonar ecosystem
- Keep Accounts up to date on the roadmap and aware of the value present in upcoming Sonar releases, as well as collecting feedback
- Recruit customer development teams not currently using Sonar “Upgrade” customer development teams that do not use Sonar correctly and therefore do not receive the maximum value
- Position (favorably) the Sonar ecosystem vs other competing products potentially still used in the Account
- Educate developers and managers on the value of static code analysis in general and of the Sonar ecosystem specifically
- Make sure that the Account's Sonar technical deployment and operations are in line with the size of the deployment and the criticality of the tool in the DevOps chain
- Run Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with Account Sales representatives
- Execute Sonar deployment audits, identify gaps, and drive remediation plans for Accounts
- Contribute to the Account Management plans with Sales Representatives. Elaborate the Technical strategy tailored to the Account context, provide inputs on the Commercial strategy
- Keep yourself constantly up to date knowledge of the technical status of the Account, technical progress, threats, and opportunities for improved maturity
- Track product development within Sonar in order to maintain product expertise
Requirements
- Proven practical experience (at least 5 years) in software development or DevOps engineering
- At least 5 years of experience in pre- or post-sales customer-facing activities
- High listening skills and the ability to formalize and abstract elements expressed by customers and partners
- Excellent presentation skills with strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proven ability to work in a team, receiving and giving feedback as well as sharing knowledge
- Attention to details
- A can-do attitude: challenging the status quo, leading and contributing to key improvements and innovations
- Autonomy to run your activity/plans with limited supervision
Benefits
- Flexible work policy with 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home
- Continuous education support
- Dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software developmentDevOps engineeringstatic code analysisSonar deployment auditsCode Quality improvementsSecurity improvementscustomer developmenttechnical strategyproduct development tracking
Soft Skills
listening skillspresentation skillswritten communicationverbal communicationteam collaborationattention to detailcan-do attitudeautonomyfeedback sharing