Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Description
If you consider yourself to be a strong technologist that is motivated by opportunities to solve unique and challenging problems, if you have a strong desire to directly enable customer success, and if you want to work for a rapidly growing company that needs leaders instead of followers, this might be the place for you.
We are committed to providing you a flexible work environment where individuality, fun, and talent are all valued equally. If you consider yourself innovative, adept at collaboration, and you care deeply about the work you do, we want to talk!
Expectations For Success
- Act as the primary, dedicated point of contact for many of Ookla’s highest valued customers
- Actively develop and grow relationships across your customer’s business and technical organizations
- Educate, train, and support our clients to ensure optimum utilization of our product suite
- Act as the primary resolution function for any issues or questions raised by your customers
- Personally troubleshoot customer-facing business and technical issues, and drive issue escalation within Ookla as needed
- Engage with Director and C-Level executives in support of their business needs
- Partner internally with the sales team to periodically review account health and identify opportunities for future growth within your accounts, and assist with pre-sales activities
- Champion and advocate for customer requirements within Ookla (be their voice)
- Participate in customer requested meetings (onsite or via phone)
- Continually develop your own knowledge and application of new technologies to support and enable growth of our customers.
- Think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges as you help our customers take advantage of Ookla’s data products
- 5 - 10 years of enterprise-level, technology-related support or account management experience
- Exceptional customer focus and bias for action
- Experience supporting nascent products/services into new markets is strongly desired
- Adept at establishing and developing relationships across customer organizations
- Strong technical problem solving skills with a demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
- Experience with data analytics, including applications like Tableau, SQL and advanced Excel functions.
- Experience visualizing big data to demonstrate value and quality to customers
- Familiarity with internet, cellular and broadband technology and infrastructure
- At least some experience with RAN/RF
- Self-motivated with a track record of appropriate urgency and follow-through
- Strong verbal and written communications skills with both clients and internal audiences, able to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization.
- Ability to speak and write both Spanish and English fluently. Portuguese language skills are a plus.
- Knowledge and expertise with Ookla’s product offerings, including our licensing, data, and awards, or experience with similar technology-based product offerings
- Ability to travel regularly to meet and connect with existing clients, and to attend Ookla corporate and team functions
- Strategic thinker with the ability to see/understand the big picture
- Global business experience a plus, with special focus on supporting the needs of an international customer base
- Technical Program or Project Management experience a plus
- B.A./B.S. degree or equivalent, Master’s degree or international business education a plus
Benefits:
We care deeply about each other and the work we do, and our perks are just one way we demonstrate this. Ookla has great benefits including competitive compensation and paid time off. We make sure you have the best hardware, software and tools available for you to do your work.