Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kion is a cloud operations and financial operations company providing multicloud visibility and controls. The Technical Account Manager serves as the primary technical advisor for a portfolio of customers, leading onboarding, technical engagement, issue resolution, platform adoption, and renewal support. The role partners with Customer Success, Sales, Engineering, Product, and Support teams to drive customer value and retention.
Responsibilities
- Own a named portfolio of 8–10 strategic (Tier 1–2) accounts plus a pooled set of ~8 mid-tier accounts (≈15–18 total), and serve as their primary point of contact for all platform and technical matters
- Lead onboarding for new accounts in your book to a 90-day time-to-value standard — onboarding is the first renewal activity, not a support task
- Run tiered customer syncs: monthly technical check-ins with strategic accounts, 6–8 week check-ins with named growth accounts, and quarterly proactive outreach to the pooled book — with structured agendas sent ahead, notes, tracked action items, and a written recap within two business days
- Advise customers on platform upgrades: timing, release notes highlights, known issues, and coordinating phased rollouts from sandbox to non-prod to production
- Troubleshoot and own customer platform issues end-to-end, including compliance dashboard configuration, spend reporting gaps, permissions, integrations, and enforcement policy behavior
- Guide customers on cloud governance and FinOps best practices: budget-to-actuals analysis, cost anomaly investigation, multi-cloud spend visibility, and rightsizing guidance
- Drive adoption of new platform features and capabilities, including AI-assisted tooling, through demos, working sessions, and proactive outreach
- Maintain accurate, current account health tracking in CRM within 48 hours of every meaningful interaction: open items, sentiment, risk flags, and next steps
- Host the weekly customer office-hours rotation; answer customer questions within one business day (strategic accounts) or two (pooled book); act on health triggers — e.g., a >30% usage decline — within one week
- Co-present quarterly business reviews (Kion Objective Reviews / KORs) for strategic accounts with the CSM — owning the adoption story and roadmap segment — and deliver semi-annual executive business reviews, annual health reviews, and quarterly written usage & value reports for mid-tier accounts
- Serve as the bridge between customers and Kion's Support team, ensuring tickets are scoped correctly, prioritized appropriately, and moving; escalating when they are not
- Represent customer bug reports and feature requests in internal cross-functional reviews, with context on business impact and urgency
- Attend and contribute to internal rhythms: weekly CSM+TAM standup, monthly Tier 1 account reviews (with CSM and AE), weekly TAM Sync, Support Team Sync, Bug and Feature Review, Sprint Demos, and monthly Product leadership syncs
- Partner with Account Executives on renewal cycles, expansion opportunities, and Professional Service SOWs
- Contribute to the Kion Success Center knowledge base when documentation gaps are identified based on recurring customer questions
- Engage customers in the Kion community Slack (Cloudunity) with release updates, answers, and discussions
Skills
- 4–8 years in technical consulting, solutions engineering, implementation, or professional services (or equivalent customer-facing technical depth)
- Relationship-first mindset: you build genuine trust through consistent follow-through, technical credibility, and treating customer problems as your own
- Technical fluency in cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCP, IAM, multi-account governance, compliance frameworks (NIST, CIS, FedRAMP), and cloud cost management concepts
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; you calibrate your message to the audience, from cloud engineer to executive sponsor
- Strong organizational skills; you manage a complex, multi-account book without letting commitments slip or customers wonder where things stand
- Comfort with change; you stay effective (and keep customers steady) while team processes and engagement models are being refined
- Ability to interpret platform data and metrics to diagnose issues, identify adoption gaps, and drive decision-making
- Experience navigating government customer environments — procurement, ATO/compliance processes, classification constraints — and self-hosted or customer-hosted (non-SaaS) deployments
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience
- Kion is a remote-first company. We offer a 100% remote work schedule (US only)!
- Experience with cloud governance, FinOps, or cost management platforms
- Familiarity with compliance standards: NIST 800-53, CIS Benchmarks, FedRAMP, CMMC
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience with customer success platforms or support ticketing systems
- Experience using or demonstrating AI-assisted tooling in a customer-facing context
Benefits
- 100% remote work schedule (US only)
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- 3% of direct compensation contribution to your 401(k) (no match required)
- Unlimited PTO to allow staff to spend time with friends and family
- Regular virtual engagements to better connect with co-workers and talk about life outside of work
- A small-team collaborative environment that fosters communication and innovation
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