Technical Account Manager - Automattic Special Projects Team

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As a Technical Account Manager (TAM) on the Automattic Special Projects team, your primary responsibility will be to ensure our partners have an excellent experience with WordPress and Automattic products, from initial partner onboarding through the entire support and maintenance lifecycle of a website. Your role involves close collaboration with site owners, designers, and developers to actualize partner requests, while also providing valuable feedback for product improvement to Automattic’s teams.

Your key responsibilities will include:  

  • Driving our partners’ adoption of WordPress and other Automattic products and services.
  • Working closely with our partners to resolve their incoming requests with high precision.
  • Drawing on your technical acumen and verbal and written communication skills to represent Automattic.
  • Collaborate with partners to define website functionality in ambiguous contexts, and take ownership of delivery, timelines, and outcomes.
  • Diving into WordPress and WooCommerce configurations, setup, and site building.
  • Leading high-touch deployments or launches, including DNS configuration, domain transfers, data migrations, and integrations.
  • Acting as the “voice of the customer” for our product teams, championing areas for opportunity, and surfacing bugs.

Other responsibilities:

  • Developing close relationships with our partners in order to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges, and help them achieve the greatest value from our products—particularly (but not limited to) WordPress, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and MailPoet.
  • Troubleshooting technical and editor-facing issues as they arise, resolving the root causes where possible, and liaising with engineers where more in-depth support is needed.
  • Translating partner requests into concrete, WordPress-focused requirements.
  • Writing up clear, detailed tasks for team members to execute.
  • Responding to urgent incidents on our partner sites (such as fatal errors or workflow-blocking bugs) with speed, care, and attention to detail.
  • Continuously looking to improve and share processes that increase active project capacity. 
  • Communicating confidently with third parties about partner needs, integration requirements, and WordPress best practices.
  • Demonstrating ownership of the quality of our partners’ sites by advocating for their needs, verifying solutions we've delivered, and having a high attention to detail.
  • Sharing knowledge, tools, and tips to help team members.
  • Communicating clearly and effectively to a diverse set of partners with varying levels of technical aptitude.

About you:

  • You have an obsessive need to provide “beyond the expected” customer service to the folks you work with.
  • Your project management approach will strike a balance between thoroughness and momentum, keeping complex initiatives moving forward while maintaining quality and meeting deadlines.
  • An advanced level of WordPress admin expertise, including:
    • Ability to understand how plugins and themes interact with the site and with each other.
    • Comfort using the Site Editor to modify patterns and page templates.
  • A strong background with general web technologies, including: DNS, web accessibility, site performance, technical SEO, and ecommerce.
  • Excellent English written and verbal communication skills, with an aptitude for taking technical language and making it understandable.
  • Ability to triage requests, escalating needs outside the skillset/scope of the role to other team members.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage assigned work independently while adjusting to new and competing priorities.
  • Comfortable creating structure in ambiguous situations and pursuing a clear path forward.
  • Effective problem solving, conflict resolution, and context-switching.
  • Distilling goals and wishlists into concrete next steps.
  • Remaining undaunted by managing risks in high-stakes situations.
  • An eye for detail, and an innate desire to close out all items on a project checklist.
  • A demonstrable understanding of how AI can multiply your productivity.

Bonus points if you have:

  • Contributed to an open source project.
  • Used Linear as a project or product management tool.
  • Read Unreasonable Hospitality.
  • Supported or run your own WooCommerce store.

We are currently prioritizing at least one candidate that works during typical business hours in the Pacific time zone (approximately 16:00 to 02:00 UTC).

Salary range: $85,000 -$130,000 USD.  Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.

We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated.

This isn’t your typical work-from-home job—we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. Read more about our  compensation philosophy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves.

About Automattic 

Now in our 20th year, we’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.

We’re a distributed company with more than 1400 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Enriched by this diversity, we’re united by a singular mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source. In short, we help maintain a balance in society, creating and continually refining powerful tools people can use to compete fairly—regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.

We believe in Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL. Automattic is a Most Loved Company and Disability Confident Committed. (Here’s what that might mean for you.) Learn more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion and our Employee Resource Groups.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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