Senior Enterprise Technical Account Manager – Instacart Employment


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Position Summary:

As a Senior Enterprise Technical Account Manager (TAM), you will draw on your customer-facing skills, relationship building abilities, and technical acumen to help our retailers successfully navigate the platform. Through ownership of a dedicated number of retailer accounts, you effectively support and lead all technical conversations. This role is for a highly motivated and self-directed individual seeking an impactful role aimed at changing the way consumers shop for groceries (and more!) via a cutting-edge e-commerce platform, and to work with some of the largest retailers in the world on solving large scale business problems. This responsibility includes developing a strong partnership across Engineering, Product, Business Development and many other cross-functional partners.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Keep up to date on Instacart’s products/platform, i.e. new product features, restrictions and limitations, best practices as well as technical details. You will be the customer’s first and main point of contact for all product related issues and questions.
  • Lead status calls with retailer(s) to drive discussion and resolution on outstanding support issues ranging in severity, complexity, and environment (Production & Non-Production).
  • Collaborative Execution
  • You will investigate data anomalies (i.e. order creation, cancellations, payments, logins, etc.) and answer support questions from both internal and external parties
  • Improve Customer Performance – Advocate On Behalf Of The Customer
  • Additionally, you will be part of a group responsible for being the technical point of contact for diagnosing, investigating, and triaging platform functionality and 3rd party integrations.
  • Meticulously document new ideas, lessons learned, and customer-specific knowledge (integrations, customizations, configurations) in our internal knowledge base. Document customer specific technical support processes and runbooks to ensure team productivity and efficient communication.
  • As a member of the Technical Delivery team, you will regularly engage with diverse internal and external stakeholder groups. Internally, you will be collaborating with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams, but also engaging with Engineers and Product Managers on a day-to-day basis in our Toronto office.
  • Work with retailers and cross functional teams to properly plan, mitigate and execute production changes
  • Optimize your portfolio of accounts by consistently reviewing your customer’s technical performance and overall platform health – including error rates, data feed optimization, up-time, etc., understanding the opportunities and then tweaking variables and configurations for improvements
  • You will own the overall success of partner technical deployments (releases, version upgrades, bug fixes, new features/enhancements) and support strategy.
  • Triage and drive resolution on incoming retailer support tickets via Jira Service Desk while managing preset business priorities and adhering to SLAs. Own the follow-up on action items and leverage all issues and incidents as opportunities to identify improvement areas and to grow and mature our processes and teams.
  • Technical Support and Relationship Management

Required Education & Experience:

  • Deep knowledge of the logistics of SaaS application development, distributed systems, and release/version management.
  • You have incident management experience for critical issues impacting a production environment.
  • You possess the ability to quickly understand and translate complex product and technical concepts to non-technical and executive audiences through your developed skill set of interfacing with external stakeholders.
  • You have a data-driven decision making mentality that will allow you to draw insights and tell a compelling story to improve customer performance and relationships.
  • You have initiated and driven significant process improvements in the past, leading to better customer outcomes.
  • Working knowledge of the Linux command line and Git.
  • You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience with 2+ years of experience working as a Senior Technical Account Manager supporting Enterprise solutions.
  • You approach troubleshooting strategically and critically always looking to challenge the status quo and offer up viable solutions/options.
  • You have excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • You have outstanding technical aptitude and acumen. You can quickly learn the ins and outs of our e-commerce platform to optimize retailer performance.
  • You have practical hands on experience and working knowledge of SQL and APIs (HTTP REST).
  • You excel at learning new software quickly and often have an intuitive knowledge about how product features work.
  • You have a detail oriented mindset with the ability to thrive in fast moving, ambiguous environments.
  • You are independent and thrive in a self-motivated fast-paced, often ambiguous, and rapidly changing environment. You have a strong bias for action and the ability to juggle multiple priorities. You can create a sense of urgency for day-to-day priorities requiring immediate attention.