Job Description
See yourself at Twilio
Join the team as Twilio’s next Technical Account Manager P4 (English Speaking)
Who We Are & Why We’re Hiring
Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better applications and customer experiences.
Although we're headquartered in San Francisco, we have presence throughout South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. We're on a journey to becoming a global company that actively opposes racism and all forms of oppression and bias. At Twilio, we support diversity, equity & inclusion wherever we do business.
About The Job
Twilio is looking for an experienced Technical Account Manager who is going to be the designated technical support engineering contact for our strategic customers. As a designated technical contact you will work with our customers to resolve complex technical problems with potentially very costly and far-reaching consequences. You should have an interest in digging deep as well as be able to zoom out and look at the larger picture. The TAM delivers proactive guidance to the customer to provide added value through the use of Twilio technologies and deliver recommendations to make the customer’s environment less susceptible to business impacting downtime. You are able to remain calm and effective at higher workloads as well as excelling at prioritization and evaluation of situational urgency.
Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll:
- Use your strong technical and diplomatic skills to address customer issues and provide customer feedback to Twilio’s Product and Engineering teams.
- Work with our customers' and partners' developers, architects, and support personnel to resolve complex problems with potentially very costly and far-reaching consequences.
- Collaborate with your teammates and the Twilio Product and Engineering teams via Slack as well as filing JIRAs to report reproducible bugs.
- Understanding customer trends, analyzing patterns, driving betterments and reporting what you observe to the management team in order to better improve our support process is a key part of the role.
Qualifications
Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having “desired” qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!
Required
- 8+ years of relevant experience as part of a support or operations team in a software or SaaS company.
- Knowledge of web services, JavaScript (Node.js), React.JS, XML Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C#, Swift, API and implementations using SDKs.
- Broad capabilities to troubleshoot and debug server-side code and client-side code (JavaScript, Android, iOS).
- Skilled in troubleshooting network connectivity issues, with an understanding of TCP/UDP, and basics of SSL/TLS.
- Exceptional time management skills, emotional intelligence, interpersonal communication and ability to prioritize tasks while evaluating situational urgency.
- Demonstrated history of driving complex product issue resolutions including escalation management, internal and external strategy planning through to solution delivery.
- High competency in communicating complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences via phone or email mediums.
- Interest in utilizing customer feedback to identify and drive improvements in our products.
- Enthusiasm for interacting and collaborating with other departments within Twilio in your search for the solutions our customers need.
- Ability to stand in the customer’s shoes and demonstrated dedication to the customer experience.
- Actively contribute to the customer’s success by recommending and implementing strategies that drive results, exceed expectations, and create long-term value.
Desired
- Experience building and maintaining interactive dashboards using technologies such as Looker, Snowflake, Kibana, Splunk, Salesforce or others.
- Demonstrated ability to develop workflows to increase troubleshooting efficiency while still following standard processes and procedures.
- Experience working with Looker, Tableau, Salesforce, JIRA, Confluence, Airtable, Zendesk and other project tools.
Location
- This role will be remote, and based in India