Senior Technical Account Manager, EMEA

Senior Technical Account Manager - EMEA

We're a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.

The Role: We are looking for a customer-centric Senior Technical Account Manager (TAM) with a direct focus on our largest enterprise customers and partners. The TAM is a technical professional who helps optimize Aiven's customer experience and accelerate time-to-value when using Aiven's Open Source services. You will act as a single point of contact and customer advocate, providing direct access into Aiven business functions such as Support, Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, and Executive Staff.

What You'll Do:Build Relationships: Help customers and partners succeed by building successful relationships throughout the entire customer journey.

Technical Strategy: Develop a deep technical understanding of the customer's business priorities, operational models, cloud architecture, and technical initiatives.

Operational Advisory: Maintain awareness of customer operations to assist with operational planning and risk management, acting as an advisor for deployments.

Cross-Functional Advocacy: Act as a conduit into Aiven's Sales, Support, Engineering, and Product Management teams to represent customer interests.

Operational Reviews: Conduct regular reviews on incidents, field advisories, security vulnerabilities, and root-cause analysis.

Sales Collaboration: Participate in sales account planning and support account penetration and pipeline growth strategies.

Travel: Travel up to 10% of the time to meet with customers and partners.

What We're Looking For:Technical Expertise: A deep conceptual and hands-on understanding of Apache Kafka a