Technical Account Manager at Kion
United States
$118k - $128k
<meta><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:16pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">ABOUT THE ROLE</strong></b></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">As a Technical Account Manager at Kion, you are the primary technical advisor and technical relationship owner for a dedicated portfolio of customers, partnering with the CSM (who orchestrates the account) and the AE (who owns the commercial motion). Your north star is Kion's core value: </span><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Turning Customers into Fans</strong></b><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">You will run structured, tiered engagement cadences, serve as the connective tissue between customers and Kion's Engineering, Product, and Support teams, and own the technical side of the customer lifecycle from onboarding through renewal. Your customers will span enterprise commercial accounts (life sciences, tech, higher education) and government/defense accounts. Success looks like customers who renew, expand, and advocate for Kion because they trust your technical guidance and feel that you genuinely own their outcomes. You’ll also be joining at an exciting moment: the broader Customer Success team is refining how it works, so you can expect aspects of this role to keep evolving as those improvements take shape.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:7pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:14pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">YOUR DAY-TO-DAY:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">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</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">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</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">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</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Advise customers on platform upgrades: timing, release notes highlights, known issues, and coordinating phased rollouts from sandbox to non-prod to production</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Troubleshoot and own customer platform issues end-to-end, including compliance dashboard configuration, spend reporting gaps, permissions, integrations, and enforcement policy behavior</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Guide customers on cloud governance and FinOps best practices: budget-to-actuals analysis, cost anomaly investigation, multi-cloud spend visibility, and rightsizing guidance</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Drive adoption of new platform features and capabilities, including AI-assisted tooling, through demos, working sessions, and proactive outreach</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Maintain accurate, current account health tracking in CRM within 48 hours of every meaningful interaction: open items, sentiment, risk flags, and next steps</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">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</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">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</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">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</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Represent customer bug reports and feature requests in internal cross-functional reviews, with context on business impact and urgency</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">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</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Partner with Account Executives on renewal cycles, expansion opportunities, and Professional Service SOWs</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Contribute to the Kion Success Center knowledge base when documentation gaps are identified based on recurring customer questions</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Engage customers in the Kion community Slack (Cloudunity) with release updates, answers, and discussions</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:14pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">HOW YOU'LL BE MEASURED:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Time-to-value: new accounts reach first measurable value inside 90 days</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Technical health score of your book, and health-trigger response time</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">On-time delivery of prescribed touchpoints: check-ins, EBRs, health reviews, and usage reports</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Critical-issue resolution time and escalation quality</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Renewal outcomes on your book, in partnership with the AE — the adoption story you supply feeds every value recap</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:14pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">WHAT WE ARE EXPECTING FROM YOU (I.E., THE QUALIFICATIONS YOU MUST HAVE):</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px 0in;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">4–8 years in technical consulting, solutions engineering, implementation, or professional services (or equivalent customer-facing technical depth)</span></li></ul><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px 0in;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Relationship-first mindset: you build genuine trust through consistent follow-through, technical credibility, and treating customer problems as your own</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Technical fluency in cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCP, IAM, multi-account governance, compliance frameworks (NIST, CIS, FedRAMP), and cloud cost management concepts</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; you calibrate your message to the audience, from cloud engineer to executive sponsor</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong organizational skills; you manage a complex, multi-account book without letting commitments slip or customers wonder where things stand</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Comfort with change; you stay effective (and keep customers steady) while team processes and engagement models are being refined</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ability to interpret platform data and metrics to diagnose issues, identify adoption gaps, and drive decision-making</span></li></ul><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience navigating government customer environments — procurement, ATO/compliance processes, classification constraints — and self-hosted or customer-hosted (non-SaaS) deployments</span></li></ul><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">WISH LIST (nice-to-haves):</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with cloud governance, FinOps, or cost management platforms</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Familiarity with compliance standards: NIST 800-53, CIS Benchmarks, FedRAMP, CMMC</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with customer success platforms or support ticketing systems</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience using or demonstrating AI-assisted tooling in a customer-facing context</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">WHAT WE WILL PROVIDE IN RETURN:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:14pt 0px 0pt;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Kion is a remote-first company. We offer a 100% remote work schedule (US only)!</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Excellent compensation and outstanding benefits, including medical, dental and vision!</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">3% of direct compensation contribution to your 401(k) (no match required).</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Unlimited PTO to allow staff to spend time with friends and family.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Regular virtual engagements to better connect with co-workers and talk about life outside of work.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 14pt;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">A small-team collaborative environment that fosters communication and innovation.</span></li></ul>
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