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Technical Account Manager, Automattic Special Projects Team
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 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,...
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