
Technical Account Director
- Melbourne, VIC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Deliver an exceptional customer experience through proactive engagement, applying the right internal resources, and optimally using our Ultimate Success engagement model to meet customer business goals.
- Lead Ultimate Success engagements, for an iconic Australian brand, serving as the technical executive point of contact throughout the customers solution usage lifecycle.
- Advise and support the customer's technical strategy with Adobe Solutions via Mutual Action Plans with clear outcomes.
- Assess strategic Customer technical risks and opportunities, driving the extended Adobe team to build and deliver mitigation and remediation plans.
- Drive clear communication across the customer’s operational areas. Maintain regular and appropriate governance with both internal and external executive teams.
- Advocate for the Customer across internal Adobe teams. Optimize the client's investment and accelerate task, issue execution, and resolution.
- Drive innovation, roadmap influence, standard methodologies, and process improvement back into the Adobe ecosystem.
- Responsible for the global engagement model and review cycle across multiple business units and/or brands.
- Consolidate comprehensive cadence across all technical partners and influence delivery achievements across multi-solution, multi-discipline engagements.
- Work hands-on with Adobe's internal collaborators such as, Customer Success Management, Technical Account Management, Managed Services, Engineering, TechOps, Product Management, Support, and the Adobe Consulting practice and third-party partners in support of our customer's success.
- Lead a matrixed services team that may involve multiple project teams from Adobe or client or partner organizations. Develop effective working relationships with our customer’s partners.
- Make recommendations on how new and existing features fit within customer’s environments, supplying standard methodologies and recommendations.
- Lead project-based, consultant-led architectural and design discussions to ensure solutions are optimized.
- Act as a customer’s trusted advisor and partner.
- Mentor immediate team members as needed.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related technical industry subject area and/or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience in a senior capacity in consultative, customer success and/ or related roles in digital marketing technology.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to collaborate and influence across multiple teams throughout Adobe and client side, including VPs, CTOs, CMOs.
- Excellent presentation skills, confident presence and the ability to lead meetings, workshops and reviews in front of any audience size.
- Strong conflict resolution skills, to drive closure to customer concerns and open technical issues across a broad set of issues including technical, architectural, business process & partnership.
- Outstanding customer facing skills that enable you to represent Adobe within a customer’s environment.
- Validated interpersonal, prioritisation skills and an ability to work in a highly matrixed environment.
- Ability to think strategically about business, product and technical challenges to help our customers realise their software investments, efficiencies, advantages and innovations.
- Awareness of development methodologies and technologies and understanding of and experience with marketing software and domain principles.
- Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud. Business practitioner level knowledge with more than one Adobe Experience Cloud. Adobe Certifications highly desirable.
- Validated experience working with government clients, with a deep understanding of key challenges such as compliance, personalisation, omnichannel engagement and the implications of industry regulations on data management.
- Ability to be in the customer/ Adobe offices, located in Melbourne 80% of the time.