Senior Technical Account Manager

Qualys; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm in Dubai seeks a Technical Account Manager to enhance customer satisfaction and retention. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and business insight to advocate for customers, manage key relationships, and ensure product value realization. Ideal candidates should hold a bachelor's degree with 6-10 years of relevant experience, strong communication skills in English and Arabic, and familiarity with security technologies. The position involves travel and strategic relationship management to secure account expansion and renewals.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in customer-facing roles.
• Familiarity with enterprise security solutions and auditing frameworks.
• Strong work ethic and adaptability.

Responsibilities

• Drive customer satisfaction, retention, and growth.
• Manage renewal strategy and pipeline forecasting.
• Develop strong business relationships with clients.
• Ensure product utilization meets business outcomes.
• Engage in joint planning with partners.

Skills

Excellent English and Arabic communication

Strong presentation skills

Analytical and organized

Knowledge of networking and security technologies

Ability to travel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

The Technical Account Manager (TAM) is a customer responsible for driving customer satisfaction, retention, and growth across channels, distributors, and end-customers. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and business insight to articulate the company's value, manage strategic relationships, and navigate all phases of the sales and procurement lifecycle, including technical validation, deal formalization, renewal management, and opportunity development. The TAM acts as a trusted advisor and success champion, ensuring platform adoption, demonstrating value realization, and advocating for customer needs while coordinating closely with partners and internal teams to achieve account expansion and year-over-year contract renewal.

Key Responsibilities

Sales Engineering Activities

• Technical Validation & Proof: Deliver high-level and detailed technical presentations; conduct compelling Proof-of-Value (PoV) demonstrations; and respond to technical and business queries (including product features and roadmaps).
• Deal Formalization: Take ownership of generating accurate and persuasive technical content for formal documentation, including responding to RFIs and RFPs.

Sales & Renewal Activities

• Opportunity Development: Proactively identify, qualify, and drive upsell and cross-sell opportunities within the account base, coordinating with partners and distributors to structure value‑driven proposals and bundled offerings for joint customers.
• Renewal Management: Own and execute the renewal strategy, working directly with the customer and through channel partners to ensure the contract is renewed and expanded year‑over‑year, with clear alignment to procurement timelines, budget cycles, and framework agreements.
• Pipeline & Forecasting: Manage and update the full opportunity pipeline (CRM) for all expansion, and renewal business, ensuring visibility into the account forecast across direct and channel motions, and providing early insight into upcoming procurement events, tenders, and RFPs.
• Procurement & Commercial Support: Collaborate with distributors and resellers to support customer procurement processes, including technical inputs to RFPs/RFQs, BoM validation, license mapping, and alignment with purchasing policies and contractual requirements.

Customer Success & Advisory Activities

• Strategic Relationship Management: Maintain and develop strong business and technical relationships at all levels, acting as the customer's primary point of contact, trusted advisor, and success champion.
• Platform Optimization & Adoption: Perform regular platform health checks and business reviews; share expertise and provide relevant training to maximize customer adoption and utilization.
• Value Realization & Reporting: Continuously track and report on product utilization, demonstrating and ensuring measurable value delivery against the customer's stated business outcomes.
• Risk Mitigation & Advocacy: Run enhancement plans for accounts at risk; assist in resolving critical technical issues; and convey customer requirements to Product Management and Engineering as the internal advocate.
• Strategic Liaison: Conduct regular client visits for relationship building and collaboration; help customers align Qualys solutions with regulatory frameworks (CIS, PCI DSS, VAPT, etc.).
• Distributor & Partner Engagement: Participate in joint account planning sessions with partners and distributors to align customer success plans, renewal strategies, and expansion roadmap with the customer’s security and procurement priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 6-10 years of relevant experience.
• Excellent English and Arabic, written and oral communication skills.
• Must possess strong presentation skills and be able to communicate professionally in response to emails, RFPs and when submitting reports.
• Organized and analytical, able to eliminate sales obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches.
• Knowledge of key technologies and subjects including TCP/IP and networking, Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance/Audit Tools, Cloud Security, Cloud Technologies, Firewalls, Web App Security, Endpoint Detection and Response, and other relevant enterprise security solutions.
• Knowledge of Auditing Frameworks would be a plus: CIS, NIST, CobiT, ISO27001, ITIL, NERC-CIP, etc…
• An Information Security industry qualification would be a definite plus (e.g. CISSP, CISA).
• Must possess an excellent work ethic with a” make it happen” attitude.
• Good understanding of emerging technologies such as DevOps, Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, etc…
• Able to travel throughout the sales territory.