Sr Technical Account Manager - West

Dataiku; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, dental, and vision

401k company match

Paid vacations and sick leave

Paid parental leave

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Job summary

Dataiku is seeking a Technical Account Manager to partner with strategic clients, guiding deployment, operation, and governance of the Dataiku platform. The role requires deep technical acumen, strong client interaction skills, and hands-on experience across cloud, container, and big data ecosystems.

You will collaborate with Success and engineering teams to align priorities, document best practices, and drive scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a customer facing technical role.
• Comfort and confidence in client-facing interactions.
• Ability to work both pre and post sale.
• Strong Linux system administration experience including networking.
• Experience with authentication and authorization systems like LDAP, Kerberos, AD, and IAM.
• Hands-on experience with cloud based services like AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Hands-on experience with the Kubernetes ecosystem for setup, administration, troubleshooting and tuning.
• Experience with the Hadoop and/or Spark ecosystem for setup, administration, troubleshooting and tuning.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Customer Success and clients to identify priorities and define engagement plans.
• Manage milestones with CS Manager and client, provide status updates, mitigate risks.
• Centralize client technical information and contribute to account strategy.
• Contribute to growth and scalability of Field Engineering via documentation and process improvements.
• Serve as primary technical advisor to customers on platform architecture and operations.
• Assist clients in troubleshooting Dataiku deployment within their systems.
• Ensure feature requests are captured and communicated to product/R&D.
• Advise client tech leaders on new companion technologies and strategies.
• Support innovative Dataiku approaches such as edge computing and advanced MLOps.

Skills

Customer facing

Linux administration

Networking

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Hadoop

Spark

LDAP

Kerberos

AD

IAM

Job description

Dataiku is the Platform for AI Success, the enterprise orchestration layer for building, deploying, and governing AI. In a single environment, teams design and operate analytics, machine learning, and AI agents with the transparency, collaboration, and control enterprises require. Sitting above data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI services, Dataiku connects the full enterprise AI stack - empowering organizations to run AI across multi-vendor environments with centralized governance. The world’s leading companies rely on Dataiku to operationalize AI and run it as a true business performance engine delivering measurable value. For more, visit the Dataiku blog , LinkedIn , X , and YouTube .

Technical Account Managers are highly experienced Architects who are comfortable with a very client facing role and who dedicate themselves to a small set of strategic clients, (~4 per TAM). They must be quick on their feet and able to put a positive spin on challenging customer situations, both in the boardroom with a client CTO and while sharing the command line with a client admin. They must be effective technically, both as communicators and doers. They must be capable of managing and maintaining a client relationship, while keeping a tight organizational watch over the technical aspects of their accounts.

How you'll make an impact

• Work with the Customer Success team and customers to jointly identify near and longer-term priorities and define the associated engagement plan
• Manage milestones with Customer Success Manager and customer and contribute to deliverables, provide regular status updates and proactively identify and mitigate issues/risks
• Centralize the technical information about clients and take part to the account strategy and with the other members of the account team
• Play an active role contributing to the growth and scalability of the Field Engineering team through robust documentation, continuous process optimization, and peers upskilling
• Work with Customer resources as a primary technical advisor, providing guidance and hands‑on support on the following matters: Dataiku platform architecture (initial deployment, expansions), platform operations (upgrades), best practice related to Dataiku usage, security, data management, compute resources, ML‑Ops, Monitoring, etc.
• Help clients troubleshoot the implementation of the product within their systems.
• Ensure that feature requests are effectively recorded and communicated to product and R&D
• Advise client tech leaders on choices around new companion technologies and tech strategies around Dataiku
• Support innovative approaches around Dataiku (edge computing, deep learning, advanced MLOps, for example)

What you'll need to be successful

• 7+ years of experience in a customer facing technical role
• Comfort and confidence in client‑facing interactions
• Ability to work both pre and post sale
• Strong Linux system administration experience including networking
• Experience with authentication and authorization systems like LDAP, Kerberos, AD, and IAM
• Hands‑on experience with cloud based services like AWS, Azure and GCP
• Hands‑on experience with the Kubernetes ecosystem for setup, administration, troubleshooting and tuning
• Experience with the Hadoop and/or Spark ecosystem for setup, administration, troubleshooting and tuning

How you'll stand out

• Experience with Python
• Some knowledge of Java, nice to have
• Some knowledge in ML Ops

Compensation and Benefits

The final compensation package for this role will be determined during the interview process and is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, geographic location, internal equity, education, skill set, experience and training. Eligible roles may also be entitled to receive commission or other variable compensation through Dataiku's incentive compensation program.

Dataiku also offers comprehensive benefits, including stock options, medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, pre‑tax commuter benefits, a 401k company match, paid vacations and sick leave, paid parental leave, employer paid disability coverage, and additional health and wellbeing perks and benefits. Dataiku reserves the right to amend or modify employee perks and benefits at any time.

US only national base pay ranges $150,000 — $200,000 USD

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Therefore, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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