Senior Technical Account Manager, Post-Sales

Qualys

21h•Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Technical Account Manager (TAM) is a customer-facing expert 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.

Requirements

Self-motivated with strong knowledge of security, compliance and/or monitoring systems and typical business processes.
Bachelor's degree with 6-10 years of relevant experience.
Strong presentation skills and ability 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.
Must be comfortable interacting at all levels within customer organizations, i.e., from front-line technical staff to executives/C-levels.
Able to travel throughout the sales territory to conduct in-person client visits for relationship building and collaboration.
Excellent work ethic with a 'make it happen' attitude.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of major regulations (SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.) as well as 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).
Good understanding of emerging technologies such as DevOps, Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, etc...
'Big 4' or similar consulting experience a plus

Responsibilities

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.
Take ownership of generating accurate and persuasive technical content for formal documentation and creating sales proposals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Perform regular platform health checks and business reviews; share expertise and provide relevant training to maximize customer adoption and utilization.
Continuously track and report on product utilization, demonstrating and ensuring measurable value delivery against the customer's stated business outcomes.
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.
Conduct regular client visits for relationship building and collaboration; help customers align Qualys solutions with regulatory frameworks (CIS, PCI DSS, VAPT, etc.).
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.