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As a Technical Account Manager (TAM) on the Automattic Special Projects team, your primary responsibility is ensuring partners have an excellent experience with WordPress and Automattic products— from initial partner onboarding through the entire support and maintenance lifecycle of a site. This involves close collaboration with our partners, designers, and developers to actualize partner requests, while also providing valuable feedback for product improvement to Automattic's teams.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Working closely with our partners to resolve their incoming requests with high precision.
- Managing and tracking partner requests that involve support from designers and developers, ensuring all requirements are outlined accurately and resolutions are timely.
- Diving into WordPress and WooCommerce configurations, setup, and site building.
- Handling site migrations and basic DNS configuration.
- Communicating effectively and proactively with our partners to ensure all their site needs are being met.
Responsibilities:
- Helping our partners use Automattic’s products—particularly WordPress, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and Sensei LMS.
- Troubleshooting, investigating, and writing detailed GitHub Issues.
- Sharing knowledge, tools, and tips to help team members.
- Cultivating strong relationships with our partners to understand their business/operational needs and how Automattic’s products can meet those needs.
- Communicating clearly and effectively to a diverse set of partners with varying levels of technical aptitude.
Requirements:
- An advanced level of WordPress admin expertise, including:
- Experience designing, publishing, and debugging content using the WordPress Block Editor.
- Understanding how a website makes use of Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types.
- Ability to identify which themes and plugins are active on a site, and what they are responsible for.
- Excellent English writing and communication skills, with an aptitude for taking technical language and making it understandable.
- Ability to triage requests, escalating needs outside the skillset/scope of the role to other team members.
- Comfortable creating structure in ambiguous situations and pursuing a clear path forward.
- Effective problem solving, conflict resolution, and context-switching.
- Distilling goals and wishlists into concrete next steps.
- Remaining undaunted by managing risks in high-stakes situations.
- An eye for detail, and an innate desire to close out all items on a project checklist.
We are currently prioritizing candidates who work during typical business hours in the Pacific time zone (approximately 16:00 to 02:00 UTC).
Salary range: $85,000-$130,000 USD. Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.
We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated.
We’re pleased to offer a straightforward, competitive base salary, providing financial clarity without complex variable components. This isn’t your typical work-from-home job: we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves. #LI-Remote
About Automattic
We’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.
We’re a distributed company with more than 1700 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Enriched by this diversity, we’re united by a singular mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source. In short, we help maintain a balance in society, creating and continually refining powerful tools people can use to compete fairly—regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.
We believe in Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL. Automattic is a Most Loved Company and Disability Confident Committed. (Here’s what that might mean for you.) Learn more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion and our Employee Resource Groups.
If you need disability-related accommodations during the application or interview process, please fill out this form. We are committed to ensuring an accessible hiring process for all candidates.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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