Technical Account Manager

About Cognite
Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging AI and data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge offerings including Cognite Atlas AI, an industrial agent workbench, and the Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms & Cognite was recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year. In the realm of industrial digital transformation, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Pharma and other Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

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Global Strategic Services at Cognite is focused on helping our top-tier customers drive successful outcomes through the totality of what Cognite has to offer.

The Global Strategic Services team will embody togetherness through cross-functional collaboration across Cognite. From taking over the baton from Field Engineering in pre-sales to supporting customers beyond First value, collaborating with Value Engineering to build value roadmaps across business divisions, supporting our Service team to deploy, validate and further enhance our Service offering optimized for Value and Adoption, co-developing adoption programs and catalyzing end-user interaction and feedback to Product Management, to working with Customer Enablement to scale learnings into our 1:many initiatives. TAMs will also be a catalyst to help Account Management drive successful Expansions and Renewals.

The Global Strategic Services team at Cognite will be Curious and Open at heart – working to understand and empathize with both our end users as well as different functions within Cognite, in a way that brings out the best in all of us.

At Cognite, Technical Account Managers (TAMs) are trusted advisors responsible for helping strategic customers realize tangible value from Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) and accelerate scalable outcomes. They play a central role in delivering on our Scaling Engine ethos; collaborating across Services, Product, Engineering, and Account Teams to ensure our technology is deployed with excellence, adopted with purpose, and expanded with value.

TAMs lead the technical relationship across the customer lifecycle: from validating architectural decisions during pre-sales, to supporting deployment and operationalization post-First Value, and ultimately co-owning technical alignment for expansion and renewal. They are also essential in enabling our partner ecosystem, ensuring solution integrity, and elevating the Cognite experience through feedback loops to Product and Customer Enablement.

This role is a hybrid role based out of our office in Phoenix, Austin, or Houston
What You'll Do

• Architect with Impact: Work with central customer IT teams to align on a target architecture for CDF across their enterprise and ensure fit within their ecosystem.
• Collaborate Across Pre-Sales and Field Engineering: Partner with Field Engineering and Solution Architects during pre-sales to ensure technical continuity into deployment. TAMs provide customer context and future-state alignment to help accelerate early value realization and ensure a strong post-sale handover.
• Deploy with Confidence: Guide secure solution deployments (IAM, networking, data pipelines), ensuring alignment with Cognite best practices and supportable design.
• Drive Value Realization: Partner with Customer Success, Services Delivery, and Value Engineering to align architecture and use case roadmap with customer business goals.
• Support Scalable Adoption: Co-develop adoption programs, facilitate end-user feedback loops, and support Enablement in scaling best practices across accounts.
• Identify and Surface Expansion Opportunities: Act as a trusted advisor who understands the customer's evolving needs and business priorities. While not responsible for direct sales, TAMs play a critical role in identifying new use cases and scaling opportunities that Customer Business Executives (CBEs) can engage on commercially.
• Catalyze Expansion: Provide technical insight to Account Management and CBEs to accelerate and de-risk expansion and renewal opportunities.
• Activate Partners: Collaborate with Solution Partners and validate technical quality of partner-delivered solutions for your assigned accounts.
• Close the Feedback Loop: Be the voice of the customer to Product and Engineering; especially around product limitations, roadmap priorities, and repeatability.
• Champion Cognite Culture: Model curiosity, empathy, and speed in cross-functional collaboration to bring out the best in our teams and our customers.

Who You Are

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Technology or similar (Masters preferred)
• 5+ years experience (Manager/Director) as a data/solution/enterprise architect, software developer or similar, preferably having worked with one or more of Cognite's target industry domains (O&G, Manufacturing, P&U) and gained familiarity with common source systems, data types etc.
• Proven ability to connect with and coach technical stakeholders, building credible relationships on various levels of the organisation
• Confidence to negotiate requirements with customers and colleagues, preferably with experience from consulting
• Experience with technical topics such as enterprise integration strategies and design, data and analytics stacks, public cloud, identity providers and network security concepts
• Experience hosting technical sessions with customers and colleagues, including workshops, demos and similar
• Experience with Git, CI/CD and deployment environments

Traits That Make You Thrive Here

• You are structured, detailed, and value operational excellence.
• You embrace a DevOps mindset and believe in scalable, supportable design.
• You take initiative and follow through on commitments.
• You believe in shared success and bring positive energy to collaboration.
• You are passionate about Cognite's mission — and want to be part of a team that's building something bold.
• You want to have fun while delivering world-class outcomes.

Why choose Cognite?

• Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world.
• We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day.
• Cognite Earns 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award; Recognized as a Global Leader in Energy & Resources and Industrials & Manufacturing
• Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader
• Built In 2024 Best Places to Work in Austin, TX and Houston, TX
• Cognite Recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year
• Most recently Cognite Data Fusion Achieved Industry First DNV Compliance for Digital Twins

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

• Competitive compensation
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Competitive health, dental, vision & disability coverages for employees and all dependents
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid Parental Leave Program
• Employee Referral Program
• Join a team of 60+ different nationalities with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus .
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @ cognitedata to know more
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
• Join our HUB to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
• Paid mobile phone and WiFI

All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship for employment visa status.
Equal Opportunity
Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment; everyone we hire will receive the same level of consideration for training, compensation, and promotion.
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