Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff.
Technical Account Manager
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Worldwide
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7 days ago
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Lead
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Technical Account Manager
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Role Description As a Technical Account Manager at Ellucian, you will serve as a strategic advisor and orchestration lead for higher-education institutions undergoing SaaS transformation and modernization. With the rise of AI/automation and cloud-native operations, you will guide customers in evolving their technology and processes — from legacy models to modern, intelligent service delivery. You will align Ellucian’s SaaS platform, AI/ML capabilities and service-delivery ecosystem to institutional priorities, delivering measurable outcomes around modernization, process efficiency and student lifecycle success. Where you will make an impact - Customer Ownership & Strategic Engagement: - Be the designated technical leader for a portfolio of higher-education accounts. - Build trusted relationships with executive, IT, academic and operations stakeholders. - Proactively engage to understand strategic priorities, define value outcomes and shape the customer modernization roadmap. - Modernization Leadership: - Drive customer modernization by assessing current state, defining desired future state (cloud-native, SaaS operations, API/integration maturity, process automation), and executing the transition roadmap. - Help decommission legacy infrastructure, adopt new solutions and modules, integrations, workflows and best practices. - AI & Service-Process Orchestration: - Design and operationalize AI-enabled workflows and service-delivery processes: e.g., predictive risk alerting, automated remediation, intelligent routing, usage-based insights. - Partner with internal AI/data science/product teams to introduce, integrate and scale intelligent features, and translate model outputs into customer actions. - Technical Architecture & Guidance: - Understand and guide how Ellucian’s SaaS applications, integrations, APIs and cloud services operate together to meet institutional needs. - Provide best-practice advice on architecture, performance, scalability, security, cost-optimization and operational excellence in the SaaS era. - Incident, Escalation & Resilience Management: - Lead high-priority issue resolution, coordinate across support, engineering and customer teams, employ AI-based diagnostics and log-analysis tools, and drive continuous improvement in service reliability and customer confidence. - Value Insight & Optimization: - Use telemetry, usage analytics, machine-learning models and other data-driven tools to surface gaps, predict risk (e.g., churn, non-usage), and recommend proactive interventions, optimization opportunities and cost-saving strategies. - Cross-Functional Collaboration & Advocacy: - Serve as the customer’s voice within Ellucian: coordinate across product, delivery, implementation, sales and support teams; ensure seamless customer experience; feed customer feedback into product roadmaps; drive internal readiness for modernization initiatives. - Outcome-Driven Performance: - Drive attainment of key customer metrics — usage growth, modernization milestones, SLA/SLO compliance, CSAT/NPS, renewal and expansion. - You will manage your account health and lead regular executive business reviews. Qualifications - Minimum of 3-5 years in a technical customer-facing or account management role in a SaaS, EdTech or higher-education environment. - Proven experience in a SaaS/cloud context (AWS, Azure, GCP) — including services delivery, monitoring, integrations/APIs, cloud-native operations. - Experience designing and/or operating AI-driven workflows, automation, predictive analytics, intelligent routing or similar. - Familiarity with generative-AI tools and workflow automation (e.g., GPT-based assistants) to streamline tasks and drive productivity. - Hands-on familiarity with monitoring/log-management tools (e.g., Datadog, Amazon CloudWatch, NewRelic), and service-management/ITSM frameworks (ITIL, ITSM). - Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship-building skills. - Ability to translate complex technical jargon into business outcomes for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholder relationships and priorities in a fast-paced environment, drive transformation initiatives and deliver measurable outcomes. - Knowledge of higher-education institutional workflows (student lifecycle, registration, learning management, finance) is a strong plus. - AWS certification(s) strongly preferred; experience managing Linux systems and OSI-layer knowledge are also advantageous. Benefits - Comprehensive health insurance reimbursement. - Life insurance. - Wellness benefits. - 17 workdays vacation. - Christmas bonus payout in June & December. - Thrive Flex Program that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests. - 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us. - Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Women in Technology, Pride and Go Green to name a few. - Parental leave. - Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team.
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