We are seeking a talented Account Manager to guide our engineering teams. This role focuses on partnership and program management, leadership development, forward looking sales and strategic oversight, ensuring our engineering teams perform at the highest level while delivering mission-critical software solutions. The Enterprise Account Manager will leverage their expertise in the commercial drone applications to drive excellence across projects, foster a high-performance culture, and mentor engineering managers and senior technical staff.
In this position, you aren't just managing a team; you are managing the success of our business through the success of our users. You will have a direct impact on customer retention, expansion, and the long-term technical viability of our platform in the market.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Serve as the executive lead for a portfolio of key accounts. You will build deep-rooted trust with the VPs of Engineering, CEO, COO, CTO, and technical stakeholders
- Partner with customers to understand their business goals and map them to our platform capabilities. You will influence the internal product roadmap based on high-value customer feedback. You will over time also anticipate future customer needs and influence our engineering roadmap accordingly
- Act as the "Commander-in-Chief" for critical issues. You will coordinate between Customer Success Managers, solutions engineers, and core engineering to resolve high-priority blockers with transparency and speed
- Translate complex customer needs into actionable requirements for our internal developers, ensuring the "voice of the customer" is never lost in the sprint cycle. You will represent the customers and their needs internally
- Lead and mentor the teams that are in charge of customer success. Help them navigate interpersonal relationships while showing their technical expertise.
- Drive performance management initiatives, including goal setting, regular feedback, and performance evaluations, to build and maintain a high-performing engineering organization
- Work closely with product management, program management, and R&D teams to ensure alignment between engineering deliverables and client requirements
- Partner with business development and client-facing teams to support customer engagement, including proposal development, presentations, and on-site technical support as needed
Qualifications and Skills
- 4+ years in a senior leadership role as program manager, leader of sales, technical teams or high-impact technical projects
- Experience in a customer-facing solutioning role (e.g. Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, or Professional Services) is highly preferred
- The ability to distill complex architectural concepts into clear, executive-level briefings. You are as comfortable in a terminal as you are in a boardroom.
- Exceptional project management skills with the ability to balance long-term strategic initiatives with immediate customer "fires"
- Demonstrated experience with mentorship and coaching, supporting team members' career development and technical growth
- US Citizenship required
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Stock Options
- Unlimited PTO
- Health Insurance (includes dental & vision)
- Medical flex spending
- Life Insurance
- Retirement Plan - 401k with company match
- Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
About Auterion
We are building the leading software platform for AI-powered autonomous systems for enterprise and government customers. Our team is supporting the most important missions and solving the most challenging problems.
At Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. Join a vibrant team built on innovation, openness, and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels, and make an impact that matters.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering in a Full-Stack environment
- 3+ years in a senior leadership role
- Experience in a customer-facing technical role is highly preferred
- Exceptional project management skills
- Demonstrated experience with mentorship and coaching
What We Do
At Auterion we care about providing enterprise with an ecosystem of software-defined drones, payloads, and third party applications within a single easy to use platform based on open-source standards. We’re leaders in an open-source movement bigger than ourselves and we’ve been on the same mission for over a decade, since our co-founder Lorenz Meier created Pixhawk, MAVLink, QGC, and PX4 (the world’s most widely used open-source drone autopilot operating system). Our mission is to be the drone platform of choice for enterprise, government, and drone manufacturers while accelerating the drone industry by driving forward open standards to create a common, future-proof roadmap in a thriving, open ecosystem of buyers and vendors. At Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. Join a vibrant team built on innovation, openness, and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels, and make an impact that matters.
