Sr. Technical Account Manager

Senior Technical Account Manager

FLSA Status: Full Time, Exempt

Location: 100% Remote with 15–20% travel

About Pulselight

Pulselight is transforming how state and federal health and human services agencies use data to improve program integrity, strengthen oversight, and improve health outcomes. Our configurable SaaS analytics and workflow solutions empower agency leaders with actionable insights that improve the lives of the individuals they serve. Our mission is to deliver innovative technology that helps these agencies make faster, smarter, and more informed decisions. We are a privately held company that values curiosity, serving customers, collaboration, and innovation.

Role Overview

The Senior Technical Account Manager is an individual contributor responsible for the overall success of a portfolio of enterprise HHS customers. This role serves as the primary strategic partner throughout the customer lifecycle from discovery, implementation planning, data onboarding and configuration through launch, adoption, value realization, renewal, and growth. Success is measured by delivering solutions that customers operationalize, adopt, and expand to achieve meaningful business outcomes. The role combines enterprise SaaS solution delivery, account management, customer success, stakeholder management, change management, and consultative problem solving.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Customer Partnership

• Serve as the primary relationship owner and advisor for assigned HHS agency customers, building trusted relationships with executive sponsors, operational leaders, and stakeholders.
• Develop and execute account success plans that align customer priorities with Pulselight capabilities and business objectives.
• Maintain a deep understanding of each customer's mission, organization, strategic initiatives, priorities, technology landscape, funding environment, and operational challenges.
• Owns the overall health of customer relationships by proactively identifying risks and opportunities related to implementation success, adoption, satisfaction, retention, and growth.
• Provide regular account health updates to company leadership, sharing customer sentiment, implementation status, adoption metrics, strategic risks, and expansion opportunities.

Solution Delivery & Customer Success

• Guide customers through the complete SaaS solution lifecycle, including discovery, data acquisition and onboarding, solution configuration, validation, training, launch and optimization.
• Coordinate cross-functional resources to implement and deliver customer solutions while balancing schedule, scope, priorities, customer expectations, and contract commitments.
• Proactively identify, manage, and communicate risks and dependencies throughout implementation and ongoing operations. Define mitigation plans and track to resolution.
• Align Pulselight product capabilities with customer’s organization and business processes. Identify workflow and organizational changes required to realize value.

Adoption & Value Realization

• Partner with Pulselight's training team to build and execute training and onboarding plans.
• Drive sustained product adoption by partnering with customer leaders to remove barriers, support organizational change, and improve user engagement.
• Establish and monitor customer success measures including adoption, utilization, customer satisfaction, outcomes and realized business value.
• Conduct periodic business reviews with executive sponsors to review success measures, business value, account health, priorities, and opportunities for partnership growth.

Growth & Product Partnership

• Identify opportunities to expand Pulselight solution footprint within existing and adjacent customer agencies, partnering with Sales to develop and advance pursuit strategies.
• Translate customer challenges and synthesize user feedback into product recommendations.
• Capture lessons learned and share success strategies, implementation approaches, and best practices with the organization.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 15+ years of experience managing enterprise SaaS B2B customer relationships, including account management, customer success, solution delivery, or other customer-facing leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success owning and leading the full SaaS delivery lifecycle, including: discovery, data onboarding, configuration, launch, training, adoption, value realization, renewal and growth.
• Demonstrated experience delivering and supporting technology solutions for state or federal HHS agencies, including leading relationships with agency executives and program leaders.
• Demonstrated experience leading the implementation of data analytics, decision-support, workflow, or other complex and configurable SaaS applications.
• Experience helping customers generate insights and improve operational decisions through the analysis of healthcare data, such as claims, enrollment, EHR, incident, or case management data.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with executive sponsors while remaining hands-on in customer delivery and problem solving.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including the ability to understand customer priorities, funding strategies, procurement processes, operational performance, and ROI.
• Experience identifying and developing opportunities to grow existing customer accounts through consultative discovery and solution development.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority and exercise sound judgment in complex customer situations.

Why Join Pulselight?

At Pulselight you can influence customer success, product evolution, and company growth while working alongside experienced leaders in a collaborative, innovative culture. Pulselight offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, company paid life and disability insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, a vacation travel stipend, and a generous PTO plan.

This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Pulselight is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer.