Senior Specialist, Technical Account Manager

Company Description

We’re Checkout.com – you might not know our name, but companies like eBay, ASOS, Klarna, Uber Eats, and Sony do. That moment when you check out online? We make it happen.

Checkout.com is where the world checks out. Our global network powers billions of transactions every year, making money move without making a fuss. We spent years perfecting a service most people will never notice. Because when digital payments just work, businesses grow, customers stay, and no one stops to think about why.

With 19 offices spanning six continents, we feel at home everywhere – but London is our HQ. Wherever our people work their magic, they’re fast-moving, performance-obsessed, and driven by being better every day. Ideal. Because a role here isn’t just another job; it’s a career-defining opportunity to build the future of fintech.

Job Description

As a Senior Specialist, Technical Account Manager at Checkout.com, you will be instrumental in building and maintaining strategic relationships with key clients, ensuring their satisfaction by resolving their technical issues, optimizing their payment solutions and delivering exceptional service with your technical expertise and strong interpersonal skills.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Relationship Management: Build and nurture long-term relationships with key clients, serving as their primary point of contact for technical matters.
• Customer Success: Understand our clients' business needs and goals, proactively identify opportunities to optimize their payment solutions, and ensure successful adoption and utilization of our products.
• Technical Support: Provide expert guidance and troubleshooting assistance to clients, addressing their technical inquiries, resolving issues promptly, and ensuring minimal disruption to their payment infrastructure through deep understanding of their integrations and how our products work together.
• Training and Demo: Help upselling efforts with merchant demonstrations and technical training - hold workshops and refreshers on our product offering to keep clients up-to-date with new features and deliverables.
• Project Management: Lead and coordinate the addition of new payment solutions as well as technical migrations for clients as they expand with Checkout.com, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery within agreed timelines and specifications.
• Product Feedback: Act as a conduit between clients and internal teams, gathering customer feedback, documenting feature requests, and providing client derived insights to enable continuous improvement of our product roadmap.
• Market Intelligence: Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes in the payments landscape, sharing relevant insights with clients to help them navigate the evolving landscape.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in an analytical or technical role with experience managing internal and external stakeholders. This ideally includes effective presentation skills.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Economics, Statistics) is desirable or equivalent practical experience in internet technologies and technical processes.
• Familiarity with Payments industry regulations and technical frameworks (3DS, SCA, AVS, MIT).
• Familiarity with API-based integration methods and related tools/frameworks.
• Familiarity with front and back end technologies (i.e. JavaScript, CSS, HTML etc).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Results-oriented approach with a focus on delivering exceptional customer satisfaction.
• Knowledge of payments technology, compliance standards, and security protocols related to payments (e.g., PCI-DSS, PSD2) is a plus.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to client sites as required.

Key skills/competency

• Technical Account Management
• Client Relationship Management
• Payment Solutions Optimization
• Technical Troubleshooting
• API Integrations
• Customer Success
• Project Management
• Fintech Industry Knowledge
• Payment Regulations (3DS, SCA)
• Stakeholder Management