Sr. Technical Account Manager

Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.

Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.

Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.


About the opportunity
As a member of the Dayforce organization, known for its fast-growing SaaS product, the Senior Technical Account Manager (Sr. TAM) will provide premium account management services to assigned clients and partner with Client Support Analysts to deliver best-in-class support. The Senior TAM is hands-on with the Dayforce product and demonstrates a strong technical aptitude to collaborate with R&D, Implementation, Professional Services, and other key stakeholders ensuring client success and satisfaction. In addition to managing day-to-day client incidents, the Senior TAM responsibilities include relationship management, defining and delivering of customer success plan, identifying improvement opportunities and recommending best practices, architecting effective application solutions, incident and problem management, upgrade planning and coordination, escalation and crisis management, resource and effort prioritization, and other activities that drive client success. The Senior TAM is a skilled partner and the client’s trusted advisor and finds opportunities to develop a long-term relationship with customers by understanding their business operations and optimizing the Dayforce solution to meet their strategic goals and functional needs. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing leading innovator in next-generation Human Capital Management solutions in a challenging and rewarding role. The ideal candidate is highly energetic, passionate about client management, and thrives in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment.
What you’ll get to do
• Partner with the Customer Success Manager to establish and strengthen executive relationships.
• Drive overall customer success outcomes including value realization, customer growth, retention, and advocacy.
• Understand the big picture and the business your customer is in – connect the dots and translate your customer’s business problems into a viable solution using Dayforce products and services.
• Define and monitor key performance indicators and devise a technical strategy to accomplish and maintain them.
• Analyze your customer’s usage patterns and utilization of the software, develop a game plan to improve user experience, overall adoption and effort reduction.
• Leverage domain and technical expertise to investigate functional and technical issues and deliver best practice recommendations and solutions.
• Play an active role in ensuring that the integration of services and infrastructure architectures are designed and implemented to meet evolving business/operational requirements and standards for reliability, scalability and availability.
• Plan, communicate, support, and drive Dayforce upgrade readiness.
• Meet or exceed targeted Net Promoter Score (NPS) levels and client retention metrics.
• Leverage your strong communication skills to translate technical issues to non-technical counterparts and establish an exceptional level of trust and dependability.
• Solicit customer feedback and partner with internal Dayforce teams to drive product and operational improvements.
• Contribute meaningful content to monthly, quarterly and executive business reviews, including challenges, progress and achievements.
• De-escalate technical issues independently and effectively with some supervision, including critical issues with executive visibility.
• Proactively engage internal and external key stakeholders to drive desired outcomes, anticipating and detecting issues and implementing safeguards to mitigate risks before they happen.
• Acting as an objective customer advocate back into the business, maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction whilst managing client’s expectations.
• Acting as an objective customer advocate back into the business, maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction whilst managing client’s expectations.
• Participate or lead team projects and initiatives.
• Collaborate and lead initiatives cross functionally.
• Support new hires during onboarding, ongoing mentorship for colleagues.
Skills and experience we value
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant software/computer related fields.
• 3-5+ years of experience in Dayforce Consulting, Implementa