Technical Account Manager (German speaker)
Yokoy
IT, Sales & Business Development
Barcelona, Spain
Posted on Mar 25, 2025
At Yokoy, our vision is simple: empower companies to save money on every dollar they spend. We’re shaping a future where businesses handle their finances efficiently, securely, and compliantly - minimizing manual effort through the power of AI and automation. Backed by world-class investors, trusted by hundreds of global customers, and driven by a team of over 250 exceptional minds, we’re on a mission to revolutionize the way companies manage their spending. But that’s not everything: recently, Yokoy has been acquired by TravelPerk, the hypergrowth global business travel platform, bringing together two best-in-class platforms that are transforming the way companies operate.
Are you excited about working in a fast-paced environment alongside a passionate and ambitious team? Join us on our mission to revolutionize the travel and spend management industry! Join us as our new Technical Account Manager in Barcelona and help us achieve our goals! 🚀
As a Technical Account Manager (TAM) at Yokoy, you will play a crucial role by serving as a dedicated point of contact for our high value, enterprise customers. The TAM is responsible for understanding the unique needs and objectives of each customer, providing expert guidance on program setup and maintenance, ensuring faster support response times, and assisting with minor configuration changes. This role requires a deep understanding of our technology, exceptional communication skills, and a commitment to delivering outstanding customer service.
🧑🏽💻 What you’ll do:
- Establish and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with assigned customers.
- Act as the primary point of contact, ensuring customers have a dedicated resource for all their technical needs.
- Understand customer goals, challenges, and expectations to provide tailored support.
- Develop an in-depth understanding of Yokoy’s products, services, and technology stack.
- Provide technical guidance and expertise to customers, helping them optimise their use of our products to meet their business objectives.
- Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to offer proactive recommendations to customers.
- Expedite support requests and ensure timely resolution of customer issues by working closely with the Customer Care team.
- Act as an escalation point for complex technical problems, ensuring that customers' concerns are addressed promptly and effectively.
- Assist customers with minor configuration changes, helping them adapt the technology to evolving business requirements.
- Collaborate with the customer to identify and implement configuration improvements that enhance their experience.
- Where larger changes to the program are needed, collaborate closely with our Professional Services team and/or our Partner ecosystem to ensure that the customer’s needs are met.
- Develop and maintain account plans for each customer, outlining goals, strategies, and action items to achieve mutual success.
- Monitor customer progress and proactively identify opportunities for improvement or upsell in collaboration with the Customer Success Team.
- Provide regular updates to customers on product enhancements, feature releases, and relevant news.
- Generate and share reports on customer usage, performance metrics, and KPIs to demonstrate value and ROI.
- Collaborate with Customer Care, Customer Success, Professional Services and Sales teams to ensure a unified approach in delivering exceptional customer service.
- Share customer feedback and insights internally to influence product roadmaps and improvements.
⚒️ What you’ll need:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering) or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in a technical role, preferably in a customer-facing capacity with enterprise customers.
- Proven track record of successfully managing customer relationships and delivering technical solutions.
- Strong technical aptitude with the ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
- Problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically under pressure.
- Project management skills to handle multiple accounts and tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
- Customer-centric mindset with a commitment to delivering exceptional service
- Fluent in both German and English, other languages are a plus.
🚀 What you’ll get:
- Resources and trust: you own your work and shape things from day one.
- Flat hierarchies: opportunity to work closely with the founders and the leadership team.
- Fast-paced environment: quickly measure and learn about the impact of your work.
- Flexibility: everyone has their own highly productive times - we look at the output and not at what time it was produced.
- Hybrid setup: We enjoy IRL sessions (in-real-life), our teams work together in-person three days a week.
- Competitive scale-up package with the possibility to partake in the upside.
- Work anywhere: we offer up to 6 weeks remote work within the EU
We are keen to get to know you. Apply with your CV and/or LinkedIn profile and a few words on why you would like to join Yokoy. We look forward to your application!
👉🏽 What’s going to happen next: we aim to get back to you regarding your application within 8 business days. Our interview process tends to take around 4 weeks to complete. If you need more flexibility or are on a tighter schedule, don’t be afraid to let us know.
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This is important to us: Yokoy is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We welcome people from all backgrounds who are looking to make the future simple with us. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
Yokoy provides a leading all-in-one solution to automate spend management for midsize and enterprise companies through artificial intelligence (AI). We bring together expense management, invoice processing and the administration of intelligence corporate cards on a single, intuitive platform. As TravelPerk acquired Yokoy recently, the offering will be extended to an end-to-end platform for travel and expenses.
🏢 Established in 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland, Yokoy is trusted by leaders at over 700 of the world’s most forward-thinking companies to help them transform how they spend, by transforming how their people spend their time. Designed to sit at the heart of the modern finance tech stack, Yokoy connects with the leading ERP systems, invoicing platforms, travel booking tools, and other enterprise finance tools to power end-to-end automation and provide complete visibility across the enterprise. Yokoy is backed by leading investors including California-based Sequoia Capital, New York-based Left Lane Capital and London-based Balderton Capital. Currently, Yokoy counts more than 250 employees based in seven locations globally. Yokoy is ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 27001 certified. Yokoy will be integrated into TravelPerk in the coming months, resulting in a new service offering including an end-to-end Travel and Spend Management platform.