Full-Time

Technical Account Manager

Orkes

Orkes

51-200 employees

Managed platform for distributed system orchestration

No salary listed

Remote in Australia

Remote

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • Strong technical background, with experience in software, cloud services, or IT infrastructure
  • Ability to understand complex technical issues and communicate solutions effectively
  • Ability to develop workflows and build custom workers using our SDKs
  • Ability to guide customers on customer hosted worker configuration and scalability
  • Ability to guide customers on disaster recovery and multi-cluster architecture approaches
  • Demonstrated experience in a customer-facing role, preferably in technical account management, customer success, or technical support
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and rapport with customers
  • Proven ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, with a strong attention to detail
  • Experience with project management tools and methodologies
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and make data-driven decisions
  • Ability to handle difficult situations and provide effective solutions under pressure
  • 5+ years experience in enterprise level client-facing work
  • Experience with project management tools and methodologies
Responsibilities
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned customers, developing a deep understanding of their business and technical environments
  • Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key stakeholders
  • Regularly engage with customers to ensure satisfaction, address concerns, and understand their evolving needs
  • Provide expert technical guidance and support to customers, ensuring the successful implementation and operation of the company’s products
  • Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, collaborating with internal technical teams as needed
  • Develop and deliver technical training and product demonstrations to customers
  • Monitor and report on the status of customer accounts, including usage metrics, service adoption, and potential upsell opportunities
  • Proactively identify and address risks to customer success and retention
  • Work closely with sales and customer success teams to ensure alignment on account strategies and goals
  • Act as a customer advocate within the company, ensuring customer feedback is heard and acted upon
  • Collaborate with product management and development teams to influence product roadmaps based on customer feedback and needs
  • Oversee the delivery of technical projects for customers, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and to the customer's satisfaction
  • Manage project timelines, resources, and budgets, providing regular updates to customers and internal stakeholders
  • Stay current with industry trends and best practices to provide innovative solutions to customers
  • Continuously seek opportunities to improve customer experience and internal processes
  • Demonstrated experience in a customer-facing role, preferably in technical account management, customer success, or technical support
  • Operations savvy mindset, with an ability to identify and eliminate process friction while continuing to build scalable processes
  • Experience practicing in small to medium scale project management
  • Strong organizational skills and self-starting mindset
Desired Qualifications
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Status: Full Time
  • Type: Remote
  • Location: Australia
  • Department: Sales
  • Reports to: Head of Revenue
  • 5+ years experience in enterprise level client-facing work
  • Strong technical background, with experience in software, cloud services, or IT infrastructure
  • Demonstrated experience in a customer-facing role, preferably in technical account management, customer success, or technical support
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and rapport with customers
  • Proven ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, with a strong attention to detail
  • Experience with project management tools and methodologies
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and make data-driven decisions
  • Ability to handle difficult situations and provide effective solutions under pressure

Orkes.io provides a platform to build, scale, and observe distributed systems using Orkes Conductor, which lets users model business logic like a whiteboard while coding components in their preferred language and framework. The product runs at scale with minimal setup and offers end-to-end observability across the distributed landscape. It can be deployed as fully managed clusters hosted by Orkes or installed in the client’s cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, or private cloud) and includes native access control, SSO, and audit logs for governance. Its goal is to help developers and enterprises efficiently build, modernize, and manage distributed applications with governance, scalability, and visibility, while supporting an active community of Conductor developers and architects.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$89.3M

Headquarters

Cupertino, California

Founded

2020

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • $60M Series B from AVP in April 2026 triples customers to 3,000 enterprises like Twilio and LinkedIn.
  • Gartner forecasts $450B AI spending in 2026, fueling Orkes' production AI agent deployments.
  • Naveo Commerce uses Orkes for real-time global inventory monitoring and disruption resolution.

What critics are saying

  • Temporal.io steals Conductor users with Rust durability, triggering migrations in 6-12 months.
  • Camunda 8.5 BPMN integration wins finance compliance audits over Orkes JSON in 12-18 months.
  • Netflix's 2023 Conductor abandonment leaves OSS unpatched, forcing paid Orkes migrations now.

What makes Orkes unique

  • Orkes Conductor, built by Netflix's original architects in 2016, adds enterprise AI orchestration to open-source workflows.
  • Agentspan platform converts natural language prompts into editable workflows with built-in governance.
  • Over 20 system tasks enable no-code HTTP, LLM, and event integrations without custom workers.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

7%

2 year growth

8%
Startup Story Media
Feb 22nd, 2024
Orkes Secures $20M Funding Round Led by Nexus Venture Partners

Abhishek Sharma, Nexus Managing Director, who led the investment, will join Orkes' board.

Orkes
Feb 22nd, 2024
Orkes has raised a $20M Series A to power our next phase of growth

Orkes Platform makes it easy for developers to build higly reliable, distributed stateful applications

The Economic Times
Feb 22nd, 2024
Nexus Venture Partners leads $20 million funding at DevOps startup Orkes

Nexus Venture Partners, a US- and India-based venture capital major, has led a $25 million funding round in Orkes, an orchestration-focussed DevOps (developer operations) startup.

FinSMEs
Feb 21st, 2024
Orkes Raises $20M in Funding

Orkes raises $20M in funding.

TechCrunch
Feb 21st, 2024
Microservices Orchestration Platform Orkes Raises $20M Series A

Back in 2016, Netflix open-sourced Conductor, its microservices orchestration platform, but last December, it announced that it would discontinue maintaining it. Thankfully, for the many companies that rely on it, the creators of Conductor had previously left the company to launch Orkes, a startup that provides an enterprise-grade microservices platform based on the open-source project. Orkes took over the maintenance of Conductor for the time being and today the company announced that it has now raised a $20 million Series A on top of its $9.3 million seed round in 2022. The new round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures US.The team built Conductor at Netflix in 2015, in part to help the development teams there keep pace with the rapid growth of the company and its needs. As Orkes co-CTO Viren Baraiya told me, the project quickly became popular within Netflix. “One of the things that we realized very quickly was that there is no kind of secret sauce here for Netflix