Technical Account Executive - EMEA
WFA Digital Insight
The Technical Account Executive role at Posthog stands out due to its unique blend of commercial and technical skills required to succeed. Posthog's product-led approach, intense focus on autonomy, and ambition to solve big problems make it an intriguing company for those looking to make a significant impact. Candidates should be prepared for a role that values transparency, ships fast, and prioritizes building time over meetings, indicating a highly productive work environment.
Job Description
ABOUT POSTHOG Product development used to mean manually writing code, running analysis, diagnosing bugs, and rolling out changes using dozens of tools. PostHog is the only platform that acts like a co-pilot for you (and your AI agents) to do it all – autonomously. We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort https://posthog.com/handbook/story. We've since shipped more than a dozen products https://posthog.com/products, including: - PostHog Code https://posthog.com/code, the only AI devtool that understands your product, not just your codebase.
- A built-in data warehouse https://posthog.com/docs/data-warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
- PostHog AI https://posthog.com/ai, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.
- Well-funded. We've raised more than $180m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey. We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible https://posthog.com/deskhog. THINGS WE CARE ABOUT - Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook https://posthog.com/handbook.
- Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on.
- Shipping fast: Why not now? https://posthog.com/handbook/values#why-not-now We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace.
- Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack.
- Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying.
- Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy https://posthog.com/deskhog with dubious shareholder value.
- Owning customer feedback and making sure it gets to the wider PostHog team. You’ll work directly with product teams, we don’t believe in bureaucracy here.
- Being hyper responsive is a must.
- You’ll need to be an expert on all PostHog products, so that you can help customers see the value and adopt them.
- Comfortable with outbound. You'll earn meetings through relevance and creativity – not through volume and pressure.
- Switching contexts comfortably. Prospect and triage leads in the morning, enterprise evaluation in the afternoon, async Loom response to a customer question in between. You adjust tone, depth, and approach for each without losing quality.
- Turning both inbound and outbound lead flow into a real pipeline that converts.
- ❌ Automating everything.
- Commercially-minded. You’re excited about not only helping customers go from 0 to 1 with PostHog - but also growing and retaining revenue.
- Strong customer focus. You need to help our users and remove any blockers to them using Posthog effectively.
- Good at handling relationships strategically. Helping a customer achieve their goals over time, expanding their usage and buying more and more products from us as they do so, while saying no to customers who we’re not right for.
- You write well.
- You’ve managed a book of business and/or are comfortable leading multi-threaded deal cycles across various technical organizations, legal and procurement.
- You've built outbound campaigns before – not just executed someone else's sequences.
- You've shipped something (a tool, a workflow, an automation) that made your team more effective.
How to Stand Out
- Tailor your application: Ensure your resume and cover letter are tailored to the Technical Account Executive role, highlighting your technical and commercial skills.
- Prepare for a technical interview: Be ready to discuss your experience with Adjust and other relevant technologies, as well as your understanding of software development principles.
- Research Posthog's products: Familiarize yourself with Posthog's suite of products, including PostHog Code and PostHog AI, to understand how they can be leveraged to meet customer needs.
- Demonstrate autonomy and initiative: Show examples of times when you took the initiative in previous roles, as autonomy is a key value at Posthog.
- Be prepared to discuss customer success stories: Think about times when you have successfully grown customer relationships or helped them achieve their goals through your work, and be ready to share these stories.
- Ask informed questions: Prepare a list of questions to ask during the interview, focusing on the company culture, product roadmap, and expectations for the role.
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