Technical Account Management (TAM) Leader

About Supabase Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth. About the Role The Technical Account Manager (TAM) Leader owns the health, direction, and performance of the Technical Account Management function. Where an individual TAM is the primary technical partner for their own portfolio of accounts, the TAM Leader is accountable for the entire TAM book — every account covered by the team, every partner relationship with a technical dimension, and the people who deliver against them. The TAM Leader is both a player and a coach: they carry direct accountability for coverage decisions, escalation outcomes, and cross-functional alignment, while spending the majority of their time developing the individual TAMs so the team's proactive, relationship-first approach scales without becoming a response channel. Core Responsibilities People Leadership & Team Development The TAM Leader hires, coaches, and grows the TAM team so each member operates as a credible, proactive technical partner to their accounts. This includes: Hiring and onboarding new TAMs, including running them through the TAM Path ramp Running regular 1:1s, setting individual development plans, and giving direct feedback on account plans, QBRs, and escalation handling Building and maintaining repeatable playbooks (upgrade runbooks, optimization playbooks, escalation patterns) so quality doesn't depend on tenure Setting and holding the team to a consistent bar for technical depth, proactivity, and communication Portfolio & Coverage Ownership The TAM Leader owns the coverage model for the entire function — deciding, tracking, and refreshing who is assigned where, and closing gaps as they surface. This includes the two account universes the role is accountable for: Named accounts — the full book maintained in the Draft TAM Accounts doc , currently ~$33.1M ARR across 120 accounts split across the team, capped at 20 accounts per TAM Partner-mapped accounts — every partner with a named Technical Account Manager in the Partner Mappings , spanning Strategic AI, Growth, and Other tiers Running the quarterly review/refresh of assigned accounts, rebalancing books as ARR and strategic relationships shift Resolving open coverage gaps (e.g. regions or account types with no TAM alignment) and deciding when a controlled exception, a new hire, or a change in tier definition is the right fix Approving leadership-discretion assignments and cap exceptions, and making the trim/reassign calls when an account is dropped for capacity Customer Technical Ownership (oversight) The TAM Leader ensures every assigned account — named or partner-mapped — has a clear, accountable technical owner. They spot-check account documentation, architecture understanding, and risk tracking across the book, and step in d