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Technical Account Manager

Loft Labs is the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for creating and managing virtual Kubernetes clusters to improve multi-tenancy, efficiency, and developer productivity.

vCluster Labs

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 150k-175k USD

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As a Technical Account Manager at vCluster, you aren't just managing accounts — you are the primary architect of customer outcomes after the deal closes. Sitting at the intersection of technical depth and customer strategy, you ensure our customers — from hyper-growth AI Clouds to Global Fortune 500 enterprises — realize the full value of their investment and keep expanding it.

You are not a reactive support resource. You are a proactive partner who drives adoption, identifies expansion opportunities, and spots churn before it becomes visible. You build deep relationships with Platform Engineering leaders, DevOps teams, and executive buyers alike — and you can talk credibly with all of them.

Your Role and Impact:

  • Onboarding Ownership: Lead end-to-end customer onboardings — from the sales handoff through to project close. You coordinate architecture workshops, platform installation, access setup, integration configuration, and operational readiness reviews. You set the tone for how customers experience vCluster from day one.

  • Success Planning: Build and maintain customer success plans that document business objectives, KPIs, adoption milestones, and a forward plan. You treat the success plan as a living document that drives every customer conversation, not a one-time deliverable that sits in a folder.

  • Value Articulation: Translate platform adoption into business outcomes. You connect Tenant Cluster growth, provisioning time savings, and developer self-service enablement to the metrics your customers care about — cost efficiency, engineering velocity, risk reduction, and platform ROI. When it's time to renew or expand, the business case is already built.

  • Proactive Engagement: Own the customer relationship cadence — regular check-ins, Quarterly Business Reviews, and Executive Business Reviews. You do not wait for the customer and you run executive reviews that reinforce strategic partnership, not just feature updates.

  • Technical Credibility: Hold credible technical conversations with platform engineers, DevOps leads, and architects. You understand the vCluster architecture well enough to discuss Tenant Cluster deployment patterns, RBAC, Tenant Isolation, integrations, and Day 2 operations. You can independently assist the customer with their technical challenges and design optimal deployment architectures.

  • Renewal and Expansion: Own the renewal motion for your accounts — starting 90+ days out. You recognise expansion triggers — new use cases, AI/GPU workloads, additional Tenant Clusters, tier upgrades — and you work with the Account Executive and Solutions Engineer to convert them into growth that solves real customer problems.

  • Customer Advocacy: Serve as the internal voice of your customers. You represent their feature requests, escalate blockers, and provide actionable feedback to Product and Engineering grounded in real account context — not anecdote.

This Role is a Fit for You If:

  • Proven Post-Sales Experience: You have experience in a technical post-sales role — customer success, technical account management, or professional services — with a track record of driving adoption and measurable business outcomes across a portfolio of technical customers.

  • Technical Credibility: You have hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. You can engage with platform engineers on architecture questions, discuss RBAC and Tenant Isolation patterns, and hold your ground in a conversation about cloud infrastructure without bluffing. You know when to bring in deeper technical resources.

  • Stakeholder Range: You can run an executive business review with a Head of Technology in the morning and troubleshoot an onboarding question with a platform engineer in the afternoon. You adapt your communication without losing depth or credibility in either direction.

  • Structured and Proactive: You operate with a clear framework — success plans, adoption milestones, renewal timelines — and you don't need to be reminded to use them. You identify risk before the customer tells you about it.

  • Commercial Awareness: You understand what drives renewal and expansion in a SaaS or platform business. You surface growth opportunities that solve real customer problems, not just opportunities that look good on a pipeline report.

Bonus Points For:

  • Kubernetes certification (CKA or CKAD) or equivalent demonstrated technical depth in cloud-native infrastructure.

  • Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, GPU compute environments, or customers building internal developer platforms at scale.

  • Background working with regulated industries — financial services, healthcare, or public sector -- where compliance and governance add complexity to technical decisions.

  • Contributions to the Kubernetes or open-source ecosystem.

  • Experience at a Series B-D startup where you've operated with autonomy and helped build a repeatable post-sales motion from the ground up.

About vCluster Labs

We are a venture-backed tech startup and the company pioneering Kubernetes virtualization for the AI era. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture.

We are the leading platform for operating GPU infrastructure, enabling AI Cloud providers to deliver a hyperscaler-like experience to their customers and AI factories that need to build that same experience for their internal teams. Our platform delivers the full operational stack operators need to run their GPU data centers — managed Kubernetes, fast isolated tenant provisioning, and automated node provisioning and lifecycle management — enabling them to accelerate time to value, reduce operational burden, and maximize the ROI of every GPU.

We're the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (10k+ GitHub stars, 40M+ virtual clusters created since 2021). Open source is part of our DNA. At KubeCon North America 2025, we launched our Infrastructure Tenancy Platform for AI — a Kubernetes-native framework purpose-built for running AI, ML, and GPU-intensive workloads anywhere, with an NVIDIA-validated reference architecture for DGX systems.

Benefits

We offer the following benefits:

  • Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.

  • Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).

  • Flexible Working Schedule: You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.

  • Workplace Flexibility: We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

Culture & Values

At vCluster Labs, we value and stand for:

  1. Make it Happen: We have a relentless bias for action and the grit to push through obstacles. We do whatever it takes to figure it out, put in the work, and ruthlessly prioritize the actions that drive measurable impact for the business.

  2. Own the Outcome: We understand that our responsibility doesn't end when a task is checked off; it ends when the value is delivered. We connect our daily individual actions to the broader success of the company and our customers.

  3. Create Wow: We measure success by the experience we generate, both inside and outside the company. For our customers, this means impressive speed and intuitive experiences. For our team, this means going the extra mile to support one another and to continuously drive each other to new heights.

  4. Open Source, Open Mind: We are actively contributing to and maintaining open-source projects. Internally, we foster meritocracy — the strongest ideas win, no matter who or where they come from.

  5. Build Tomorrow’s Standards, Intentionally: We don't just ship software; we define the state-of-the-art of tomorrow. We are fearless in tearing down old approaches to build something better, but we are disciplined in how we do it because we know our users rely on our technology to run mission-critical infrastructure platforms.

Compensation Range: $150K - $175K

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At the heart of Loft Labs is a culture deeply rooted in open-source and a relentless drive to empower platform engineers. The company, the driving force behind the innovative vCluster technology, was born from the realization that Kubernetes, while powerful, presented significant challenges in multi-tenancy, efficiency, and accessibility. This understanding fuels their mission to virtualize the cloud-native stack, making Kubernetes lighter, faster, and more cost-effective for organizations of all sizes. The team at Loft Labs operates with a remote-first mindset, fostering a global and inclusive environment that mirrors the distributed nature of the technology they build. This flexibility allows them to attract top talent from around the world, creating a diverse team united by a shared passion for solving complex engineering problems.

The core values at Loft Labs revolve around technical excellence, customer obsession, and impressive speed. They are committed to building best-in-class technology, knowing their users are fellow engineers who appreciate high-quality, well-documented software. This commitment extends to their vibrant open-source community, where they actively engage with users, solicit feedback, and iterate quickly to meet the evolving needs of the cloud-native ecosystem. This user-centric approach is a cornerstone of their culture, ensuring that every feature and product enhancement is driven by a genuine desire to improve the developer experience. By fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and a deep respect for the open-source community, Loft Labs is not just building tools; they are shaping the future of cloud-native development and empowering engineering teams to build and scale their platforms with unprecedented velocity and efficiency.

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Competitive Salary

We tend to pay higher wages than other startups.

Equity Incentive Plan

Opportunity to be a part of the company's success through equity.

Platinum-Level Insurance

Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country)

Flexible Working Schedule

You have a doctor's appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won't have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.

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