OpenDrives was founded in 2011 with a simple goal: to deliver storage solutions with unparalleled performance and reliability to the M&E professionals who were pushing the envelope in image quality and storytelling.
As production engineers across Los Angeles, we were our own first customers. Of course, we didn’t call ourselves that at the time. We were solving problems. We were inventing solutions to meet the growing demands of evolving media technologies so we could deliver a better experience for our team and breathtaking experiences for our customers. What we called “problem-solving” was an early nod to what we know now: that our ability to perform, indeed outperform, started with the tools and technology in our hands and in the team that came together around it.
Fast forward to today, and you’ll find OpenDrives behind your favorite movies, TV shows, TV networks, and live event broadcasts, as well as in eSports production, gaming, medical imaging, and more- all around the world. OpenDrives’ product evolution is a direct result of our unwavering dedication to our customers and from empowering our team to make the best products by being their best versions of themselves. OpenDrives customers choose our products for many reasons, but the ones they tell us are the most important are the quality of the solutions we provide to them, and the caliber of the people on our team. Our customers and team aren’t the only ones saying this, the investment community is as well: OpenDrives recently closed a $20M financing round. We’re on a growth path both as a company and as people. Like what you’re reading? Come grow with us!
OpenDrives has always been customer focused. Our passion for seeing our customers succeed is at our core, and our Technical Account Managers lead the way. As a Technical Account Manager (TAM), you are the face of OpenDrives to the customer.
The person in this role is a trusted advisor who guides our customers through complex technical and business challenges. OpenDrives products and services are inherently ecosystem focused, so the Technical Account Manager is broadly knowledgeable and able to speak fluently about OpenDrives and other storage technologies, Enterprise and Production IT infrastructure, cloud architectures, and the industry-specific workflows our customers deploy- to all levels of the customer’s organization.
TAMs work proactively to ensure our customers are able to reach their goals with our products and services. They are responsible for the customer’s success throughout their lifecycle, from curating a smooth onboarding process to leading the charge internally across departments to ensure their evolving business and technology needs are met, to driving critical escalations to resolution- and everything in between.
You are equal parts a people and technology person. You embrace the latter so completely that you can explain it to the former, no matter their own technical experience. You have strong empathy and EQ, and you understand both the pain of the customer’s challenges and the urgency of their deadlines. You are calm under pressure, love organization, and are a self starter who sees what needs to be done and gets at it. You have strong situational awareness, and communicate clearly and effectively at all organizational levels.
OpenDrives offers a generous benefits package, including: