Technical Account Manager - EU / UK

London, UK On-site Posted Jun 25

Technical Account Manager - EU / UK at Marqeta is a forward deployed financial technology role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.

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This Technical Leadership role centers on team leadership, customer program ownership, and scaling delivery playbooks. Key signals from the listing: 5+ years experience, Senior scope.

About Marqeta

Fintech forward deployed roles integrate money-moving systems where correctness and compliance are non-negotiable. The role is anchored in London, UK, so expect on-site customer work in that region.

Signals in the listing

  • 5+ years experience
  • Senior scope

Stand out for Technical Account Manager - EU / UK

  • Lead your application with one paragraph tying Technical Account Manager - EU / UK to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Marqeta hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
  • Quantify team and program scale: people managed, number of concurrent customer deployments, and revenue or mission outcomes influenced.
  • Explain how you built repeatable playbooks so delivery quality did not depend on one hero engineer.
  • This role is tied to London, UK — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).

Stand out at Marqeta

  • Demonstrate API rigor with a concrete example — Marqeta will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
  • Demonstrate edge-case thinking with a concrete example — Marqeta will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
  • Show you understand idempotency, reconciliation, and how to debug production payment flows calmly.
  • Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on marqeta.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.

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As a Technical Account Manager, your mission at Marqeta will be to serve as a trusted technical and payments advisor for several strategically important customers, managing all technical aspects of Marqeta’s relationship with them throughout the customer life cycle. You will be on the front line communicating directly with customers while collaborating cross-functionally internally to win new business, increase current business value with existing customers, and strengthen customer relationships. You will build expertise by learning from the Solutions Engineering, Product and Technology teams who develop and know the platform and solutions. In return, you will deliver critical customer feedback to help shape the roadmap and refine our offerings. NOTE: This role offers hybrid flexibility. Candidates within commuting distance of our London (Holborn) office are expected in the office two days per week. For those based elsewhere in the UK, the position is fully remote. The Talent team will share more details if selected for the Recruiter Interview. We'd love for you to join us!

The Impact You’ll Have

Trusted Technical Advisor: Whether you’re working with Marqeta’s business development and Account Managers to analyse requirements for a new opportunity, or coordinating an ongoing implementation to ensure its success, you’ll be the trusted technical expert for your customers. Your fellow Marqetans will rely on you to ensure the key technical influencers at our customers and prospects deeply understand our technology, its strategic advantages, and how to quickly get integrated and live. Your customers will rely on you to solve both near-term technical problems and their long-term money movement vision. Proactive problem-solver: Your customers will rely on you to solve both near-term technical problems and their long-term money movement vision. You’ll approach issues with empathy, putting yourself in the customer’s shoes and delivering clear recommendations to solve their problems. Over time, you’ll be able to soom out to see the bigger picture, and identify downstream impacts or “gotchas” before they occur. As you learn, you’ll document your findings to train others and create standards that can be repeated across the team and organisation. Customer Advocate: You’ll regularly attend product and engineering meetings, providing insight and guidance as the “voice of the customer” to those teams. Your work across teams and with a diverse array of customers will afford you unparalleled insights into how Marqeta is enabling customers, the evolution of the competitive landscape, and where and what we should build to remain on the cutting edge of the payments ecosystem.

Who You Are

5+ years of customer-facing work experience (i.e., Technical Account Management, Solutions Engineering, or Technical Consulting) in high-tech or financial technology services, leading technical discussions and solutions in a sales engineering, implementation, or technical account management capacity Excellent written and verbal communication skills; the ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences and to explain the impact in business terms Ability to execute quickly and provide quick and effective resolutions; proficient at seeing things from different angles (pros and cons, weaknesses and strengths) Ability to facilitate customer collaboration and influence teams across the organisation to achieve desired customer outcomes Resourceful problem solver who proactively suggests improvements and challenges the status quo Ability to prioritise, manage, and deliver on multiple projects simultaneously; highly motivated and able to work unsupervised against aggressive schedules Experience and/or enthusiasm learning & discussing APIs Demonstrated strong understanding of fintech (e.g. acquiring, networks, point-of-sale) and payments background, especially on the issuing side Demonstrated ability to identify key customer stakeholders, engage and build relationships without direct supervision Recruiter for this role Lou Devlin - Linkedin Profile (no agencies please!)

Typical Process

Application Submission

Recruiter video call Hiring manager video call Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls Offer!

Compensation and

Benefits

Premium Private Medical and Dental coverage Generous time off program with additional “Floating Holiday days” Retirement savings program with company contribution Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program Monthly stipend to support our remote work model Annual development stipend to support our people's growth and development

Family-forming

benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

Wellbeing programs i.e. Modern Health, HealthKick and much more…

About Marqeta

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Marqeta’s Values

  • Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.
  • Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.
  • Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
  • Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.
  • Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.

Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy

Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form with your specific accommodation request. Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the Applicant Privacy Notice. Additional information for California residents can be found here.

What is the Technical Account Manager - EU / UK role at Marqeta?
This is a forward deployed engineering position at Marqeta based in London, UK. Forward deployed engineers work directly with customers to deploy and integrate software on-site.
Where is this Marqeta role located?
This Technical Account Manager - EU / UK position is in London, UK. Use the apply link above to confirm location details and hybrid/remote options on the company's careers page.
How do I apply for this Marqeta job?
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