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At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 6,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Principal Technical Customer Manager - Healthcare
Why We Have This Role
The Technical Customer Manager plays a pivotal part in Qualtrics' success by leading the design, delivery and ongoing success of customer’s experience programs, focused on driving measurable business impact. In this role, you will partner with customers throughout their lifecycle - from program delivery and onboarding to ongoing optimization, adoption and value realization. You will act as the primary technology trusted advisor for your portfolio, leading medium and large-scale software implementations and optimizing our technology to address individual challenges, ultimately building our customers into lifelong Qualtrics champions.
How You'll Find Success
You will find success by blending exceptional customer and project management skills with a focus on technical platform adoption, renewals, and expansion. You will lead project teams to deliver complex programs within our specific Industry Verticals and Region, ensuring your customers deepen and broaden their usage of the platform. By influencing customers to shape their feedback programs and being resourceful when facing challenges, you will drive leading indicators of success, value realization, and Net ARR growth.
How You’ll Grow
- Master advanced technical implementation: You will develop deep, hands-on expertise in the Qualtrics platform, evolving into a trusted technology advisor who leads medium and large-scale enterprise software implementations.
- Elevate your executive influence and consulting skills: You will build strong relationships with senior customer program owners and decision-makers, honing your ability to shape strategic feedback programs and guide large, complex organizations through business transformations.
- Develop commercial and portfolio leadership: By proactively monitoring account health and defining expansion strategies, you will move beyond standard project execution to directly drive portfolio performance, value realization, and account growth.
- Expand your cross-functional and industry footprint: You will act as the critical bridge collaborating internally with project managers, engineering, account executive and product teams, while deepening your specialized knowledge of significant industry shifts taking place in experience management.
Things You'll Do
- Portfolio Leadership: Own the success of a portfolio of customer accounts, serving as the primary technology advisor throughout the customer lifecycle
- Portfolio Performance: Monitor portfolio performance using customer health, adoption, maturity and value realisation to proactively manage risk and identify growth opportunities
- Account Growth & Maturity: Define strategy to expand program adoption and maturity across our customer accounts, driving Net ARR and portfolio performance
- Strategic Project Management: Partner with customers to provide expertise leading to the alignment of project goals and timely execution
- Risk & Quality Management: Plan, monitor, and mitigate project risks while developing quality management plans aligned with business requirements
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams to support your customer’s experience and maintain account health
What We're Looking For On Your Resume
The ideal candidate combines technical expertise, consulting skills and a passion for helping customers transform their business through technology.
- 3+ years of experience: Successfully working with large, complex organisations to execute and advise on customer facing programs that deliver sustainable business outcomes
- Technical Aptitude: High interest in learning the Qualtrics platform and new technologies and deployment of technical expertise with customers at scale
- Consulting & Program Management: Proven ability to plan and execute multiple concurrent projects on time and budget, with a blend of consulting and internal-customer experience. Collaborating with project managers, consultants, architects and product teams to support delivery of specific outcomes
- Customer Engagement: Ability to lead workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, utilise data and metrics to communicate understanding and produce high quality customer facing documentation
- Stakeholder Influence: Ability to build relationships with senior customer program owners and decision makers
- Industry Experience: Good understanding of significant industry shifts taking place in experience management in one or more specific industries.
- Entrepreneurial spirit: High tolerance for ambiguity and complexity. Ability to be efficient with limited resources, to understand business needs and to communicate and present to Senior Management effectively.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or business-related field.
- Willingness to Travel: Able to travel up to 25% to engage with clients and teams.
What You Should Know About This Team
Key Responsibilities
Help Customers Grow
- Build and maintain strong customer stakeholder relationships to deeply understand the context, ambition and strategic business goals for the customers within your portfolio
- Define and execute your strategy for retaining, maturing and expanding customer accounts; including assessing customer usage and implementing new capabilities to enhance their programs
- Develop success plans aligned with customer business goals and technology roadmaps
- Monitor customer health, platform utilisation and adoption metrics to identify opportunities for increased value
- Contribute to a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement to drive high quality customer outcomes
Provide Technical & Execution Expertise
- Develop and maintain technical competence on the Qualtrics platform, ensuring a deep understanding of the leading indicators of customer adoption, ACV retention and value realisation
- Utilize experience and best practices in order to understand the customer and communicate effectively how the Qualtrics platform will support the delivery of value driving outcomes and enhance their program
- Lead specific project implementations for new customers to your portfolio and existing customers; including cross functional / cross team project teams consisting of Technical Services Consultants and XM Advisors, with the objective to deliver on project goals and objectives
- Conduct regular risk planning, monitoring, mitigation and reporting to stakeholders both during project delivery and account lifecycle
Demonstrate Operational Rigor
- Execute implementation and account management activities in accordance with global standard practices, ensuring rigorous account and project tracking and proactive risk and issue management
- Ensure all project and account documentation and artefacts are developed, maintained
- Stay current with product and strategic customer journey enhancements
Key Success Measures
For customer accounts within your portfolio over a 12 month period:
Customer Value
- Net ARR
- Customer adoption and maturity of customer account
- Customer satisfaction and advocacy
Successful Execution
- Billable Utilization attainment
- Time to Value for customers following delivery of new capabilities (measured by level of consumption 60 days following go-live milestone)
- Time to Deliver new capabilities for customers in your portfolio
- Rigorous scope management measured by level of Variance on Completion (VAC) of specific project deliverables
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance packages for you and your dependents.
- Professional Growth & Mentorship: Structured onboarding, product training, and clear pathways for career advancement.
- Paid Time Off & Holidays: Generous paid vacation, sick leave, and paid company holidays.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan: Competitive matching company contributions to help secure your financial future.
For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered within this range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer. Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability, 401(k) with match, paid time off, a wellness reimbursement, and mental health benefits.
At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 6,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Principal Technical Customer Manager - Healthcare
Why We Have This Role
The Technical Customer Manager plays a pivotal part in Qualtrics' success by leading the design, delivery and ongoing success of customer’s experience programs, focused on driving measurable business impact. In this role, you will partner with customers throughout their lifecycle - from program delivery and onboarding to ongoing optimization, adoption and value realization. You will act as the primary technology trusted advisor for your portfolio, leading medium and large-scale software implementations and optimizing our technology to address individual challenges, ultimately building our customers into lifelong Qualtrics champions.
How You'll Find Success
You will find success by blending exceptional customer and project management skills with a focus on technical platform adoption, renewals, and expansion. You will lead project teams to deliver complex programs within our specific Industry Verticals and Region, ensuring your customers deepen and broaden their usage of the platform. By influencing customers to shape their feedback programs and being resourceful when facing challenges, you will drive leading indicators of success, value realization, and Net ARR growth.
How You’ll Grow
- Master advanced technical implementation: You will develop deep, hands-on expertise in the Qualtrics platform, evolving into a trusted technology advisor who leads medium and large-scale enterprise software implementations.
- Elevate your executive influence and consulting skills: You will build strong relationships with senior customer program owners and decision-makers, honing your ability to shape strategic feedback programs and guide large, complex organizations through business transformations.
- Develop commercial and portfolio leadership: By proactively monitoring account health and defining expansion strategies, you will move beyond standard project execution to directly drive portfolio performance, value realization, and account growth.
- Expand your cross-functional and industry footprint: You will act as the critical bridge collaborating internally with project managers, engineering, account executive and product teams, while deepening your specialized knowledge of significant industry shifts taking place in experience management.
Things You'll Do
- Portfolio Leadership: Own the success of a portfolio of customer accounts, serving as the primary technology advisor throughout the customer lifecycle
- Portfolio Performance: Monitor portfolio performance using customer health, adoption, maturity and value realisation to proactively manage risk and identify growth opportunities
- Account Growth & Maturity: Define strategy to expand program adoption and maturity across our customer accounts, driving Net ARR and portfolio performance
- Strategic Project Management: Partner with customers to provide expertise leading to the alignment of project goals and timely execution
- Risk & Quality Management: Plan, monitor, and mitigate project risks while developing quality management plans aligned with business requirements
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams to support your customer’s experience and maintain account health
What We're Looking For On Your Resume
The ideal candidate combines technical expertise, consulting skills and a passion for helping customers transform their business through technology.
- 3+ years of experience: Successfully working with large, complex organisations to execute and advise on customer facing programs that deliver sustainable business outcomes
- Technical Aptitude: High interest in learning the Qualtrics platform and new technologies and deployment of technical expertise with customers at scale
- Consulting & Program Management: Proven ability to plan and execute multiple concurrent projects on time and budget, with a blend of consulting and internal-customer experience. Collaborating with project managers, consultants, architects and product teams to support delivery of specific outcomes
- Customer Engagement: Ability to lead workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, utilise data and metrics to communicate understanding and produce high quality customer facing documentation
- Stakeholder Influence: Ability to build relationships with senior customer program owners and decision makers
- Industry Experience: Good understanding of significant industry shifts taking place in experience management in one or more specific industries.
- Entrepreneurial spirit: High tolerance for ambiguity and complexity. Ability to be efficient with limited resources, to understand business needs and to communicate and present to Senior Management effectively.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or business-related field.
- Willingness to Travel: Able to travel up to 25% to engage with clients and teams.
What You Should Know About This Team
Key Responsibilities
Help Customers Grow
- Build and maintain strong customer stakeholder relationships to deeply understand the context, ambition and strategic business goals for the customers within your portfolio
- Define and execute your strategy for retaining, maturing and expanding customer accounts; including assessing customer usage and implementing new capabilities to enhance their programs
- Develop success plans aligned with customer business goals and technology roadmaps
- Monitor customer health, platform utilisation and adoption metrics to identify opportunities for increased value
- Contribute to a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement to drive high quality customer outcomes
Provide Technical & Execution Expertise
- Develop and maintain technical competence on the Qualtrics platform, ensuring a deep understanding of the leading indicators of customer adoption, ACV retention and value realisation
- Utilize experience and best practices in order to understand the customer and communicate effectively how the Qualtrics platform will support the delivery of value driving outcomes and enhance their program
- Lead specific project implementations for new customers to your portfolio and existing customers; including cross functional / cross team project teams consisting of Technical Services Consultants and XM Advisors, with the objective to deliver on project goals and objectives
- Conduct regular risk planning, monitoring, mitigation and reporting to stakeholders both during project delivery and account lifecycle
Demonstrate Operational Rigor
- Execute implementation and account management activities in accordance with global standard practices, ensuring rigorous account and project tracking and proactive risk and issue management
- Ensure all project and account documentation and artefacts are developed, maintained
- Stay current with product and strategic customer journey enhancements
Key Success Measures
For customer accounts within your portfolio over a 12 month period:
Customer Value
- Net ARR
- Customer adoption and maturity of customer account
- Customer satisfaction and advocacy
Successful Execution
- Billable Utilization attainment
- Time to Value for customers following delivery of new capabilities (measured by level of consumption 60 days following go-live milestone)
- Time to Deliver new capabilities for customers in your portfolio
- Rigorous scope management measured by level of Variance on Completion (VAC) of specific project deliverables
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance packages for you and your dependents.
- Professional Growth & Mentorship: Structured onboarding, product training, and clear pathways for career advancement.
- Paid Time Off & Holidays: Generous paid vacation, sick leave, and paid company holidays.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan: Competitive matching company contributions to help secure your financial future.
For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered within this range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer. Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability, 401(k) with match, paid time off, a wellness reimbursement, and mental health benefits.
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Who's Hiring
- Amazon78
- Amazon Web Services37
- Oracle27
- Microsoft27
- AT&T13
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software29
- Retail5
- Electronics & Hardware5
- E-Commerce & Online Marketplaces5
- Banking & Financial Services3
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in technical principal jobs.
- 10 or more years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership
- Proven ability to define and drive architectural decisions across multiple teams or products
- Deep expertise in one or more domains such as distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or data engineering
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and setting technical standards organization-wide
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive and cross-functional audiences
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Technical Principal Job Search
Tailor your resume to scope and scale
Technical principal resumes that land interviews show the breadth of systems you owned and the size of the engineering organizations you influenced. Quantify the scope of platforms you designed and the number of teams that depended on your decisions.
Distinguish principal from staff on your resume
Many candidates blur staff engineer and principal engineer work. Be explicit about where you held cross-team or cross-organization technical authority, not just deep expertise in one codebase. Hiring managers screen hard for that distinction at this level.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists technical principal openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies at the right growth stage
Principal roles open most reliably at companies scaling from dozens to hundreds of engineers. A company with two engineers won't need you, and one with thousands may already be fully staffed. Filter your search toward mid-scale growth-stage organizations.
Prepare a system design narrative, not a list
Technical principal interviews focus on how you reason through ambiguous architectural problems, not whether you know specific tools. Practice walking through a complex design decision out loud, including trade-offs you rejected and why you chose the path you did.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate salary
At the principal level, your reporting line, the domains you own, and the mandate to influence roadmap decisions matter as much as compensation. Clarify these before accepting. Vague ownership at a senior level leads to under-leveled work.
Technical Principal Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most technical principals?
The most active employers for technical principals right now are Amazon, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle, and the most openings are in Washington, California, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in enterprise software, cloud services, and financial technology.
How many technical principal jobs are remote?
About 67% of technical principal openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting sustained demand for senior technical talent regardless of location. Architecture, platform engineering, and developer experience roles within the principal tier tend to be the most remote-friendly, while roles tied to embedded systems or hardware typically require on-site presence.
How do you become a technical principal?
Becoming a technical principal requires building a record of cross-team technical impact, not just deep individual expertise. Start by owning architectural decisions in your current role, writing design documents that other teams adopt, and mentoring senior engineers. Develop the ability to communicate complex trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders. Most engineers reach this level after demonstrating repeated influence outside their immediate team.
Can you get a technical principal role without prior principal-level experience?
Yes, but you need to demonstrate principal-level impact even if your title has not caught up. Document specific instances where you set technical direction for more than one team, resolved systemic architectural problems, or drove an organization-wide engineering standard. Companies hiring their first or second principal are often open to strong staff engineers who can show that scope of work in their portfolio and interviews.
What does the technical principal interview process look like?
The technical principal interview process typically includes a recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on leadership scope and career arc, one or more deep system design sessions, a cross-functional or executive presentation round, and a final values or culture interview. Some companies add a written architecture document review. The process usually unfolds across four to six rounds and places heavy weight on how you communicate decisions and handle disagreement.
Where can I find and apply to technical principal jobs?
You can find and apply to technical principal jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing.
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