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The Customer Success Manager (CSM) will be a trusted adviser to our key customers. This person will be responsible for developing and maintaining customer relationships by effectively driving adoption of our software to achieve customer retention, renewal, and upsell goals, while ensuring a best-in-class customer experience.
The ideal candidate should have the following skills:
- Strong customer service skills and the ability to manage customers during escalations.
- Ability to identify and drive business outcomes based on the customer’s use case and business priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to make data-driven decisions to drive product and service performance.
- A good understanding of IT technologies, including database, networking, and security.
- Ability to build and sustain relationships with key customer stakeholders.
- Project management, risk management, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills
Your Impact:
- Support and educate customers about SolarWinds products and other use-case scenarios. Ensure revenue retention and identify opportunities to expand product adoption.
- Understand customer’s business, strategic goals, and requirements to demonstrate value-delivered outcomes with SolarWinds products through regular value-based interactions, project planning, and internal collaboration with various departments
- Conduct discussions and reviews with customers, developing in-depth understanding of their environments, use cases, and potential challenges
- Proactively provide value for customers, by keeping them updated on strategic initiatives, relevant industry trends, and other important developments such as known issues, new features, or security fixes
- Provide operational support to customers during escalations by working together with other internal functions and helping to ensure a satisfactory resolution
- Become the voice of our customers within SolarWinds with a deep understanding and empathy for the customer experience and representing and sharing their opinion with the department and SolarWinds Product Management and Engineering teams.
- Lead discussions with internal departments to help educate customers about SolarWinds product offering, use cases, and ROI and help define and scope future engagements.
- Contribute to overall company net retention by working with the internal Sales and Renewals organizations to proactively identify and resolve potential customer churn scenarios and identify business expansion opportunities
- Mentor and support our Customer Success team
Your Experience:
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated experience managing mid-market or enterprise customers.
- Ability to adapt communication and conversations to different audiences.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in the IT industry in a customer-facing role, such as Customer Success Manager, Technical Account Manager, Technical Support Engineer, or Sales Engineer.
- Strong understanding of networking and security products, as well as enterprise network infrastructure.
- General understanding of cloud concepts.
- Experience with CRM and/or ERP platforms, such as Salesforce, NetSuite, or Gainsight.
- Strong problem-solving and customer management skills.
- SaaS experience is an asset.
Preferred Experience:
- Advanced knowledge of the technologies listed above, including relevant certifications, is an advantage.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent advanced industry certifications, is an advantage.
- Experience with SolarWinds products is an advantage.
- Industry-recognized Customer Success or project management certifications are an advantage.
- Hands-on experience with network troubleshooting tools, such as Wireshark and Fiddler, is an advantage.
- Experience in the information security or IT infrastructure industry is an advantage, including network, application, and server monitoring.
- Hands-on cloud experience and relevant cloud certifications are an advantage.
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- Strong customer service skills and ability to manage customer escalations
- Ability to identify and drive business outcomes based on customer use cases and priorities
- Data-driven decision-making skills
- Understanding of IT technologies, including databases, networking, and security
- Ability to build and sustain relationships with key customer stakeholders
- Project management, risk management, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Experience managing mid-market or enterprise customers
- At least 5 years of relevant IT industry experience in a customer-facing role
- Strong understanding of networking and security products and enterprise network infrastructure
- General understanding of cloud concepts
- Experience with CRM or ERP platforms such as Salesforce, NetSuite, or Gainsight
- SaaS experience
- Advanced knowledge of relevant technologies or industry certifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent advanced industry certifications
- Experience with SolarWinds products
- Customer Success or project management certifications
- Hands-on experience with Wireshark and Fiddler
- Experience in information security or IT infrastructure, including network, application, or server monitoring
- Hands-on cloud experience and relevant cloud certifications
SolarWinds Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SolarWinds and has not been reviewed or approved by SolarWinds.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with some locations covering healthcare, dental, and vision at 100% and generally well-regarded plan quality. Feedback suggests wellness resources, counseling, and fitness reimbursements further strengthen the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and a sabbatical after five years are part of the package. Feedback suggests global parental leave minimums add meaningful family support to the overall time-off mix.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Compensation is considered solid by many, with consistent raises noted alongside base pay. Feedback suggests bonuses and structured increases contribute to a sense of ongoing pay growth.
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What We Do
SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK® community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
