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Primary Location: United States (US) - Iowa -
Function: Marketing and Sales (CA)
Title: Customer Tech Implementation Lead - 125441
Onsite/Remote:Onsite Position
As a Customer Tech Implementation Lead within the Customer Success organization, located in Johnston, IA, you will own Deere’s Digital Customer Success operating model, ensuring customers consistently progress from digital connection and technology readiness to value realization, renewal, and advocacy, building the customer success capability Deere needs as its digital business scales toward 2030. You will discover, develop, and deploy the digital customer success model, reducing customer effort to value and increasing dealer efficiency by going direct to customer where and when it makes sense.
- Own the Digital Customer Success workstream within the Customer Tech Implementation strategy to operationalize capabilities, report customer success outcomes to leadership, manage cross-functional governance forums and escalate strategic risks and opportunities
- Benchmark customer success best practices and industry principles, and translate them into a customer engagement framework and Digital Customer Success playbook library
- Design and scale intelligence-led customer success plays (onboarding, guided enablement, community, and targeted intervention), defining when customers are best served through Deere-led, dealer-led, or self-service paths
- Provide day-to-day leadership for the Digital Customer Success team without direct people-management authority, onboarding new teammates, setting shared priorities and ways of working, aligning resources, and influencing peers to deliver measurable customer outcomes
- Drive onboarding, utilization, value realization, retention, and renewals for premium digital products, with an initial focus on reducing churn and accelerating time-to-value
- Grow meaningful engagement across Deere's digital ecosystem, including Operations Center Web, Equipment Mobile, and JD, Deere's AI-powered customer assistant, as the foundation for premium digital growth, establishing baselines and measuring behavior change after intervention
- Close the gap between Organizational Health insights and customer action, driving setup, connectivity, and proactive outreach where dealers cannot reach
- Build community learning and customer advocacy programs that enable peer-to-peer learning and amplify customer success
- Identify key drivers of adoption, renewal, and churn, and surface customer insights to support continuous product improvement and implementation tactics
- Partner across ISG and A&CS Product Management, Tech Comm, Region teams and dealers to deliver a connected, less siloed customer experience across Deere's digital ecosystem
VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position
- Builder Mindset: Thrives in ambiguity, with the ability to take an operating model from concept to execution: discover, define, develop, deliver
- Leadership & Influence: Ability to influence a team and across organizations without direct authority to drive aligned, cross-functional outcomes
- Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of digital and precision technology, including connectivity, and data management systems
- Customer Knowledge: Ability to talk shop with customers, understand their operations, and identify how digital tools can help improve their results
- Data-Driven: Ability to use customer health signals and metrics such as effort to value (E2V), utilization, retention, and CSAT to prioritize action and measure impact
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to deliver executive-ready updates and convey technical information to non-technical audiences
- Familiarity with Deere digital products such as Operations Center, Equipment Mobile, PRO Service, and PRO Enterprise
- Demonstrated experience working directly with customers and dealers to accelerate technology adoption
- Experience applying customer success practices such as guided onboarding, health scoring, playbooks, community learning, and customer advocacy
- Experience building operating models, governance forums, and executive reporting from the ground up
- Demonstrated experience working broadly across John Deere, collaborating with multiple teams, functions, or business units to drive impact
- Experience using AI to turn customer data into proactive action and efficiency, and championing AI adoption across teams
Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
What You'll Get
At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Highly competitive base pay
- Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution)
- Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Tuition assistance
- Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
- Charitable contribution match
- Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use
- Vacation and Holiday Pay
$109,548.00 - $164,316.00 + Benefits
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Must be 18 years of age or older to apply
The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- Ability to build and operationalize operating models from concept to execution
- Ability to influence teams and organizations without direct authority
- Strong understanding of digital and precision technology, connectivity, and data management systems
- Ability to understand customer operations and identify how digital tools improve results
- Ability to use customer health signals and metrics such as utilization, retention, and CSAT
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Familiarity with Deere digital products, including Operations Center, Equipment Mobile, PRO Service, and PRO Enterprise
- Experience working directly with customers and dealers to accelerate technology adoption
- Experience applying customer success practices such as guided onboarding, health scoring, playbooks, community learning, and customer advocacy
- Experience building operating models, governance forums, and executive reporting
- Experience collaborating across multiple teams, functions, or business units
- Experience using AI to convert customer data into proactive action and champion AI adoption
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The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about John Deere and has not been reviewed or approved by John Deere.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with union‑represented employees retaining high‑value plans with no premiums or deductibles under the 2021–2027 agreement. Company materials also highlight broad medical options, wellness resources, and inclusive care navigation.
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Retirement Support — The package includes a 401(k) with company match and, for many represented roles and some salaried groups, access to a defined‑benefit pension. Contract updates and company filings indicate sustained retirement programs with enhancements for covered employees.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation scales up to five weeks with additional holidays, and some units allow purchasing extra time off. Materials also reference paid parental and caregiver leave alongside flexible work arrangements where roles allow.
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