Strategic Customer Success Manager-TX DIR
Overview:
Owns the relationship held with each customer and serves as an interface between the customer and the Rackspace support infrastructure to ensure the customer’s technical, system administration, and specialist support needs are met
Owns customer issues from identification to resolution and ensures customers know the value of Fanatical Support
Knows how to speak to technology, understands the decision-making process as to why certain technologies should be chosen over others and how the customer can leverage technologies to their advantage
Advises and influences customers toward technologies
Works independently; overall review based on the attainment of stated goals and objectives
Capable of conducting solo account reviews/customer visits
Provides mentoring/ training/ coaching to lower-level TAMs and AMs
Determines methods and procedures for new assignments
May mentor or lead others
The ideal candidate is expected to collaborate in person and remotely (as required) to build strong onsite relationships with clients located in Austin, Texas.
Ability to obtain and maintain CJIS clearance
You Will:
- Advanced technical/product knowledge
- Knows who to contact internally for escalations
- May manage a moderately complex account load
- Ability to handle day-to-day tasks independently
- Ability to conduct implementation calls and lead customer visits
- Ability to present written and verbal proposals and grow the installed base
- Ability to use negotiating skills
- Understand invoicing, contracts, proposals and renewals
- Excellent creative problem-solving abilities, coupled with a desire to take on responsibility
- Evaluates defines and influences internal processes; recommends and drives process changes
- Provides training and mentoring to less experienced peers. Intelligently speak to customer technology capabilities, possibilities and pitfalls-- recognizes, understands why and how to fix and how to prevent in the future
- Owns coordination with the support team to ensure customer satisfaction
- Recognizes gaps based on customer's current build and analyzes for future gaps based on proposed changes, knows why specific options will work for customers and can explain the difference in recommendations
- Can guide customers through how to implement options
- Advanced understanding of technology partners and how they can assist our customers; facilitate relationships with external RAX partners
You Have:
- 7-10 years of relevant service/relationship management experience including a minimum of 4 years in a customer-facing technical support or account management role acting as an advisor to customers
- Experience independently analysing, troubleshooting, and problem-solving customer issues;
- Experience handling multiple tasks simultaneously
- First-hand knowledge or experience in industry competitors, products, trends and technology (HOW: usage of competitor technology)
- Advanced knowledge of how to scale customer configurations using dedicated or cloud-based technology
- Strong understanding of customer’s strategy and profitability and how to use account management tools
- Strong working knowledge and ability to follow company processes and procedures
- Strong project management skills on a moderate scale
- Full understanding of how to apply SLAs and remedies
- Advanced knowledge of the configuration build process
- Strong time management skills
- Demonstrates a solid understanding of using the Account Manager role as a strategic differentiator in reaching team and company goals
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Exhibits excellent attention to detail
- Ability to communicate technical info and ideas so others will understand
- Ability to successfully work and promote inclusiveness in small groups
- Ability to provide FANATICAL support
- Working understanding of Rackspace competitors: offerings, technologies, partners, trends, etc
- Strong knowledge of Rackspace products and the ability to educate customers on RAX differentiators/comparisons and why they are used in different scenarios
- Able to prioritize a highly varied work level in order to maintain required productivity levels
- Able to demonstrate innovative problem solving and critical thinking. Intermediate understanding of financial terminology and business acumen
- Flexible and adaptable to work schedules based on customer need
Education:
- High school diploma or equivalent required
- Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred
Preferred Certifications:
- AWS Cloud Practitioner +
- Azure Fundamentals +
- Google Cloud Foundational +
- PMP
- ITIL
The following information is required by the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act and applies only to individuals working in the state of Colorado. The anticipated starting pay range of Colorado applicants for this role is $81-600-$131,600.
Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. Information on Benefits –offered.
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
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