Customer Success Engineer

IBM

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means youll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the worlds leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorps offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBMs cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your Role And Responsibilities

The Customer Success Engineer (CSE) is accountable for achieving and sustaining adoption and value, via delivering onboarding, consumption & risk mitigation workstreams. You will do this by understanding customer goals and the outcomes prescribed to achieve these goals with the product(s) purchased.

• Responsible for driving Customer onboarding and risk mitigation
• Work in partnership with internal stakeholders, including Solution Engineering, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Account Management, Professional Services, Support, and Renewals teams to resolve identified risks and escalated issues in a timely manner and properly communicate/set expectations with customers.
• Measure, report, and analyze account health, playbook progress, and account sentiment to optimize the customer journey continuously through innovative practices focused on driving adoption, retention, and expansion
• Be responsible and accountable for the timely creation and upkeep of your account(s) health score, notes, and calls to action in Gainsight
  
  

• 5+ years of Technical Account Management, Customer Success Management, or program management experience with focused technical aptitude.
• Proficiency and experience with concepts and technologies used in software development, operations, security, cloud, microservices, containers, and scheduling platforms
• Proficiency and knowledge of existing solutions in the same domain as HashiCorp tools (e.g. Infrastructure Automation, Identity Management, and Dev/Ops) such as Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault, and others
• Well-organized self-starter with an excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and a desire to learn
• Outstanding written and verbal communication/presentation skills to support onsite or remote strategic business reviews
• Strong listening skills with the demonstrated ability to ask effective questions, dive deep, understand the customer s business priorities, and anticipate the customer s needs
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with various teams with varying backgrounds and skill sets
• Ability to discuss high-level technical concepts with non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to maintain composure in stressful situations, respond to customer needs quickly and effectively, adapt to change, and is comfortable with high levels of ambiguity
• Skilled at driving the adoption and consumption of software solutions to large and multifaceted global companies
• Thrives by having regular interactions with customers and is proactive in their outreach.
• Experience working with customer relationship management tools and case management solutions (Gainsight/Salesforce)
• Able to be successful in a cross-functional culture
• Ability to travel to customers and internationally to HashiCorp events as needed