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Customer Success Manager
Location:
Research Triangle Park
Description:
About NetApp We're forward-thinking technology people with heart. We make our own rules, drive our own opportunities, and try to approach every challenge with fresh eyes. Of course, we can't do it alone. We know when to ask for help, collaborate with others, and partner with smart people. We embrace diversity and openness because it's in our DNA. We push limits and reward great ideas. What is your great idea?"At NetApp, we fully embrace and advance a diverse, inclusive global workforce with a culture of belonging that leverages the backgrounds and perspectives of all employees, customers, partners, and communities to foster a higher performing organization." -George Kurian, CEO Job Summary As customers today increasingly invest and engage in more flexible consumption models, Customer Success plays an increasingly critical role in helping customers shorten the time to value, getting our products sticky and accelerating their business outcome. The Cloud Consumption Customer Success organization plays a critical role with NetApp's large, strategic cloud customers, leading them through the launch, migrate, optimize and scale phases of their critical cloud storage and data services adoption journey (across our hyperscaler led first party and NetApp labeled marketplace products).As a Customer Success Manager (CSM), you are the trusted technical advisor in our account team and a strategic partner to our customers. You are responsible for execution against our Customer's commitment with NetApp (and our Hyperscaler partners Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform(GCP)) and orchestration of cross-functional programs in delivering customer value and business outcomes. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, leverage your technical expertise in cloud storage solutions and deepen your cloud infrastructure and industry expertise.As a CSM, you will be engaged in developing foundational relationship with key customer personas (IT directors, Line-of-business (LOB) leaders, Storage and networking experts) and technical professionals to enable high quality & performance of IT workloads using the partnership with account team leaders, Global SI, Hyperscaler ecosystem partners. You will be proactively defining customer success plans, success milestones and proactively orchestrating the same. You will help align consumption strategies to customer's business and implementation priorities.As a CSM, you will utilize your customer engagement, evangelization, cloud adoption technical expertise and expectation management skills to provide the highest personalized and proactive enterprise-class customer success experience. Job Requirements Customer relationship & engagement * Create impactful relationship with the Customer, NetApp, and Hyperscalers account Team (Azure, GCP & AWS). You will become intimately acquainted with the customer's business requirements, technical needs, solutions, environment, and service delivery.* Work with Customer's stakeholders to understand and translate customer business requirements into technical solutions and a executable customer success plan.* Accelerate production level consumption through delivery orchestration by driving solution and operational health for prominent, challenging, and complex customer organizations across various segments. Proactive Project delivery alignment * Provide guidance and best practices to support the development of a cloud adoption and consumption success plan.* Deliver NetApp technical adoption and consumption acceleration activities (experts sessions, best practices) based on customer's use case and workload defined.* Ensure the customer is current on technology and ready to move to cloud, enabling cloud adoption and optimizing cloud storage solutions to manage change and continue to grow in the cloud.* Monitor usage trends and customer health to proactively identify challenges and/or optimization opportunities. Account Management * Work with account team(Client Executives, Cloud specialists, Cloud solution architect) in a Pod operating model, with the highest degree of partnership with common goal in driving consumption.* Lead a monthly account pod review session to drive alignment on consumption goals, milestones and customer engagement strategies. Proactively execute risk mitigation activities as you identify adoption and consumption goal risks.* Collaborate with customers & hyperscaler counterparts and identify growth opportunities through account planning, customer business reviews and delivery opportunities, submit those expansion opportunities with the sellers. Technical Evangelization * Leverage all technical expertise and enablement to act as a technology advisor and visionary, help connect business to technology, also help customers connect with product management experts.* Share new features and roadmap, articulate how it can support the customer goals and objectives.* Identify adoption blockers and position relevant support & success bundles, professional services, partners and NLS (NetApp Learning Services) offerings. Education * Minimum 2+ years of enterprise cloud software experience is required. * Minimum 2+ years of experience in customer facing roles like CSM/CSE/CSA or solutions consultant or professional services delivery manager or Network administrator.* Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information technology or a related field is desired.* In-depth knowledge of Public/Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Service Providers (GCP, Azure, AWS)* Azure or AWS or GCP platform certifications are desired and a big plus.* A strong understanding of the storage industry, private and public cloud environments, virtualization, and cloud management stacks* Strong experience with Cluster Data ONTAP and Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) is desired.* Knowledge of data center operations and cloud security is desired.* Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer-facing environment.* Experience demonstrating a significant level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell NetApp Cloud products and services is desired.* Excellence in project management and analytical thinking is required.* Excellent communication and executive presence is required. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Did you know... Statistics show women apply to jobs only when they're 100% qualified. But no one is 100% qualified. We encourage you to shift the trend and apply anyway! We look forward to hearing from you. Why NetApp? In a world full of generalists, NetApp is a specialist. No one knows how to elevate the world's biggest clouds like NetApp. We are data-driven and empowered to innovate. Trust, integrity, and teamwork all combine to make a difference for our customers, partners, and communities.We expect a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time off per year to volunteer with their favorite organizations. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family. We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. We also offer financial savings programs to help you plan for your future. If you run toward knowledge and problem-solving, join us. USA Residents Only: The base salary hiring wage range for this position which the Company reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position in the specified geographic areas or locations, is $76.860 - $93,940. Final compensation will be dependent on various factors relevant to the position and candidate such as geographical location, candidate qualifications, certifications, relevant job-related work experience, education, skillset and other relevant business and organizational factors, consistent with applicable law. In addition, the position may include some of the following comprehensive benefits such Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401(K), Paid Time off (PTO), sick time, leave of absence as per the FMLA and other relevant leave laws, Company bonus/commission, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU's). 124602PDN-9ad3798b-1a6d-4aed-932a-7b67e78ccd42
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