Success Account Manager - Michigan, Ohio, And Pennsylvania
LOCATION
Highly preferred for candidates to live in Michigan, Ohio, or Pennsylvania. #LI-Remote
QUALIFICATIONS
8-10+ years of experience in SaaS and Telecommunications industries, with strong consulting, project management skills, and a proven track record in post-sales support. Ability to influence C-level discussions, understand technological concepts, and a passion for customer success and revenue growth.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, manage onboarding and renewals, develop plans to meet business objectives, provide consultative guidance, monitor customer trends, establish relationships for product adoption, and collaborate with sales teams for strategic planning.
INDUSTRY
Telecommunications
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Seeking an experienced Senior Success Account Manager to drive adoption of Calix Cloud and Managed services among Communication Service Providers, ensuring an exceptional customer experience and successful business outcomes.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Success Account Manager (SAM) to work directly with our Communication Service Providers to drive the adoption of Calix Cloud and Managed services. The SAM will manage a portfolio of CSP Customers and partner with a wide array of Calix teams to bring the right resources to each customer at the right time. The SAM will engage post-sales, helping take customers from the initial sign-up to the launch, adoption and optimization of their Calix Revenue EDGE solutions. The ideal candidate will be as passionate about solutions as they are about providing an exceptional experience for every customer.
- Serve as the trusted point of contact for customers, beginning from the point of sale and extending through onboarding, project success, and renewals.
- Work with customers to develop a plan that addresses business objectives that includes metrics and reporting to ensure success.
- Provide consultative guidance to ensure business processes are modified to achieve objectives identified through the sales process.
- Establish a trusted advisor relationship, handling overall responsibility for managing the customer relationship from end to end once the sale is made, including keeping the customer informed of all product updates.
- Monitor customer utilization trends and give recommendations to Product development based off such, including doing regular customer ‘health checkups’.
- Establish relationships with key customer stakeholders to drive further product adoption.
- Assist in developing processes to deliver Success@Scale for customers outside of the high touch success model.
- Partner with sales teams to create a strategic account plan from sales, adoption, expansion, and renewal.
- Work cross functionally with consulting services and sales to ensure seamless onboarding.
- Always be thinking of outside the box ways to increase renewals and drive long term customer success. A proactive approach is taken for each account regardless of segment.
- Experienced professional with SaaS and Telecommunications industry experience.
- 8-10+ years of direct customer advocacy and engagement experience in post-sales support, or equivalent experience in professional services, project management or account management functions.
- Strong consulting and project management skills, and proven results working as a trusted advisor to drive business value for customers.
- Ability to drive effective and influencing conversations at the C-level; facilitate difficult discussions and adept at handling objections.
- Ability to quickly grasp and distinctly explain technological and business concepts.
- Experience in positions like Customer Support, Technical Support, ISP Operations and/or Customer Marketing.
- Experience in delivering software solutions and strategic best practices.
- Excited about driving and tracking consistent engagements with all customers in your portfolio.
- Strong empathy for customers AND a passion for revenue and growth.
- Deep understanding of value drivers in recurring business models.
- Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement.
- 30-40% travel
- Highly preferred for candidate to live in Michigan, Ohio, or Pennsylvania.
There are different ranges applied to specific locations. The average base pay range (or OTE range for sales) in the U.S. for the position is listed below.
About Us
If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application process please:
- Email us atcalix.interview@calix.com; or
- Call us at +1 (408) 514-3000.
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