The Senior Service Account Manager is responsible for managing customer relationships, supporting post-sales activities, and ensuring successful deployment and operation of Pure Storage products for strategic accounts, acting as a trusted advisor and driving customer satisfaction and business growth.
Key Responsibilities
Manage and enhance customer relationships, focusing on post-sales and support activities
Drive large, complex customer engagements across multiple product lines and solutions
Coordinate and communicate support escalations, incident tracking, and issue resolution
Own the overall customer service delivery, including inventory management, support, and training
Manage and coordinate product implementations, migrations, and capacity planning
Advocate for customer requirements and collaborate with internal teams to prioritize product features
Share knowledge of products and guide team members to improve service delivery
Conduct strategic reviews and provide insights for sales and service growth planning
Track and maintain customer assets, ensuring risk mitigation and environment understanding
Requirements
Proven experience in a customer-facing role within the technology or data storage industry, orchestrating large, complex strategic accounts.
Possesses strong project management skills, capable of coordinating multiple projects and resources effectively to meet tight deadlines and deliver successful outcomes.
Excellent executive-level communication skills and the ability to manage stakeholder relationships effectively.
Deep understanding of Pure Storage products and services, or the ability to quickly learn and apply this knowledge.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to conduct risk analyses, capacity planning, and other strategic reviews.
Ability to influence and collaborate across various internal teams and drive customer-inspired solutions.
Experience in managing and nurturing customer relationships, including post-sales and support activities.
Ability to serve as a trusted advisor, advocate, and subject matter expert for customers.
Experience in driving large, complex customer engagements across multiple product lines, functions, and solutions.
Ability to manage and coordinate Pure implementations within prescribed change control windows, including conducting operational and strategic management reviews such as risk analyses, deployments, migrations, capacity planning, and expansions.
Experience in advocating customer requirements for product features and functionalities, and collaborating with internal teams to identify new opportunities and business solutions.
Ability to develop, maintain, and share a deep understanding and knowledge of Pure’s products and services.
Experience in guiding and mentoring Service Account Managers.
Ability to create and deliver internal content to promote knowledge sharing, best practices, and team educational opportunities.
Experience in providing thought leadership and guidance on internal initiatives to improve customer and employee experience.
Ability to provide key insights in sales and services growth planning sessions.
Experience conducting quarterly onsite or virtual reviews and roadmap discussions with customers.
Ability to analyze customer environments to accelerate business priorities and operational objectives through environment, roadmap, and IT initiatives.
Experience in customer asset management, including tracking and maintaining customer assets in internal databases.
Ability to develop and maintain a thorough understanding of customer environments to identify and mitigate risks, playing a key role in driving risk mitigation to completion.
Willingness to travel periodically to customer sites, with travel requirements up to 30% in EMEA and APJ regions, and up to 15% on average for AMS regions.
Physical ability to engage in periodic travel and in-person meetings as required.
Benefits & Perks
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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