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 large, 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 in product development and collaborate on new opportunities
Share knowledge of products and mentor team members to improve internal expertise
Conduct strategic reviews, risk analyses, and provide insights for 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.
Willingness and ability 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.
Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with customers, acting as their primary point of contact.
Experience in coordinating and communicating support escalations, incident tracking, problem identification, and issue resolution.
Ability to orchestrate and drive high-severity issues to completion, including engaging outside of normal business hours and ramping up backup team members as needed.
Experience in managing service delivery, including inventory management, support engagements, and customer training opportunities.
Experience in managing and coordinating product implementations within prescribed change control windows, including risk analyses, deployments, migrations, capacity planning, and expansions.
Ability to advocate customer requirements for product features and functionalities, and collaborate with internal teams to identify new opportunities and solutions.
Deep knowledge of customer environments to identify and mitigate risks, and develop risk mitigation strategies.
Experience in developing, maintaining, and sharing knowledge of products and services, and guiding and mentoring team members.
Ability to provide strategic insights in sales and service growth planning sessions, including conducting quarterly reviews and roadmap discussions.
Strong understanding of customer asset management, ensuring all customer assets are tracked and maintained in internal databases.
Deep industry-level expertise in the data storage or technology sector, with the ability to quickly learn and apply knowledge of Pure Storage products and services.
Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate across various internal teams to deliver a holistic customer experience.
Benefits & Perks
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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