Actively manage ongoing engagements with existing customers and PoV projects with prospects, including resource coordination, day-to-day management, executive progress reviews, and training.
Manage and lead the North America CSM team, including hiring, training, and performance management.
Build and maintain long-term relationships with customer counterparts and stakeholders to improve user experience.
Represent customer voice and advocate for customers with Product, Engineering and Marketing teams.
Resolve customer challenges related to products or services to ensure continued customer loyalty.
Provide customers with a deep understanding of the Upstream product roadmap to maximize value and support upsell opportunities.
Collaborate actively with Sales, Partner Management, SOC, Product, Data and Research, DevOps and Ops teams.
Manage customer engagements end-to-end: preliminary discussions, POC/POV, product deployment, technical onboarding, ongoing operations, scoping and leading new opportunities to fruition.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in program or project management, customer success (CSM), or service management in a fully remote and distributed team environment, working with both internal and external stakeholders.
Experience in a CSM leadership role
Proven background in fast-paced, high-growth, agile startup or scale-up environments.
Experience in data-driven software companies, particularly those serving the automotive or mobility sectors.
Strong skills in communication, critical thinking, time management, multi-tasking, matrix collaboration, and managing multiple customer relationships simultaneously.
A strong “customer-first” mindset.
Solid understanding of data-driven solutions and data management platforms in the automotive and mobility industries.
In-depth knowledge of the automotive market — A Plus
Proven ability to operate effectively in complex, fast-paced, global work environments.