Provide leadership and build a highly effective and customer-focused technical account team ensuring customer success.
Work directly with customers to ensure success and overall account business continuity and enable/support customers' site administrative and reliability engineering teams.
Interface directly with DDN Product Management, Support, Engineering and Field teams to establish requirements, document and deliver tested solutions.
Manage priorities with customer issues and develop reporting and feedback loops as required.
Support project management and technical account management interfacing with customers' Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams.
Define and document processes and best practices and ensure they are communicated and followed.
Be the operational focal point for a large, globally distributed customer environment.
Manage customer requirements through engineering RFE development and translate customer requirements into RFEs with Engineering and Product teams.
Drive operational efficiency through automation, documentation and project management; develop DevOps scripts and tools.
Develop feedback loops with Project Management, Engineering and Field teams and develop strategic plans with customers that include monitoring.
Work with customer teams to quickly identify and rectify issues and work with pre-sales to develop customer solutions.
Lead daily, weekly, monthly meetings with customer and DDN resources; monitor and report operational status and measure against project plan.
Manage and track workload and requests; prioritize urgent requests and progress on longer term projects.
Requirements
8+ years' technical experience working in a cross-functional environment.
Strong leadership, planning, decision making and communication skills.
Experience in leading large programs.
Ability to communicate with customer and DDN executive staff effectively.
Project management skills; PMP or similar certification is a plus.
Experience developing and deploying scripts and tools (DevOps capabilities).
Experience working in remote teams located around the globe.
Experience developing documentation and procedures.