Assigned to and responsible for a specific area, region, or division with site locations as specified in account service plan
Builds relationships within account(s) to become a support services trusted advisor focused on the total customer experience and satisfaction
Leverages various Pure resources to ensure incident resolution and drives proactive activities promoting system health and customer satisfaction
Provides detailed customer reporting using a cross section of services tools and applications
Collaborates with Pure account teams to understand the business strategy and supports sales opportunities
Responsible for basic account management as part of a larger SAM team or for customers with smaller install bases
Communicates relevant service updates and recommendations to both internal account team & external customers
Functions as single point-of-contact for service activities and educates customer on Pure service delivery, tools and interfaces
Provides monthly and quarterly service review, leveraging phone home data analysis
Accountable for Change control management
Works with customer to proactively identify and resolve potential issues to achieve high system availability
Manages accurate customer installed base and assists service maintenance contracts billing
Establish collaboration and coordination framework among stakeholders during escalation and drive towards resolution
Leads business reviews with customer execs, providing key content and tracking action items
Interacts regularly with customer operations team and attends customer data center occasionally
Responsible for value based contract renewal and Upsell, and contributing to virtual initiatives and process improvement
Requirements
Technical expertise in Enterprise Storage - product, key features and solutions, general technology like NAS, SAN, File/Block data, and close technology like server, os, virtualization, network
Hand-dirty experience like installation, upgrade, expansion, or developing test environment. FlashArray, FlashBlade experience is a good plus.
Critical infrastructure technologies like Cloud, Cyber-security, or Containerization and orchestration solution
> 3 years of experience directly engage with the enterprise IT infrastructure operation
Preferred - Experience in IT infrastructure operation and management as an on-site member of the customer’s ops team or through managed services (operation outsourcing)
Strong communication skills (facilitation, negotiation, conflict management skill, assertive communication)
Strong task management (self) and project (group-mission) driving skill
Strong complex problem solving skill and experience
A very good relationship and effective network building skill with every stakeholders
Bachelors (Non – Technical)
ITIL Foundation or Project management certified (desired)
5 years relevant experience (customer facing, large accounts, industry related) and long term relationship building
Japanese - Native, English - Business (readable/writeble with willingness to keep brushing up)