Pure Storage

Service Account Manager

Pure Storage

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇯🇵 Japan

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • 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)
  • Proactive and outgoing
  • objective based, result-oriented
  • Self-disciplined professional
  • Critical Thinking (Logical Thinking)
  • team worker with professionalism
  • No silent in meetings