VP of Strategic Customer Engagement

Strimi

VP of Strategic Customer Engagement leading strategic customer organization at Striim, Inc. Overseeing Technical Account Management and Tiger Team functions for customer retention and growth.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $280,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, scale, and optimize the Technical Account Management organization focused on customer retention, adoption, expansion, renewal, and upsell across enterprise accounts
Build and lead the company’s new Tiger Team organization, including engagement criteria, escalation workflows, operational processes, cross-functional execution models, staffing strategy, and customer stabilization frameworks
Develop executive-level engagement and escalation strategies that improve customer outcomes, operational execution, and strategic account stability.
Lead coordinated execution during high-priority customer escalations, production recovery efforts, strategic deployment risks, and cross-functional operational incidents.
Establish clear operational boundaries, engagement models, and collaboration protocols between TAM, Support, Product Engineering, Field Engineering, and Tiger Team functions.
Partner closely with Sales leadership to identify expansion opportunities, support strategic account planning, and contribute to revenue growth initiatives
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Solutions teams to ensure customer feedback, adoption challenges, and product enhancement opportunities are effectively communicated and prioritized
Support beta programs, strategic product rollouts, and customer enablement initiatives for key accounts when appropriate
Establish scalable customer engagement frameworks, success metrics, operational KPIs, and executive reporting structures
Drive accountability across customer health metrics, retention performance, expansion targets, adoption benchmarks, and customer satisfaction outcomes
Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, technical leaders, and business decision-makers across enterprise customer environments
Foster a high-accountability, highly collaborative team culture centered around customer outcomes, operational excellence, and cross-functional partnership
Lead with a balanced approach of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, helping teams navigate ambiguity, shifting priorities, and complex enterprise customer environments
Build trust and alignment across multiple internal stakeholders and executive teams while maintaining strong momentum and focus on execution
Operate effectively within a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment with evolving priorities and limited traditional structure
Serve as a visible executive leader internally and externally, representing the company with customers, partners, and industry stakeholders
Partner with Alliances and Partner organizations to support joint customer success initiatives and strategic ecosystem growth opportunities
Travel extensively to customer sites, partner engagements, executive meetings, conferences, and internal leadership sessions

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of progressive leadership experience within enterprise software, cloud, data infrastructure, SaaS, or data modernization environments.
Proven success leading Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Strategic Services, Solutions Architecture, Professional Services, or related customer-facing technical organizations.
Demonstrated track record of driving enterprise customer retention, expansion, adoption, and upsell growth.
Strong experience within data modernization ecosystems, including cloud adoption and migration, real-time data streaming, analytics, observability, AI enablement, or related enterprise data technologies.
Experience working with highly technical enterprise customers across complex and/or regulated environments.
Experience leading complex enterprise escalations, operational recovery initiatives, strategic customer stabilization efforts, or cross-functional technical intervention programs.
Strong understanding of enterprise deployment models, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, real-time data architectures, operational support models, and production incident management.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional execution across Engineering, Product, Support, Architecture, and GTM organizations during high-pressure customer situations.
Ability to engage credibly in technical discussions involving enterprise architecture, scalability, platform stability, cloud operations, database technologies, and production deployment challenges.
Ability to operate strategically and tactically in a high-growth startup environment.
Experience building, scaling, or transforming customer-facing technical teams.
Demonstrated ability to lead effectively in high-growth, fast-paced, and evolving environments with competing priorities and multiple stakeholder perspectives.
Strong emotional intelligence, executive presence, and interpersonal judgment with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build credibility across all levels of an organization.
Proven ability to balance urgency, accountability, and operational rigor with a highly collaborative and team-oriented leadership style.
Hands-on, proactive leadership approach with a willingness to engage directly in solving customer and operational challenges when needed.
Ability to navigate complex organizational dynamics with professionalism, adaptability, and a solutions-oriented mindset.
Strong executive presence with exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders.
Commercial mindset with comfort operating against revenue-oriented metrics and customer growth objectives.
Strong cross-functional leadership skills with experience partnering across Sales, Product, Engineering, Alliances, and Executive Leadership teams.
Comfortable operating in environments with lean internal infrastructure and non-traditional marketing support models.
Strong technical depth with the ability to engage credibly in enterprise architecture discussions, production escalation management, operational risk analysis, cloud infrastructure strategy, and complex deployment troubleshooting.
Experience working within fast-paced, less structured startup cultures with high visibility and accountability.
Willingness and enthusiasm for extensive travel, including international travel.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and pre-IPO stock options
Comprehensive health care plans (medical, dental, vision), including medical and dependent FSA
Retirement plan (401K)
Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
Opportunity to contribute to and shape a collaborative, high-growth company culture

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Hard Skills & Tools

customer retentioncustomer expansioncustomer adoptioncloud adoptiondata modernizationreal-time data streaminganalyticsobservabilityenterprise architectureproduction incident management

Soft Skills

emotional intelligenceexecutive presenceinterpersonal judgmentcollaborationinfluencecommunication skillsstrategic thinkinghands-on leadershipadaptabilitysolutions-oriented mindset