Customer Success Manager

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

The Red Hat Strategic Customer Engagement team is looking for a customer-­focused technology professional to join us as a Customer Success Manager (CSM) in Zurich, Switzerland. In this role, you will serve as a trusted adviser to our enterprise customers, helping them achieve success with our offerings and maximizing the value realized from Red Hat’s subscriptions. You'll be crucial to the long-­term success of Red Hat's subscription­-based business model, and be responsible for the onboarding, supporting, services, adoption, advocacy, retention, and delivery of outcomes in the form of renewals and incremental sales. As a Customer Success Manager, your ultimate goal will be to cultivate solid customer relationships and grow customer satisfaction to make the contract renewal process faster and easier.

• Establish a trusted adviser relationship with customer executive sponsors and key stakeholders so that all of Red Hat's activities are closely aligned with customer business cases and business strategies
• Develop success plans for customers that outline their critical success factors, metrics for success, and potential issues, and provide recommendations
• Help ensure that customers achieve maximum value from their investment and monitor adoption rates of accounts
• Assist sales reps with ongoing efforts to manage existing customer relationships and respond to non­-sales related inquiries
• Minimize subscriber churn through education, coaching, and persuasion
• Educate customers on core key principles for a sustainable configuration
• Develop and carry out programs to keep customers informed of the releases of offerings relevant to their business
• Serve as the main point of contact between the Product Management and Technical Support teams and customers when escalations of critical product issues are required
• Work collaboratively with the account executives responsible for promoting revenue opportunities across a diverse account base and develop a network of advocates among account management teams

• 5+ years of account management or technical customer service experience, preferably within the enterprise software industry
• Experience advocating for customers and an ability to foster and cultivate relationships with enterprise customers and partners by delivering best­-in-­class subscriber value
• Experience dealing with large customers and complex technical support issues and escalations  
• Excellent knowledge in common enterprise software applications and servers
• Experience coordinating across teams including management, sales, customer success, technical support, professional services, marketing, and engineering teams to meet account performance objectives and customer expectations
• Good understanding of technical support and professional services processes and workflows
• Excellent understanding of the open source development model and open source software solutions like cloud computing and DevOps
• Outstanding communication skills to lead on­site, strategic business reviews highlighting aspects of customer success with stakeholders ranging from individual contributors to executive management
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize your workload

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