Senior Customer Success Manager

Senior Customer Success Manager

  

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

The Customer Success Manager (CSM) is a strategic, customer-facing role responsible for helping clients maximize the value of their HPE solutions and supporting them throughout their digital transformation journey. Serving as a trusted advisor and key member of the account team, the CSM works closely with customers to understand their business goals, operational priorities, and desired outcomes while driving successful onboarding, adoption, and ongoing engagement across HPE’s as-a-service portfolio.

In this role, the CSM partners closely with Sales Specialists and cross-functional teams to strengthen customer relationships, accelerate solution consumption, and identify opportunities for account growth and expansion. The CSM is responsible for driving customer adoption, supporting upsell and cross-sell motions within assigned accounts, and delivering measurable business value through proactive engagement, strategic guidance, and a high level of customer service. This role carries a quota and may require occasional onsite customer engagement and travel.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of a select group of strategic customer accounts.
• Cultivates strong, senior-level relationships within the customer’s organization, including engagement with key stakeholders.
• Successfully onboard customers and help them define and achieve their adoption success criteria.
• Acts as primary advocate for the customer, ensuring their needs, objectives, and desired outcomes are understood and prioritized.
• Develop and maintain a Customer Success Plan for assigned accounts; outlining the customer goals, desired outcomes, and timelines, ensuring customers are receiving consistent experience throughout the entire customer journey.
• Serves as a point of escalation for customer issues, coordinating with various internal teams, including technical support, product management, and engineering, to ensure swift and effective resolution.
• Capture the capabilities of HPE’s offerings and identify gaps related to customer use cases through a closed loop process for each step of the engagement life cycle.
• Drives upsell sales motion in the assigned account base, identifying and closing new expansion opportunities.
• Identify Cross-Sell opportunities and collaborate with Sales Specialists to pursue.

Education and Experience Required:

• A university or bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; advanced University or MBA preferred.
• 5+ years of direct, work-related experience.
• CCSM (Certified Customer Service Manager) - Level 4 or higher certification preferred.
• HPE GreenLake ATP certification preferred.
• Proven experience in customer success management, managing large customer accounts, developing customer success plans, and achieving customer success objectives.
• Considered a trusted advisor externally and a mentor of customer success management internally.
• Viewed as an expert in the given field by company and customer.
• Experience in project/program management preferred.
• Experience in cloud operating models.
• Comfortable supporting customers within the Eastern Time Zone and able to accommodate Eastern Time Zone working hours. This role may require occasional domestic travel (~10–15%) for customer onsite meetings, conferences, and trade shows

Knowledge & Skills:

• A thorough understanding of the technology industry, including trends, market dynamics, emerging technologies, cloud computing and competitive landscape.
• Stay current with industry developments to provide valuable insights to customers.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the company's products and services, including a deep understanding of their features, capabilities, and how they address customer needs.