IBM
Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry‑leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI‑powered, cloud‑native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi‑cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.
Your Role And Responsibilities Customer Success Engineers (CSE) are responsible for customer technical health and the post‑sales customer journey. They are our customers’ primary technical point of contact, driving solution consumption via onboarding, adoption and maturity modeling, and value attainment. You will enable our customers’ adoption of high‑value product use cases and help integrate their HashiCorp tools into their software/development stacks. You will also mitigate on‑time renewal risks by cementing the value of HashiCorp tools.
Responsibilities Through continuous engagement, CSEs help clear technical blockers, optimize solution design, and accelerate time‑to‑value for customers adopting HashiCorp tooling. The CSE team demonstrates our practical technical expertise across the HashiCorp stack to help our customers address their business challenges with our technologies, drive effective implementation of HashiCorp tooling, increase customer value attainment through expanded product uptake, and secure on‑time renewals and expansions of customer investments in the HashiCorp toolchain.
Responsible for success of your assigned customer accounts throughout the customer journey, from onboarding through adoption and expansion/extension/renewal phases, as measured by customer product consumption, health, retention and growth
Serve as a subject matter expert for our customers’ usage of our tools to solve business challenges, providing customers with technical and business‑oriented guidance at strategic points throughout their customer journey with HashiCorp
Establish and maintain an understanding of the overall HashiCorp technology portfolio, and leverage this knowledge in conjunction with business insights to help improve customer application delivery and help customers use HashiCorp tooling to drive measurable value‑based outcomes
Understand and document customer goals, challenges, business objectives and technical requirements in order to provide solutions, guidance and engagements tailored to each customer’s needs
Ensure the timely creation and upkeep of account health scores, notes, and calls to action in Gainsight
Partner with the aligned account sales team to both identify, handle and mitigate customer risk across the customer’s lifecycle with HashiCorp and to identify and develop opportunities to expand the depth and breadth of customer utilization of the HashiCorp toolchain
Work cross‑functionally with internal partners in product and engineering teams to translate customer business requirements into additional features to improve our product offerings
Lead and coordinate account recovery actions for escalated customers, driving their successful de‑escalation and return to normal health
Preferred Education Master’s Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
5 years experience with solution architecture, sales engineering, technical account management or equivalent experience
Proficiency and experience with concepts and technologies using software development, operations, security cloud, microservices, containers, and scheduling platform
Proficiency and/or knowledge of existing solutions in the same domain as HashiCorp tools (e.g., Infrastructure Automation, Identity Management and Dev/Ops) such as Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault, and others
Exceptional communication skills, including experience developing and delivering technical content, experience asking effective questions to understand customer business priorities and needs, and comfort handling customer objections
Passion for learning and working with new technologies, and willingness to dive into new areas of knowledge without external motivation and with an eye for detail
Ability to work well in a highly‑dynamic environment that focuses on providing outstanding customer service
Experience planning projects and leading customers through implementations of highly‑technical products
Comfort working with and advising both technical and business partners across the customer lifecycle
Fluency in understanding, quantifying and empathizing with customer organizational pain and prescribing technical and process solutions to mitigate those difficulties
Expertise in driving adoption of product use cases to enhance customer value attainment and satisfaction
Skill in identifying and addressing customer risk, and confidence in mitigating it
Comfort working remotely and performing well given a high level of independence and autonomy
Up to 50% travel required
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Your Role And Responsibilities Customer Success Engineers (CSE) are responsible for customer technical health and the post‑sales customer journey. They are our customers’ primary technical point of contact, driving solution consumption via onboarding, adoption and maturity modeling, and value attainment. You will enable our customers’ adoption of high‑value product use cases and help integrate their HashiCorp tools into their software/development stacks. You will also mitigate on‑time renewal risks by cementing the value of HashiCorp tools.
Responsibilities Through continuous engagement, CSEs help clear technical blockers, optimize solution design, and accelerate time‑to‑value for customers adopting HashiCorp tooling. The CSE team demonstrates our practical technical expertise across the HashiCorp stack to help our customers address their business challenges with our technologies, drive effective implementation of HashiCorp tooling, increase customer value attainment through expanded product uptake, and secure on‑time renewals and expansions of customer investments in the HashiCorp toolchain.
Responsible for success of your assigned customer accounts throughout the customer journey, from onboarding through adoption and expansion/extension/renewal phases, as measured by customer product consumption, health, retention and growth
Serve as a subject matter expert for our customers’ usage of our tools to solve business challenges, providing customers with technical and business‑oriented guidance at strategic points throughout their customer journey with HashiCorp
Establish and maintain an understanding of the overall HashiCorp technology portfolio, and leverage this knowledge in conjunction with business insights to help improve customer application delivery and help customers use HashiCorp tooling to drive measurable value‑based outcomes
Understand and document customer goals, challenges, business objectives and technical requirements in order to provide solutions, guidance and engagements tailored to each customer’s needs
Ensure the timely creation and upkeep of account health scores, notes, and calls to action in Gainsight
Partner with the aligned account sales team to both identify, handle and mitigate customer risk across the customer’s lifecycle with HashiCorp and to identify and develop opportunities to expand the depth and breadth of customer utilization of the HashiCorp toolchain
Work cross‑functionally with internal partners in product and engineering teams to translate customer business requirements into additional features to improve our product offerings
Lead and coordinate account recovery actions for escalated customers, driving their successful de‑escalation and return to normal health
Preferred Education Master’s Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
5 years experience with solution architecture, sales engineering, technical account management or equivalent experience
Proficiency and experience with concepts and technologies using software development, operations, security cloud, microservices, containers, and scheduling platform
Proficiency and/or knowledge of existing solutions in the same domain as HashiCorp tools (e.g., Infrastructure Automation, Identity Management and Dev/Ops) such as Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault, and others
Exceptional communication skills, including experience developing and delivering technical content, experience asking effective questions to understand customer business priorities and needs, and comfort handling customer objections
Passion for learning and working with new technologies, and willingness to dive into new areas of knowledge without external motivation and with an eye for detail
Ability to work well in a highly‑dynamic environment that focuses on providing outstanding customer service
Experience planning projects and leading customers through implementations of highly‑technical products
Comfort working with and advising both technical and business partners across the customer lifecycle
Fluency in understanding, quantifying and empathizing with customer organizational pain and prescribing technical and process solutions to mitigate those difficulties
Expertise in driving adoption of product use cases to enhance customer value attainment and satisfaction
Skill in identifying and addressing customer risk, and confidence in mitigating it
Comfort working remotely and performing well given a high level of independence and autonomy
Up to 50% travel required
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