Senior Customer Success Manager

Who we are.

Solo enables companies to Connect, Secure and Observe modern applications – APIs, Microservices and Data – with the industry’s leading API and Service Mesh Management Platform (“Gloo”). Solo innovations allow companies to stay on the leading edge of both technology and business possibilities.

Solo is a VC-backed company, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine. In 2021, Solo was valued at $1B. Solo’s customers are some of the largest in the world, spanning all geographies and industries. Solo’s team has deep expertise in Cloud Computing, Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, APIs, Security, Microservice Applications, Application Modernization, GraphQL, and eBPF.

About the role.

The Customer Success Manager helps companies learn, adopt, and scale their applications with the Solo.io product portfolio by developing successful partnerships with customers and ensuring they realize the desired value from our products. Works with the customer throughout the customer lifecycle with responsibility for customer advocacy, onboarding, adoption, retention and growth

Job Description:

• Build strong customer relationships with stakeholders and sponsors to ensure Solo's activities align to the customer's desired business outcomes
• Develop success plans aligned to your customers business goals
• Accelerate adoption and minimize customer churn through a programmatic approach that ensures regular touchpoints and guides the customer to value and success throughout the customer lifecycle
• Coordinate and orchestrate activities that solve complex situations working together with Solo's field and engineering teams
• Communicate the benefits of Solo's products and recommend solutions that align with the customers goals
• Manage multiple issues and coordinate the resources needed to resolve customer challenges efficiently
• Own a specific subset of your portfolio’s commercial renewals(gathering of licensable metrics, pricing/negotiation, quoting and order form generation, navigate to close)

Job Requirements:

• 4+ years of customer success or account management experience within the enterprise software industry
• Excels at leading on­site and virtual business meetings with stakeholders ranging from individual contributors to executive leadership
• Advanced ability to manage critical customer situations with calm professionalism, empathy, and compassion
• Self-starter comfortable with adapting to fast moving additions to Solo.io products and related technologies.

What you’ll love about Solo.

At Solo, our culture is all about hiring great people, creating a fun and fast-paced work culture, and letting our teams work with our customers to successfully solve their challenges.

Solo works collaboratively with our customers, partners and open source communities to deliver technology innovation, technology solutions, architectural best-practices, and hands-on education. Solo uses a unique engagement model with our customers that allows us to quickly make them successful, and continue to work closely with them as their production environments grow.

Solo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Originally posted on Himalayas