Senior Technical Account Manager

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The Senior Technical Account Manager is a seasoned account management, program/project management and technical resolution professional who is at the top of their field. They are unified with team members across the company in exceeding customer expectations, improving our processes and technology, and meeting company growth objectives. This key professional is responsible for resolving the most complex problems and providing excellent technical and customer service to one or more named enterprise-level accounts. Working with the most skilled resources across the company, he/she will help our most strategic and large customers overcome issues that arise, succeed in their business using our technology and services, expand their usage of our products, be a reference to prospective customers, and be a long-term and loyal customer.

Major Functions/Responsibilities

Account Management

Partner with Sales and Sales Engineering during the final stages of the sales process to understand the opportunity, mitigate early identified risks and ensure a successful implementation timeline with aligned CX resources.

Be the assigned enterprise account's single point of contact and function as their professional advocate and relationship manager within CX, ensuring fulfillment of contract deliverable's, SLA management, ongoing customer education and product enhancement

Develop and maintain an effective and productive relationship with assigned account(s) at all levels within their organization (from front-line contact center management through senior/executive leadership)

Clear understanding of the assigned accounts' business goals and directions and drive return on investment with our products and services

Hold regular discussions that balance proactive and reactive work and result in becoming their trusted partner and advisor (report progress on strategic direction, understand their contact center and business, ensure that CX's solutions meet their needs, assess training needs, share best practices, consistently increase their success, review project status, review and drive resolution of open issues, etc.)

Partnering with other CX employees and teams (Technical Support, Professional Services, Subject Matter Experts, Product Management, Engineering, etc.), ensure that proper resources are engaged to resolve all technical challenges/issues/cases/requests properly and within SLA targets

Responsible for customer satisfaction, retention and reference ability for all assigned accounts and drives improvements that ensure we do this across our enterprise customer base

Project Management

Work with Project Managers to ensure that projects mesh well with the overall strategy and are implemented successfully

Coordinate all projects to ensure that they are all synchronized and completed as agreed (some projects will be managed by the Principal Technical Account Manager, however if the project is too big and would distract them from their overall work, they will engage Project Manager to drive the project)

Technical

Excellent triage and advanced troubleshooting skills

Demonstrate superior in-depth knowledge of CX products and associated technologies, especially those employed by assigned accounts, with subject matter expertise in two or more technical areas

Exemplary expertise and knowledge in telecommunications, contact center, and related technologies

Utilize a deep understanding of each customer's environment to identify customer needs and implement solutions that will accelerate their success. Help others across the company understand how the customer is using our products, ensuring that we use that understanding to continue to innovate and deliver best in class enterprise-level solutions and services

Exemplify deep knowledge of competitive product lines, differentiators and industry trends through self-education and CX's resources, and share that knowledge with co-workers

Communication

Arrange and conduct regular Service and Technology Reviews with proper customer and CX stakeholders

Develop and present compelling customized presentations to assigned accounts that both quantify and qualify product/service usage, realized benefits, achievements, opportunities and next steps

Contributes to enterprise-level product strategy and direction by participating with the Product and Practice Specialist team to communicate enhancements and issues to Product Management and Engineering

Ensure that all communication, interactions, assignments, details and actions are clear, effective, timely (within established SLA), and are logged into the CRM system

Appropriately contribute to and take charge of meetings, calls and other discussions …