Customer Success Manager (Architect)

Introduction
A Customer Success Manager Architect (CSM) career in IBM means a career where you’re helping clients fully realize the value of their existing IBM products whilst growing their adoption of next-generation technologies from across IBM’s wider portfolio.

It means being a trusted strategic advisor to some of the world’s most transformational enterprises and culturally influential brands as they rely on your expertise and our technology to solve some of their hardest problems.

Excellent onboarding and an industry leading learning culture will set you up for positive impact and success whilst ongoing development will advance your career through an upward trajectory. Our sales environment is collaborative and experiential. Part of a team you’ll be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that will have a positive impact to the world around us.

This is an opportunity to shape the future for both IBM and its clients. Start your journey now!

Your Role and Responsibilities
Your Role and Responsibilities
A Customer Success Manager opportunity in IBM might be different to what you’re used to. In addition to the people and commercial skills often associated with this position an IBM CSM is also an Architect. Someone with a deep understanding of technical complexities – from initial architecture to implementation and deployment. A person who can quickly understand clients’ hard-to-understand technology issue and communicate them back in an easy-to-understand way.

Using your technical expertise and a consultative style you’ll quickly build credibility as a trusted advisor at all levels. To drive expansion and renewal growth you’ll guide IT executives through the changes needed to realise the full value of expanding their adoption of IBM’s products.

We’re passionate about success. If this role is right for you then your achievements mean your career is flourishing and our clients are thriving. To help ensure this win-win outcome a ‘day-in-the life’ of this role may include but not be limited to…

• Understanding clients’ main challenges and becoming a trusted technical expert for their migration deployment and adoption of Hybrid Cloud and AI Growth offerings.
• Facilitating use case exploration and business framing workshops and creating client value realization models.
• Leading technical conversations that persuade clients to act based on requirements and value provided by IBM’s solutions.
• Creating post-deployment customer success plans that continually increase post-launch active user adoption of IBM’s products.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Background of hands-on practical application within either Cloud Data and AI Automation Integration to quickly build credible trust with client stakeholders.
• Technical understanding of Containers Kubernetes and OpenShift a plus
• Ability to show customers how to “use” the offerings to get to first productive use and proactive expansion
• Demonstrable success of communication and personal relationship development at all levels – from engineers to CIOs – with experience of navigating challenging debate to reach healthy resolutions.
• Understanding of enterprise software implementations SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and cloud applications
• Can manage multiple customer accounts and projects simultaneously

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Eperience working with a broad spectrum of technology solutions – Cloud Data & AI etc.
• Experience working in sales of software SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and/or Cloud
• Professional working proficiency English and Korea
• Certification in Redhat is plus