Onsite Technical Account Manager, German Speaking

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About the role

  • Technical Account Manager providing proactive leadership and support to Proofpoint’s strategic customers. Managing technical interactions and ensuring customer satisfaction in cybersecurity solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Independently provide ongoing and proactive technical leadership and support to Proofpoint’s strategic customers with little direction
  • Manage and monitor support interactions, serving as an internal advocate for strategic customers, responding to customer escalations, and proactively escalating when needed
  • Direct crisis and incident response, working with the account team, technical support, operations and engineering teams to ensure timely resolution, while communicating effectively with customers
  • Meet regularly with clients, both remotely and on-site, to review support interactions, system status, major issues, upcoming releases, and other pertinent items
  • Create and deliver executive customer presentations that outline system performance, potential issues, ROI and suggested forward courses of action
  • Develop deep understanding of customer’s business and operational needs
  • Maintain deep practical technical knowledge of Proofpoint’s integration within the customer's environment, including network, security, systems administration, and messaging management
  • Develop and oversee a comprehensive strategy to meet complex customer requirements utilizing Proofpoint’s solutions
  • Provide proactive recommendations that support the customer's requirements, roadmap and ongoing technical needs
  • Identify and prioritize short term and long-term goals
  • Plan and lead process improvement initiatives tailored to improve customer satisfaction with the services and interaction with the Proofpoint Team
  • Plan, document, and identify risks and challenges for production changes that span multiple services or technologies
  • Responsible for scheduling own time and for quality completion of multiple tasks within a varying environment of changing constraints
  • Use independent judgment within broad parameters
  • Designs and implements solutions to complex problems

Requirements

  • 4+ years of industry experience in a client/professional service, sales engineer, senior support engineer, IT operations management, or senior engineer role with exposure to multiple technology areas
  • Knowledge of data communication concepts and technologies, specifically email and networking knowledge of Linux, SMTP, and MySQL
  • Working knowledge of Windows, Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange
  • Very strong customer service and excellent communications skills, both written and oral
  • A history of successfully leading and directing technical staff through crisis situations
  • Adaptable and willing to learn new technologies
  • Knowledge of project management and strong time management skills
  • Ability to effectively work in a team environment as well as independently
  • Fluent German speaker is mandatory for this position

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Career success on your terms
  • Flexible work environment
  • Annual wellness and community outreach days
  • Always on recognition for your contributions
  • Global collaboration and networking opportunities

Job title

Technical Account Manager, German Speaking

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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