Technical Account Manager driving customer success by supporting strategic customers at Proofpoint. Ensuring maximum product value and managing escalations in a technical environment with minimal supervision.
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. Requires little supervision on assigned tasks.
Works independently on routine tasks. Responsible for scheduling own time and for quality completion of multiple tasks within a varying environment of changing constraints. Uses independent judgment within broad parameters. Designs and implements solutions to complex problems with minimum supervision.
Requirements
3 + years of industry experience in a client/professional services, 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
Ability to develop relationships across multiple organizational boundaries including Support, Operations, and Engineering
Work with the relevant technical teams to proactively handle customer configurations and recommend customer environment upgrades and add-ons
Desire and ability to coach and mentor your peers to help improve their technical knowledge, project management skills, customer management skills
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Comprehensive benefits
Learning & Development: We are committed to the growth and development of our team members, offering a range of programs including leadership and professional development workshops, stretch project assignments, and mentoring opportunities to help employees reach their full potential.
Flexible work environment: [Remote options, hybrid schedules, flexible hours, etc.].
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