We're looking for a Senior Engagement Manager, located in Australia who will be responsible for managing aspects of our relationship with its Elastic Engineering customers. You must possess customer-facing skills that enable you to represent us well within a customer's environment, and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding work prioritization, incidents, trade-offs, best practices, and risk management. The right candidate measures important performance indicators and is data-driven.
If you get a thrill out of working with cutting-edge technology and love to help solve customers' problems, we'd love to hear from you. It's time to rethink what is possible. Are you ready?
What you'll be doing
Managing customers, aligning business objectives with coordinated service deliveries, and ensuring that our customers maximize the value they are seeing from their investment.
Acting as the primary point of contact for one or more customers helping to plan as well as oversee ongoing operations of our service delivery.
Working with the customer, by utilizing your project management skills, to put together on-boarding schedules and tasks.
Providing guidance on how best to utilize our services, provide an escalation point for issues, and help provide reporting to ensure customers' faith in the service.
Travel to the customer site at least two days a week in Sydney
Qualifications & Experience
At least 7 years of relevant direct customer support experience
At least 3 years of experience in a tech industry role performing project management using PMI best practices and/or Agile Scrum methodologies
Knowledge of cloud technologies
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Some experience in writing operating procedures
Experience in setting and managing client expectations
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Solid experience in filtering and providing data and reports to customers, utilizing PowerPoint and Excel
Ability to understand technical problems and translate between non-technical and technical teams
Demonstrated customer focus and advocacy
Bachelor's degree preferred