Technical Customer Success Manager - Automotive

HERE Technologies; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Technical Customer Success Manager to drive successful delivery and engagement of advanced automotive solutions. This role demands program management expertise, strong technical skills, and a focus on building long-lasting relationships with strategic clients. The candidate will oversee customer journeys, ensuring maximum value from HERE's offerings while collaborating with various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of technical experience in a pre-sales or management role.
• Strong understanding of Automotive infotainment and cloud solutions.
• PMI PMP certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall success of key customer accounts and drive adoption of HERE products.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure effective delivery and project completion.
• Proactively identify and manage risks and customer relationship escalations.

Skills

Technical Account Management

Relationship Building

Program Management

Strategic Thinking

Problem Solving

Risk Management

Technical Expertise

Communication Skills

Education

Graduate bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Job description

We are a group of self-motivated individuals who work closely with our customers, to provide support through the entire customer journey. From pre-sales to onboarding to adoption and expansion, we are the Voice of the Customer. Our primary objectives are to Engage, Adopt, Expand, and Retain relationships with our customers and help bring their visions to reality. We foster a highly collaborative environment working closely with our Customers, Engineering, Product Management etc. to help build the best location services available in the market today. It’s highly rewarding when we get to see much of our work out in the real world in location-based applications and services used in the everyday. If this sounds like something you want to do, then we’d love to talk with you.

The Role :

As a Technical Customer Succes Manager , you will be responsible for the successful delivery, adoption, and ongoing engagement of HERE’s technology solutions to customers and ensuring these solutions continue to be successful for the customer over time. You’ll oversee day-to-day customer relationships as well as actively participate in retaining and growing those relationships.

The role will focus on key and strategic accounts in Automotive, utilizing HERE products and services.

Main Responsibilities :

• Own the overall success of the account (high-touch engagement), develop and executive a Success Plan to help Customers maximize the value from utilizing HERE products / services, with a laser focus on customer centricity.
• Drive complex, strategic and large-scale customer programs (large Automotive OEM)
• Collaborate with stakeholders and manage cross-functionally to ensure successful customer delivery (product launches, POC, projects,
• Proactively identify and manage risks, and project escalations from the client and work with the Project / Program Managers to resolution, driving projects to successful completion
• Be the Voice of the Customer for a broad portfolio of products and services by providing regular feedback to Product and Sales, as well as proactively drive executive-level review and decision making as needed
• Own customer journey, drive adoption, expansion of customer footprint with HERE products and services, drive to provide value to increase customer retention & advocacy.
• Consult clients on potential opportunities to improve their Navigation, IoT and LBS solutions, in conjunction with HERE Sales teams
• Acts as the main technical customer interface and ensure customer requirements are understood across internal divisions
• Identify gaps in methodologies and / or processes for any part of the customer lifecycle and drive change for continuous improvement
• Travel up to 25%, both domestic and international, to meet customers and suppliers as needed

Who are you?

This role requires a high level of expertise in program management and proactive relationship building, leadership, technical expertise, and commercial awareness, as well as the ability to influence positive outcomes, along with most of the following :

• 5-10 years of technical experience (content / software / engineering) with a pre-sales track record or an equivalent technically oriented management function
• Experience in Customer Success and strong Technical Account Management skills working with large enterprise customers. Experience in all aspects of program management (execution and delivery) involving large cross-functional teams.
• A strong sense of ownership of the customer account & ensure a trusted partnership is established with the customer.
• Excellent consultative, advisory, organizational skills with an aptitude for strategic thinking, proactive risk management and problem solving
• Sound understanding of Automotive infotainment, ADAS, in-vehicle and cloud solutions
• Strong leadership & communication skills, with ability to influence people outside of one’s own managerial matrix and a track record of solid cross-functional stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English, and inter-cultural work experience; local language skills are a plus
• Graduate bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or an equivalent technical field preferred. PMI PMP certification (or equivalent) is a plus.

As part of HERE Technologies employment process, candidates will be required to successfully complete a background verification process. This offer and any related claims are subject to the successful completion of a background verification. - #LI-MS1