Customer Success Manager II

F5, Inc; Saudi Arabia; On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a dynamic Customer Success Manager to empower clients in maximizing their investments in cutting-edge technologies. This role involves fostering strong relationships, guiding clients through onboarding, and ensuring successful adoption of cloud-based solutions. As a trusted advisor, you will collaborate with various teams to drive customer satisfaction and retention. If you are passionate about technology and customer success, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Travel opportunities

Professional development programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Customer Success with technology focus.
• Proficient in BIG-IP and NGINX, with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure customers maximize F5 investment and drive adoption.
• Guide customers through onboarding and deployment phases.
• Analyze customer data to create success plans and feedback.

Skills

BIG-IP

NGINX

Cloud-based solutions

Customer relationship management

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computing

Master’s degree in Business or Information Technology

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Customer Success is integral to our long-term success as a company. Our Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are trusted advisors, guiding customers from the point of sale through onboarding, project success, adoption, and renewals. CSMs collaborate closely with internal F5 teams to provide strategic insights, enhance customer use of F5 solutions, and identify opportunities for expanding product adoption.

This role requires a level of technical experience within the industry. Including working knowledge of BIG-IP, NGINX, or with experience in similar technologies like load balancers, application delivery, application security and cloud networking. The CSM will help customers maximize the value of their investment, ensure adoption of F5 solutions across their portfolios, and promote successful business outcomes.

We are looking for dynamic, goal-driven CSM who excel at adapting their strategies to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. These professionals will act as enablers, keeping customers engaged, guiding them to achieve their desired outcomes, and ensuring they fully realize the value of their F5 investment.

As a CSM, you will play a vital role in fostering strong customer relationships, driving adoption, and advocating for customer needs across the organization. Your ability to think strategically, communicate effectively, and collaborate cross-functionally will be key to creating meaningful, measurable success for our customers. If you're passionate about empowering customers and driving long-term value, we invite you to join our team and make a significant impact.

Primary Responsibilities

Customer Success & Value Generation

• Ensure customers maximize the value of their F5 investment by fully utilizing licenses, adopting new use cases, and achieving strategic outcomes.
• Guide customers through key milestones, including onboarding, deployment, upgrades, and adoption of BIG-IP, NGINX, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
• Increase renewal rates, reduce churn, and drive business growth through advocacy and reference-ability.
• Promote available resources and communities to encourage efficient product utilization and engagement.
• Act as a trusted advisor, addressing improvement requests and resolving critical issues.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Partner with account teams and internal stakeholders to develop strategies, overcome customer pain points and create success plans that drive & optimize renewals.
• Support customers' cloud and multi-cloud strategies, offering guidance and resources to align with their business goals.
• Manage relationships across teams to streamline onboarding, training, and renewal activities while identifying cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.
• Maintain accurate and consistent updates in the CRM system, documenting business objectives and success metrics.
• Advocate for customers within sales, product, and support organizations, ensuring alignment with their needs and goals.

Industry Knowledge

• Drive the customer journey by identifying engagement opportunities and delivering tailored success plans.
• Use customer usage data and health indicators to develop actionable strategies for growth and renewal.
• Leverage expertise in BIG-IP, NGINX, and distributed cloud solutions to address customer challenges effectively.

Critical Thinking & Results

• Analyze customer data to create measurable success plans and provide feedback to product teams, influencing roadmap improvements.
• Champion Customer Success by contributing to tools, systems, and best practices.
• Ensure alignment with company ethics and policies while performing additional related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience in a customer-facing role within the technology industry, with proficiency in BIG-IP, NGINX, cloud-based solutions, and multi-cloud environments.
• Ability to distill complex technical and business concepts into clear, actionable insights.
• Proven ability to build lasting customer relationships and drive revenue growth.
• Strong communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills with a collaborative and proactive approach.
• Resilience under pressure with excellent time management and focus on delivery.
• Availability to travel up to 25% within your home region, including occasional out of country trips.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering technology and business outcomes in Customer Success or a related role, with a Bachelor’s degree; or 5+ years with a Master’s degree.
• Degree in Computing, Business, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience preferred.
• Deep understanding of BIG-IP, NGINX, and/or experience in comparable technologies or solutions within the industry, such as load balancing, application delivery, security, or cloud networking platforms.
• Fluent written and verbal comminution skills in Arabic is required. Fluency in English is also extremely beneficial.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [e-mail].