Senior Technical Customer Success Manager

Kong Inc.; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong Inc. in the United States is seeking a Customer Experience specialist to lead lifecycle engagement with a portfolio of customers, driving adoption of APIs, microservices, and Kong's platform.

You will collaborate with Americas sales and deliver value across the customer journey. This role emphasizes strong organization, communication, and the ability to leverage self-service tooling and reusable assets to scale outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in SaaS, Open Source or Infrastructure software preferred.
• Excellent organizational skills and self-starter mindset.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud native architectures.
• Solid grasp of DevOps, CI/CD and cloud computing IaaS.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, and microservices.
• Experience with API management (APIM) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coach customers throughout their lifecycle in collaboration with CX teams.
• Define what good adoption and post-sales engagement look like and why.
• Collaborate with Sales and Product to maximize customer outcomes.
• Help innovate tooling and processes for team efficiency.
• Work on innovative customer projects leveraging Kong technologies.
• Learn Kong products and apply knowledge to real-world usage.
• Collaborate with peers, partners, and groups across Kong.

Skills

Builder mentality

Portfolio management

Cloud native tech

APIM understanding

DevOps & CI/CD

Kubernetes

Containerization

Strong communication

Job description

Are you ready to unlock intelligence?

You will be working at a dynamic and fast paced start-up as a member of the Customer Experience (CX) team. You will be enabling Customers to leverage APIs and microservices to drive their business initiatives in one of the most exciting and innovative technology domains in the industry. This team is responsible for interfacing with our customers throughout their lifecycle helping them realize the value of their Kong investment.

As a member of the CX team you will act as a champion for our most critical asset, our customers. You will be working with a portfolio of customers seeking to identify growth opportunities and ensuring they have what they need to be successful. In this role you will work alongside the Americas sales teams and will have the opportunity to build a large portfolio of Customers.

This is an incredibly exciting and challenging role at the forefront of technology, requiring someone with very strong organizational and communication skills. You will not only be building strong relationships with key customers, you will be pioneering the approach to managing customers by leveraging self service technology and re-usable assets to maximize the value Kong can provide.

Working at Kong presents a unique opportunity to help to modernize enterprise software and learn about how businesses run in the digital age.

Above all you’ll be acting as a stellar teammate for the rest of Kong.

What You'll do:

• Coaching our customers throughout their lifecycle while working collaboratively with the rest of the Customer Experience teams to ensure customer outcomes




• Defining what ‘good’ looks like in terms of adoption plans, post-sales engagement, what is recommended and why




• Working with Sales and Product teams to ensure our customers are getting the most out of the solution




• Helping innovate our tooling and processes to make you and your team more efficient




• Working on innovative and cutting edge customer projects




• Learning our products and technologies, taking that knowledge and applying it to real world usage




• Collaborating with other peers, business partners and groups. Representing not only yourself and the rest of your team but all of Kong and other exciting tasks you may identify to grow our company

What You'll Bring:

• Have a builder’s mentality, seeking to find solutions to complex problems that will make life better for our customers and Kong




• Manage a portfolio of commercial customers, looking for patterns that can be addressed through an automated approach using the latest customer engagement techniques




• Have passion and determination about our technology and our customers




• Be a self starter with strong organizational skills to drive effective customer outcomes




• Have a good understanding of complex technology environments




• Have great self awareness and strong communication skills




• Ideally have prior experience of a similar role within SaaS, Open Source and/or Infrastructure software companies




• Have a solid understanding of Cloud Native and the technologies that make it work (Containerization, Kubernetes, Microservices) as well as have a have a foundational understanding of APIM




• Finally, understands the value of DevOps, CI/CD and Cloud Computing IaaS

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About Kong:

Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.