Technical Customer Success Manager

Cisco

Nashville (TN)

On-site

USD 118,000 - 148,600

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Technical Customer Success Manager in Nashville, TN, to enhance customer engagement and satisfaction through successful technology adoption. This role requires extensive experience in IT customer relationships, optimizing business outcomes, and driving software utilization, making it crucial for ensuring client's success with Cisco's technologies.

Qualifications

8+ years in a customer-facing role in an IT organization.
Understanding fundamental networking concepts.
Experience developing software adoption plans across technology portfolios.

Responsibilities

Guide customers through software adoption and business goals.
Drive ARR growth in partnership with Sales and Renewals teams.
Implement Technical Adoption Plans with Customer Success Specialists.

Skills

Customer relationship management

Technical adoption strategies

Business outcomes optimization

Software utilization

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Base pay range

$118,000.00/yr - $148,600.00/yr

Application window is expected to close on 6/15/25

Ideal candidate will currently reside in Minnesota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa or Ohio.

Meet the Team

You will work closely with a diverse range of Customer Experience (CX) resources, including Customer Success Specialists (CSS), Renewals teams, and Partners. Your role involves partnering with Sales and Renewals teams to drive Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth. This collaborative environment will enable you to leverage the expertise and support of various team members to achieve shared goals and deliver exceptional value to our customers.

Your Impact

As a Customer Success Manager, you play a crucial role in helping our customers successfully adopt and use Cisco technologies, driving value realization and growth. You will be the primary point of contact for customers, guiding them through software adoption and enabling them to accomplish their business and technical goals.

You are a technical professional whose sweet spot is in customer relationships and success. You are proactive and strategic, with a passion for driving software utilization to accelerate business outcomes. You excel at creating and implementing Technical Adoption Plans that lead software outcomes and optimize Return on Investment. Your ability to connect Cisco's offerings to success measures and remove adoption barriers is unmatched. You focus on driving ARR growth and work collaboratively with Renewals and Sales teams. You have a keen eye for identifying new opportunities and are dedicated to ensuring customer success and satisfaction.

Acting as a technology advocate, providing feedback to Cisco’s product teams for development and enhancements, and staying current with the latest Cisco technologies, competitive landscape, and industry trends.
Offering expert guidance to customers, ensuring they achieve their business and technical goals with Cisco technologies.
Driving software utilization and value realization, leading to customer renewals and business growth.
Proactively handling renewal risks, demonstrating insights to increase customer retention, and facilitating workshops to review adoption progress and ensure successful onboarding.
Building strong relationships with customer partners to understand their challenges and objectives, and collaborating with Sales, Customer Success, Renewals, and Business Entities to identify use cases that drive value and business outcomes.
Advocating for the customer within Cisco, ensuring their needs are met and that they receive a high-quality customer experience.
Build and implement Technical Adoption Plans in partnership with Customer Success Specialists (CSS) that align with customer goals to maximize their technology investments and promote the full use of our technologies.

Minimum Qualifications

8 + years working in a customer facing role in an IT company or in an Enterprise IT organization.
Understanding of fundamental networking concepts - skills and knowledge to set up, manage, fix, and troubleshoot small to medium-level networks.
Experience developing software adoption plans across technology portfolio
Driving software adoption with customer executives and technical leaders
Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrix organization

Preferred Qualifications:

Financial, Renewal, and/or adoption forecasting experience
Experience as a technology advocate
Proven ability to offer expert guidance to customers, helping them achieve business and technical goals
Experience driving software utilization and value realization (Customer renewals)
Proficiency in proactively managing renewal risks, demonstrating insights to increase customer retention
Strong relationship-building skills
Experience collaborating with teams to drive value and business outcomes.
Advocacy skills
Experience building and implementing Technical Adoption Plans

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