Business Consultation: Consult with customers to provide technical advice on NetApp products and services, focusing on key areas to enhance their product experience and achieve business goals. Based on customer needs, recommend and manage customer training plans.
Relationship Building: Develop and nurture relationships with customers, focused on key technical personas (VP Infrastructure, Infrastructure Architect, Storage Admin and Engineer, Security and Compliance Lead), becoming a trusted technical advisor and advocate throughout their journey with NetApp.
Onboarding, Adoption, and Capacity Management: Facilitate smooth onboarding and adoption activities, collaborating with customers to co-create technical success plans tailored to their specific needs and goals. Facilitate guided demos tailored to the customer's environment and needs.
Technical Health Checks & Escalation Management: Conduct technical health checks with customers to assess product adoption, address technical challenges, security vulnerabilities, share recommended solutions, and identify areas for improvement. Manage P1 escalations alongside key internal resources and provide visibility into P2-P4 issues.
Proactive Technical Engagement: Use advanced data insights and technical knowledge to monitor adoption and/or utilization and assist with predictive risk mitigation, guiding customers to recognize greater value from NetApp solutions.
Asset Management: Provide assessments and consulting to customers to maintain and optimize their inventory of NetApp assets and services while identifying and qualifying opportunities to expand, replace, or optimize their environments.
Renewal and Expansion: Collaborate with Renewal Specialists and Field Sales to design and implement technical health plans with the goal of value realization, ensuring successful renewal leveraging NetApp's product portfolio. Provide guidance on their solutions, what they should be consuming, and make recommendations for renewal, refresh, and expansion.
Best Practices Development: Develop, document, and share technical best practices with team members to continually improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of processes and playbooks.
Strategic Initiatives: Lead and contribute to strategic technical initiatives that enhance customer success, drive innovation, and support organizational goals.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Renewal Specialists, Field Sales, and other technical teams to ensure an exceptional customer experience and drive the technical customer success strategy with wider account team members.
Who You'll Work With: Professional Services, Support Teams, Sales Teams, NetApp Pre and Post Sales Technical Teams, and Customer Technical Stakeholders