Customer Success Engineer
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Solve for what’s next—at PagerDuty.
If Elon Musk says “we’re going to Mars”, then you’re the strategic technical resource who knows the intricacies of exactly what’s involved with getting there. As the Enterprise Customer Success Engineer, you will be the primary technical point of contact for multiple enterprise customers wanting to take their operations to “Mars”. You will work alongside the Enterprise Customer Success Manager to understand your customers’ business goals and objectives, and translate those goals into clearly defined technical implementation project plans. To do this, you will apply your full breadth of product knowledge to work with customers in designing workflows and integrations that optimizes and modernizes their operations with the latest PagerDuty technology. As the technical expert on the Customer Success team, peers and customers alike will lean on you for strategic technical advice, and you will play a key role in shaping the operations of enterprise companies undergoing large, digital transformation change.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead discovery sessions with large, enterprise customers to assess and analyze inefficiencies in existing tooling, processes, and operations within and outside of PagerDuty
- Apply product knowledge to advise on optimal solutions for streamlining and improving tooling, processes, and operations in PagerDuty
- Develop custom PagerDuty architectural and integration designs that support customers’ business and technology initiatives while taking into account complexities and customizations in large, enterprise customer environments
- Translate architectural and integration designs into strategic implementation project plans and assist in the execution of defined project plans
- Consult on designs of custom integrations using product, API, and best practice knowledge
- Answer and triage technical questions as a customer’s primary technical point of contact
- Lead technical conversations to influence and improve product adoption while advocating general digital operations best practices
- Own and increase product adoption metrics across multiple enterprise customers at the same time
- Collaborate with Enterprise Customer Success Managers as the primary technical contact in supporting large-scale onboardings and general customer lifecycle initiatives
- Resolve escalated support tickets by collaborating and coordinating with customer support, product management, and engineering teams
- Collect and organize feature requests and prioritize them with product owners, while balancing PagerDuty’s desire to move customers along our product roadmap. Provide insight to the customer regarding our product roadmap and how the new features can be applied to their business.
Qualifications/Skills/Requirements
- 7-10 years similar experience in software/technology
- 2+ years of project management experience
- Experience implementing new systems, integrations, processes at scale
- Knack for grasping technical concepts quickly
- Keen sense and eye for technical details: you don’t like not-knowing something and are willing to go the extra mile to educate yourself and full-proof your product knowledge
- Crazy organized: ability to keep track of and balance several customer engagements that are in different customer lifecycles at the same time
- Team-player: must be able to work across multiple teams across multiple departments
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing product and environment
- Enthusiasm for tackling complex challenges with tactical solutions
- Willingness to contribute to the growth of the team, company, and peers along with a desire to learn and grow as an individual at a personal and professional level
- Analytical problem-solving and risk assessment skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- SQL proficiency
- Coding skills (JavaScript / Python)
- Knowledge of popular SaaS or on-prem tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, Salesforce
PagerDuty offers:
Competitive salaries and company equity
Comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental, and vision plans for you, your spouse and family
401K with 1% match
Pre-tax commuter benefits, FSA, cell phone allowance and more!
Generous parental leave
Paid vacation (3 weeks vacation your first year, 4 weeks afterwards) in addition to 12 paid holidays and ample sick leave
Paid employee Volunteer Time - 20 hours per year
Monthly company wide hack days
Catered lunch daily plus breakfast on Wednesdays, and plenty of snacks and drinks
Convenient office location in SoMa tech hub – accessible by BART, Muni and CalTrain
PagerDuty is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status.
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