Lead Account Technical Strategist (ATS) is responsible for strategic technical engagement with our customer’s business and IT decision-makers. Leading the end-to-end customer journey, as a trusted advisor, Lead ATS will develop a technology roadmap to achieve customer's business and IT goals, identify opportunities that increase value creation, provide technical expertise that informs and impacts sales execution, develop value propositions essential to increased customer consumption and adoption, and utilizing a superior customer focus to facilitate ongoing partnership and customer retention. As a Lead ATS you will seek to forge new & innovative technology solutions that can be implemented and adopted to solve complex business problems for some of the largest organizations in the world.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities
- Develop strategic partnerships and build trusted relationships with customers, technical stakeholders, and decision-makers, typically at senior levels across the customer’s organization
- Fully integrate with customers, maintaining essential relationships across all levels through regular and consistent communication.
- Possess a comprehensive understanding of customers’ highly dynamic and constantly changing environments and create strategic plans that align with customers' future goals.
- Provide technical thought leadership and articulate industry trends and insights, serving as a trusted technology advisor both internally and externally.
- Orchestrate technical engagement and resources to ensure customer needs are met, navigating a landscape filled with various technologies and compatibility factors.
- Overcome technical and competitive objections, accelerating the technical evaluation component of the sales cycle.
- Assess the potential application of products to meet customers’ business needs and demonstrate the value of solutions provided, ensuring high customer satisfaction and minimizing churn.
- Conduct product demonstrations and technical presentations remotely or at customer locations, driving adoption and consumption in collaboration with Customer Success and internal stakeholders.
- Engage in continuous discovery, bringing in resources such as SAs, PSEs, and PMs for demonstrations and discussions on new features, and adjust strategies as needs and goals change.
- Build complex, multi-product proof of concept solutions for customer evaluations as part of a sales engagement process.
- Manage various customer concerns, from licensing to wide-scale product needs, and coordinate with internal senior leaders and SMEs to ensure seamless service and resolution.
- Conduct regular case reviews, anticipate issues before they arise, and consistently engage with customers to ensure their environments are running optimally.
- Keep thorough records of all customer interactions, current use cases, potential future use cases, ov