Technical Account Manager - Federal

3 Months ago • 3-5 Years • Account Management • $92,500 PA - $122,200 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Technical Account Manager (TAM) role at ThousandEyes focuses on providing proactive support to premium support accounts. The TAM supports a select number of accounts, aligned with the customers' business hours. Key responsibilities include working with customers to resolve issues, optimize networks, provide training, and manage proactive projects. The role requires maintaining services in a FedRAMP compliant environment and requires a U.S. citizen. The TAM collaborates with the 24x7 support team, ensuring a comprehensive support model. They also engage in customer engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and assume the role of escalation manager when needed.
Must have:
  • 3-5 years of support experience in a technical role
  • 3-5 years of experience working directly with customers
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Expert understanding of network and application protocols
Good to have:
  • Experience with Cloud/SaaS software products
  • Strong understanding of ISP, CDN, and cloud service provider networks
  • Strong understanding of web technologies and VoIP applications
  • Hands on experience with hypervisors and container administration tools
  • Knowledge of at least one computer language and programming framework
Perks:
  • Quality medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance and wellbeing offerings
  • Paid holidays and floating holiday
  • Vacation and sick time off

Job Details

Who We Are

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end- user experiences.

ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

About The Role

At ThousandEyes, we operate a little bit differently than most software-as-a-service providers: We’ve recognized that delivery of amazing customer experience is key to driving longer term value and creating customers for life.  We hire industry veterans - people with tried and true experience in the area of network-based service delivery

The TAM role is a proactive support role for premium support accounts: you’ll be responsible for supporting a select number of named accounts, aligned to the customers business hours, and not working on a rotational shift. The TAM will work closely with the 24x7 support team to ensure the total team can support a customer on a follow-the-sun model. The TAM provides select account premium support for those that purchase the TAM service, and the key value includes providing customers with a named support engineer who understands the customers team and network. TAM’s work customer problems, help optimize customer networks, provide training, and also work joint proactive projects.

As part of this role, you will also be responsible for maintaining services in a FedRAMP compliant environment, therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.

What You’ll Do

  • Support - Work break-fix issues with customers. Escalate to support team as required
  • Optimization - Optimize customer systems to ensure peak performance
  • Proactive Customer Engagement - Establish and ensure highly collaborative relationships with support teams and customers/partners. Build value-based relationships with customers, leading to referral and renewal. Leverage enterprise data analytics to transparently track and report on
  • customer engagement
  • Cross Functional Engagement - Establish and develop highly collaborative relationships with internal teams. Collaborating with Sales and Engineering to address product issues, and identify workarounds & solutions
  • Escalations - Assume the role of escalation manager when needed, and ensure timely communication to all stakeholders for escalated issues with a high-impact, or strategic visibility. Coordinate handoff of ongoing issues to the next geographical region
  • Customer Experience - Ensure a great customer experience in all team interactions. Measure and continually improve
  • Projects - Project manage many projects concurrently understanding current and future action items
  • Special projects as assigned

Qualifications

  • At least 3-5 years of support experience within a Technical Support, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, or Technical customer-facing organization
  • At least 3-5 years of working directly with customers, within a technology company
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent working experience
  • Expert understanding of network and application protocols (Cisco/Juniper certification strongly preferred - CCNA/DEVNET/JNCP, etc. )
  • Experience with Cloud/SaaS software products is highly desirable.
  • Strong understanding of ISP, CDN, and cloud service provider networks
  • Strong understanding of web technologies and VoIP applications
  • Hands on experience with hypervisors such as KVM, VMware, Hyper-V, and VirtualBox
  • Hands on experience with container administration tools such as docker and kubernetes
  • Knowledge of at least one computer language and programming framework desirable, JavaScript and Python are a plus
  • Working knowledge in security,  authentication, permissions, SSO
  • Experience in administering Linux based operating systems
  • Passionate about enabling a consistently excellent customer experience. Dedicated to champion the customer problem until the resolution path is identified
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Heavy focus on using data to articulate messages
  • The ability to work effectively in a remote or virtual team environment
  • Excellent presentation skills coupled with a strong leadership presence
  • Excellent time & project management skills, with a focus on delivery
  • Initiative and desire to learn new skills/technologies and remain up-to-date with the latest trends; real passion for problem-solving
  • Flexibility to handle critical cases after hours as needed

Cisco values the perspectives and skills that emerge from employees with diverse backgrounds. That's why Cisco is expanding the boundaries of discovering top talent by not only focusing on candidates with educational degrees and experience but also placing more emphasis on unlocking potential. We believe that everyone has something to offer and that diverse teams are better equipped to solve problems, innovate, and create a positive impact.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy. We urge you not to prematurely exclude yourself and to apply if you're interested in this work.

US – COMPENSATION RANGE – MESSAGE TO APPLICANTS

92,500 - 122,200 USD

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: 

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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About The Company

The name ThousandEyes was born from two big ideas: the power to see things not ordinarily possible and the ability to collect insights from a multitude of vantage points. As organizations rely more on cloud services and the Internet, the network has become a black box they can't understand. ThousandEyes gives organizations visibility into the now borderless network, arming them with an accurate understanding of how the network impacts their applications, users and customers. ThousandEyes is used by some of the world's largest and fastest growing brands, including all of the top 5 global software companies, 5 of the top 6 US banks, and 45 of the Fortune 500.

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