customer support
Posted May 2, 2025Enterprise Customer Success Manager
at Canonical
On-site
Responsibilities
- Elaborate and coordinate complex projects in interaction with developers, IT managers and decision makers from various industries.
- Collaborate with Sales, Field Engineering and Support in developing and delivering engagement plans that fulfill the customer's objectives.
- Manage a portfolio of customers in a specific geographic region and identify growth opportunities or renewal risks in coordination with Sales. •
- Create campaigns targeting multiple customers through digital touch-points and activities.
Requirements
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT.
- Onboard new customers and introduce them to our products and support processes. Products include: Ubuntu Pro, MAAS, Landscape, Openstack, Ceph, Kubernetes, data applications and many more.
- Experience running a disciplined, weekly customer and business review process with cross-functional teams, identifying and prioritizing blockers, and driving resolution through corporate product and engineering teams
- experience with a strong relation to IT and with exposure to projects related to at least one of these topics: Linux OS, data applications, storage, cloud computing, networking, security, migration, IoT.
- Excellent presentation skills with the ability to guide a conversation about complex software. •
- Knowledge of agile methodologies.
- We at the Customer Success team strongly appreciate various languages! Therefore, if you possess proficiency (both written and spoken) in Spanish and Portuguese alongside an excellent command of English, please inform us!
- Experience with Salesforce, Jira and CRMs is a big plus!
- As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.
Benefits
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
- We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance.
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
- Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
- Customer success is a new and strategic department at Canonical, with the objective of reducing risk and churn, facilitating the adoption of new products or services, and supporting expansion within existing accounts.
- Customer Success Managers (CSM) are responsible for developing trust with their assigned customers and providing them with the best possible
- By clearly understanding their customers’ objectives, the CSM can align expectations, suggest a large range of additional services or product capacity to increase loyalty, alleviate any pain points, and help draw and deliver on an appropriate collaboration roadmap.
- We are growing our Customer Success team to continue to offer thoughtful, smart, precise interactions across our product portfolio, from Ubuntu to open-source infrastructure and applications.
- To provide the appropriate level of focus for every customer, CSMs are specialized in one of the following segments: