Associate Customer Success Manager - Cloud

Introduction

Apptio, an IBM company, is the leading technology spend and value management software provider. Its AI-powered data insights empower leaders to make smarter financial and operational decisions. A pioneer and category leader in Technology Business Management (TBM) and FinOps, Apptio works with thousands of customers, partners, and community members worldwide. By joining this team, you will play a critical role in enabling the customers to get maximum value from the cloud investment.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Support a set of accounts and help with product adoption, renewal and expansion
• Understand Customer’s use cases with respect to FinOps and ensure that those asks are implemented by working closely with Product Managers, Engineering and Support teams.
• Support backend activities such as Business review report preparation, configurations and maintenance of Enterprise
• Discount Program (EDP), process related to GCP Marketplace spend etc.
  
  
  

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong understanding of Cloud Computing concepts and hands on experience in AWS / Azure / GCP / OCI
• Knowledge of the SaaS industry and software products
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Ability to effectively present information (oral and written) and respond to customer questions in one-on-one and group settings
• Ability to prioritize and multitask in a fast-paced environment
• 1-3 years of industry experience
• At least a 3-year college degree in an associated field.
  
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• Customer Success experience and proactive engagement with Customers
• Experience in Cloud Cost Optimization
• Experience with CRM software and other customer success tools
  
  
  

About Business Unit

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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