Senior Customer Success Manager (Canberra)

Overview This position is home-based and requires candidates to be located in Canberra, ACT or within commutable distance. Regular on‑site presence at customer locations across the Canberra region is expected as part of this role. The Senior Customer Success Manager is critical to helping customers receive value from their investment in Tanium and to ensure Tanium maintains its enviable base of high value, loyal customers that rely on Tanium to manage all their endpoints. Operating in a collaborative team environment, CSMs contribute to each customer’s success by leveraging best practices and expertise to ensure adoption of the Tanium platform, leading to renewal and upsell opportunities for their assigned accounts. This customer‑facing role will be predominantly responsible for government customers each having thousands of endpoints running the Tanium platform and solutions. The successful candidate will be able to manage a significant set of customers and use data and qualitative feedback to decide how best to engage resources to drive desired results. Responsibilities
- Drive and communicate value for our federal, state and local government customers by aligning Tanium capabilities to desired customer outcomes
- Contribute to world‑class retention and expansion by partnering with teammates across functional areas to create paths to full platform adoption, identify areas to expand usage or capabilities, and identify potential risks to customer renewals
- Build and maintain executive and administrative customer relationships within the customer’s organisations, ensuring Tanium aligns to their mission, compliance requirements, cybersecurity mandates, and operational priorities
- Apply your experience with large, decentralized organizations and hybrid environments to strategically guide implementation, adoption, and utilization across multiple departments in the customer’s environment
- Solidify Tanium as a system of record for various functional IT disciplines within customer environments through established trust of data, time to value, increased ROI, and business outcome achievements
- Facilitate the planning, coordination, development, and execution of Executive Business Reviews aimed at defining customer business objectives, aligning to strategic initiatives, communicating Tanium value, and developing long‑term Customer Success Plans
- Collaborate across functional areas within Tanium, including Global Support, Escalation, Product, and Engineering teams, to drive the development of Tanium solutions based on customer needs
- Leverage your own technical domain expertise and internal technical resources, including engineering and product, support centre, knowledge bases, and other internal tools, to provide the most effective solutions to customer issues
- Advocate for the customer by sharing their feedback and use cases with product and engineering, support centre, and the rest of the account team
- Ensure customer success, leading to world‑class retention and expansion, through proactive periodic health checks (and, if necessary, formal improvement plans), product training, and developing and sharing technical best practices
- Understand the unique complexity of the customers and segmentation of customers you serve, and create the best path to full Tanium platform adoption and expansion, leveraging your understanding of not only the customer’s workplace but also insights as to how to overcome obstacles to implement new technologies and integrations
- Contribute to strategic customer plans for the months and years ahead, while executing your assigned strategies and tactics in coordination with other members of the account team to increase ROI and expand into new solution areas
- Perform activities and data management that help drive adoption and value against an agreed‑upon plan with the customer. This may include artifact creation (including Value Plans for customers), action and risk tracking, enhancement tracking, and updating internal data systems such as Salesforce and/or Gainsight Qualifications Security Clearance:
- NV1 or higher Education:
- BA/BS or equivalent experience preferred Experience Required:
- More than 6 years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Renewals, or Service Management / Professional Services, preferably in technology company business model
- Experience working with Australian Federal Government agencies and personnel
- Consulting and project management skills, experience with building strategic relationships that drive business value for customers
- Working knowledge of endpoint technology and the areas of major business outcomes for a CIO
- Tanium Certified Operator (nice to have)
- Technical background (nice to have) You are:
- A highly organized self‑starter who thrives in a fast‑paced setting and is comfortable working in ambiguity
- Curious, willing to learn from others in your discipline, your customers, and other roles at Tanium
- Willing to contribute suggestions and ideas to further customer and Tanium goals
- Eager to become an expert in demonstrating value and return on investment to our customers
- Eager to learn technology foundations and become a technical advisor on the Tanium platform and solutions.
- A strong communicator and intuitive listener
- Professional, insightful, and values‑driven
- Motivated to help solve the toughest IT problems faced by organisations today Other:
- Travel ranging from 40-50% within regional territory
- On‑site / customer‑located work as deemed necessary by the customer and/or account team, particularly in Canberra, ACT. Additional Information The role requires regular on‑site presence and may involve travel of 40‑50% within the regional territory. Candidates should be able to manage a significant set of government customers and drive adoption of Tanium solutions across multiple departments. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rs775