Service Account Manager

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Service Account Manager guiding customers through technical and operational needs for Avid systems. Collaborating with teams to enhance customer experience and ensuring successful service engagements.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the customer’s trusted technical point of contact, providing expert guidance on Avid systems, software, and workflows.
  • Act as a trusted advisor regarding the technical needs of the customer to ensure their solutions are aligned with their operational environment and business goals.
  • Provide proactive consultation on Avid products and solutions to avoid technical issues and loss of service, including new release versions, End of Life processes, Technical Alerts, and new product introduction.
  • Ensure a successful service engagement by educating the customer's maintenance team on Customer Support processes and best practices.
  • Advocate for the customer’s technical needs within Avid, particularly around support processes and escalations, bug fixes, and training needs.
  • Provide situation management for critical customer escalations by coordinating between internal and external teams, updating key stake holders, and ensuring issues are driven to resolution.
  • Assist with project hand-off from Professional Services to Customer Support.
  • Collaborate with Customer Support and Engineering to escalate and report design, reliability, maintenance, or software issues and track them to resolution.
  • Monitor open support case backlogs, ensuring timely and appropriate resolution of cases and escalations, and reporting back progress to the customer on a regular basis.
  • Host regular meetings (cadence TBD by customer) to review status and updates on ongoing technical and service-related issues.
  • Support the customer Account Team in pre- and post-sale engagements, including system audits, solution recommendations, and proof-of-concept activities.
  • Maintain strong customer relationships by proactively monitoring system health, providing guidance on solution best practices, and identifying opportunities to improve performance and reliability.

Requirements:

  • Experience in technical account management, customer support engineering, systems engineering, or similar technical customer-facing role.
  • Strong understanding of complex software systems, system architecture, and troubleshooting methodologies.
  • Knowledgeable on the process to diagnose and resolve sophisticated issues involving hardware, software, and workflow integration.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, with the ability to translate technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience working with media workflows, including (and preferably) with Avid solutions (e.g., MediaCentral | Cloud UX, Avid NEXIS).
  • Strong customer service orientation and the ability to build long-term client relationships.
  • Ability to work and communicate cross-functionally, ensuring tight alignment between members of a cross-organizational team.
  • Ability to de-escalate intense customer situations.

Benefits:

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities

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