IBM Technical Account Manager Advocate - Senior 

Costa Rica 

155814634

Your Role and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

Relationship Management:

• Build and nurture strong, collaborative relationships with multiple IBM teams.
• Foster relationships with customer operations teams who are actively using IBM Cloud.
• Perform regular account reviews with IBM teams or customers, leveraging data analysis and AI capabilities to uncover both indicators of success and areas for improvement. For example, support ticket trends, service levels, metrics and customer environment performance.

Technical Support Expertise:

• Develop an understanding of your customer’s technical environments, challenges, and goals.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to cloud services, working closely with internal IBM Cloud teams and others, as necessary.
• Provide technical guidance and support, leveraging your expertise in IBM’s products and services.
• Maintain accurate documentation of customer environments, issues and solutions provided.

Issue Resolution:

• Proactively identify and address technical issues speedily, working closely with internal and external teams (Technical Support, Network Operations, Systems Engineering, Product Development, Product Management, other IBM teams, IBM Cloud Vendors) to provide timely and effective solutions.

• Serve as an escalation point for critical technical challenges, facilitating swift resolution through the collaboration of subject matter experts from diverse teams, as necessary.
• During issue resolution,
  • gather relevant information from the customer
  • keep the customer informed of key IBM information

Communication & Facilitation:

• Clearly communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences, including Sales & Executive Leadership.
• Co-ordinate and facilitate across various functional teams to support fast issue resolution and outcomes.
• Prepare and present updates to IBM teams on during and after issue resolution and escalations.
• Provide Executive level progress updates and reports on key customer issues and escalations.

Account Growth:

• Identify opportunities to assist customers to leverage additional IBM Cloud services to proactively prevent issues reoccurring and/or future issues arising.