Meet the Team:

The Customer Experience Customer Success Specialist at Splunk is a critical team member responsible for the technical health and success of our customers’ adoption journey. You will bring your deep product knowledge to advise customers on their platform health, providing guidance on Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud adoption and technical procedures to ensure customers remain successful and realize the full value of their investment in Splunk. As a Splunk Customer Experience Customer Success Specialist, you will support our customers on their adoption journey through proactive platform health assessment, advisory and management of customer issues.

Your Impacts:

• Act as point of contact for technical health issues and escalation management for enterprise customers.
• Deliver customer onboarding guidance, enablement planning, administration and management workshops.
• Provide guidance, planning and recommendations for the overall technical health of a customer's Splunk environment.
• Monitor the overall health of customer environments considering cases, critical issues, outages and ongoing projects, and conduct diagnostic health checks as needed.
• Advocate internally for customers to facilitate the resolution of customer issues through coordination of efforts among Splunk’s internal organizations (technical support, services, sales, product development, product management, and executive leadership teams).
• Proactively analyze customer issues and interactions to identify training and additional services needs, engage internal teams for delivery.
• Participate in sales QBRs with customers (on-site and virtually) to review service levels, usage metrics and customer environment performance.
• Work with the relevant technical teams to proactively handle customer critical issues and configurations and recommend customer environment upgrades and add-ons, ensuring upgrade readiness and new feature awareness.
• Assess all cloud overages and leverage services for workload optimization solutions.
• Proactively identify customer environment impacts related to bugs or new release build track scheduled maintenance windows, and communicate effectively between teams.
• Understand, document and communicate the customer’s needs to the Account Team.
• Keep the customer informed of key information that may be critical to their success (e.g. product roadmaps, new product releases, customer events, or organizational changes)

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree +8 years of related experience.
• Relevant work experience in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, or Professional Services, or other equivalent fields.
• +5 years of proven ability to manage high-complexity, multi-domain, and multi-site enterprise deployments in customer-facing role.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Ability to communicate effectively with individual contributors to senior leaders
• Work independently and as part of a team
• Experience with IT operations and technical infrastructure
• Travel up to 30% may be required

Preferred Qualifications

• Active expert-level Splunk certification (e.g., Architect or Admin) or equivalent technical certification or experience is highly desirable.
• Relevant industry domain knowledge and experience in cybersecurity, observability, data platform, or AI is beneficial.
• Expertise or proven track records in AI-analytics integration and advanced telemetry to de-risk and optimize customer environments.
• Demonstrated experience in leading cross-functional or global initiatives is a plus.

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

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