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Service Account Manager

Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 1987H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California + 1 moreAll locations: California, New York

Posted

34 days ago

Salary

$80K - $105K / year

Bachelor Degree1 yr expEnglishCloud

Job Description

• 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.

Job 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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