About the Role
The Customer Success Engagement Manager serves as the operational quarterback for customer deployment and field service engagements, coordinating installation, expansion, and break-fix activities. This role requires exceptional communication skills, strong operational discipline, and the ability to manage multiple high-priority engagements simultaneously in a fast-paced environment, understanding customer experience and technical risks during critical deployment windows.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate onsite installation and expansion deployments with customers, Sales Engineers, and deployment teams.
- Manage deployment scheduling, logistics, site readiness validation, and resource alignment.
- Act as the air traffic controller throughout deployment activities to ensure seamless, on-time execution and clear communication across all involved parties.
- Drive proactive communication with VAST resources regarding timelines, milestones, risks, and deployment status.
- Track deployment progress and completion milestones to help accelerate operational closeout and revenue recognition activities.
- Ensure engagement records, deployment completion details, and customer sign-offs are accurately documented and communicated internally.
- Partner cross-functionally with Customer Success, Services, Finance, and Sales Operations teams to maintain accurate deployment visibility.
- Work closely with Support Engineers and partners to coordinate onsite field engineer dispatches for hardware replacement and break-fix activities.
- Establish and monitor escalation workflows to make sure scheduling urgency, parts coordination, and customer communications happen smoothly during critical support situations.
- Help minimize customer downtime through rapid coordination and operational follow-through.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with authorized third-party service providers, installers, and field engineering partners.
- Maintain positive working relationships with the network of qualified installation and field service resources globally.
- Monitor partner responsiveness, performance, coverage, and service quality to ensure high customer satisfaction.
- Support onboarding and operational enablement of new service partners.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Services Operations, Deployment Coordination, Technical Account Management, or similar operational roles within enterprise technology and customer-facing business units.
- Experience in the data storage, infrastructure, networking, cloud, or enterprise hardware industry strongly preferred.
- Proven ability to coordinate complex customer engagements involving multiple technical stakeholders and external vendors.
- Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage competing priorities simultaneously.
- Effective and concise written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Sales, Support, Engineering, Finance, and external service providers.
- Ability to remain calm, responsive and highly effective during high-pressure customer situations and escalations.
- Familiarity with enterprise deployment processes, field service operations, and hardware lifecycle management is highly desirable.
- Experience using CRM, ticketing, and project management platforms such as Salesforce and Jira.
- Customer-first mindset with strong attention to detail.
- Highly proactive, resourceful, and operationally driven.
- Comfortable operating in a rapidly scaling, fast-paced environment.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Ability to influence and coordinate without direct authority.
Location
- London
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
About the Company
- At VAST Data, we are redefining the future of AI and data infrastructure. Our platform powers some of the world’s most demanding environments, enabling organizations to accelerate innovation through a unified, scalable data platform. As we continue to grow globally, we are seeking a highly organized, detail-obsessed, customer-focused, and operationally driven Customer Success Engagement Manager to join our Customer Success organization.
