About the Role
Neara is seeking a Customer Value Architect to work closely with high-value customers, driving platform adoption, value definition, and validation. This role requires technical curiosity, customer engagement skills, and the ability to translate Neara solutions into quantifiable ROI.
Responsibilities
- Develop strong understanding and proficiency with the Neara software platform to translate its functionality and value to customers.
- Work directly and closely with customers, including on-site, to drive and embed platform use.
- Ensure Neara solutions are delivered as contractually scoped and achieve identified business outcomes.
- Develop a deep understanding of customer strategic imperatives and business goals to provide guidance on Neara solution enablement.
- Serve as a trusted commercial and technical advisor to customers, ensuring full embedding of Neara solutions.
- Collaborate with customers to define and deliver business cases and ROI metrics.
- Identify opportunities for customers to expand their use and adoption of the Neara platform.
- Engage a broad stakeholder audience within customers to build trusted relationships.
- Collaborate with Neara Sales and Deployment teams to drive customer happiness, platform adoption, and growth.
- Design and deliver focused training sessions and workshops aligned with customer goals.
- Identify emerging client needs and strategic opportunities to inform customer account strategies.
Requirements
- Significant experience with enterprise account engagement, strategy, and client management, ideally within a large consulting organization.
- Familiarity with enterprise software platforms and deployments.
- Experience in developing tangible customer value and ROI frameworks that map to client strategic and business priorities.
- Strong communication skills; ability to explain complex topics clearly.
- Strong critical thinking capabilities; ability to translate customer outcomes to technical solutions.
- Strong external stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to build trusted relationships.
- A proactive problem-solver who enjoys finding creative solutions.
- Experience within infrastructure, and specifically the energy sector, is a plus but not essential.
- An engineering degree is a plus but not essential.
- Ability to work on-site in Houston and/or Dallas during the week.
- Regular in-person collaboration with customers.
- Current and unrestricted working rights.
- No visa sponsorship available.
Skills
- Technical curiosity
- Customer engagement
- Customer navigation
- Translating solutions into quantifiable ROI
- Enterprise account engagement
- Enterprise account strategy
- Client management
- Enterprise software platforms
- Enterprise software deployments
- Customer value frameworks
- ROI frameworks
- Communication
- Critical thinking
- Stakeholder engagement
- Problem-solving
- Creative solutions
Location
- Houston
- Dallas
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Significant experience with enterprise account engagement, strategy and client management
Education Level
- Engineering degree is a plus but not essential
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + ESOP
Benefits
- Significant career development and growth opportunities
- Highly meritocratic, non-bureaucratic, and low ego work culture
- Opportunity to work on complex, meaningful products and real world problems
- Opportunity to play a direct, critical role in the trajectory of a high growth company
About the Company
- Neara uses advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics-enabled digital twins of electricity grids.
- Neara's software platform builds sophisticated, engineering-grade 3D digital models of critical infrastructure.
- Neara is a high-growth technology company backed by leading venture capital and private equity investors.
- Neara's platform is adopted by infrastructure owners and operators globally.
- Neara's platform delivers solutions across the entire asset life cycle.
- Neara was recognized as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies of 2024.
- Neara’s vision is to change how the world designs, builds and operates critical infrastructure.
- Neara’s primary growth focus is the Americas, UK and Europe.
Equal Opportunity
- Neara values diversity, belonging and equal employment opportunities.
- Encourages individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
