About the Role
Leads the delivery and success of Technical Account Management (TAM) and Support Account Management (SAM) services for NetApp customers. This COGS-based role manages a team of TAMs and SAMs across their assigned AREA, accountable for consistent post-sales outcomes and serving as the single point of contact for the customer’s post-sales experience with NetApp.
Responsibilities
- Drives business development for NetApp’s Lifecycle Management Service offerings, expanding adoption and growth across the assigned portfolio.
- Leads, coaches, and develops a high-performing team of TAMs and SAMs, setting clear expectations and ensuring consistent delivery against commitments.
- Leads change implementation and ongoing change management by communicating the “why/what/how,” driving adoption, and measuring impact.
- Champions innovation and continuous improvement by standardising best practices, simplifying workflows, and increasing quality and efficiency at scale.
- Develops and executes strategic plans for business growth, aligning service motions to customer goals and NetApp priorities.
- Manages resources and capacity planning to ensure effective coverage, prioritisation, and timely execution of customer deliverables.
- Builds and maintains strong customer relationships, partnering with internal stakeholders to drive adoption, value realisation, and customer advocacy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Technical Support, Professional Services, or post-sales delivery in an enterprise technology environment.
- 5+ years of people management experience leading technical, customer-facing teams (e.g., TAM/SAM, support, services, or account delivery teams).
- Demonstrated ability to drive operational cadence and performance management using KPIs (e.g., retention, customer experience, adoption/health, escalations, productivity).
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Support, Services, and Product to deliver customer outcomes and resolve complex issues.
- Proven communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
- Experience working in multiple markets and collaborating across multiple time zones and diverse work cultures.
- Domain expertise in data infrastructure (storage, data management, cloud/hybrid architectures) and experience translating technical capabilities into customer value.
- Familiarity with customer success and service management tooling (e.g., Salesforce, Gainsight or similar CS platforms, ServiceNow) and dashboard-driven operations.
- Strong executive presence with experience leading QBRs/EBRs and influencing senior stakeholders through concise, decision-ready communication.
- Change leadership experience, including operating model transformation, process standardisation, and continuous improvement at scale.
- Demonstrated use of automation/AI and digital workflows to improve productivity, quality, and customer experience.
- Multilingual capability relevant to APAC markets is a plus.
Skills
- Strong operational discipline
- Technical breadth and curiosity across data infrastructure and support motions
- Ability to translate customer goals into clear success plans and repeatable TAM/SAM plays
- Process excellence and continuous improvement
- Effective resource and capacity management
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication
- Proven people leadership
- AREA regional leadership experience
- Change leadership
- Communication and emotional intelligence
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Technical Support, Professional Services, or post-sales delivery in an enterprise technology environment.
- 5+ years of people management experience leading technical, customer-facing teams
About the Company
- Leads the delivery and success of Technical Account Management (TAM) and Support Account Management (SAM) services for NetApp customers.
