Lead Professional Services Engineer - Customer Success

At NiCE, we don’t limit our challenges. We challenge our limits. Always. We’re ambitious. We’re game changers. And we play to win. We set the highest standards and execute beyond them. And if you’re like us, we can offer you the ultimate career opportunity that will light a fire within you.

So, what’s the role all about?

To support continued growth, our team is looking for a Lead Professional Services Engineer - Customer Success to partner with our Sales, Professional Services, Development, and other functional teams to design and build perfect customer journeys for our clients.

Proactive AI Agent is a cloud-hosted conversation platform, and part of NICE CXones suite of customer engagement software. Proactive and covering all digital channels, Proactive AI Agent leverages artificial intelligence, natural-language processing and machine-learning so that global brands can transform their customer journeys.

Proactive AI Agent disrupts traditional call centers, being just a fraction of the cost to deploy and run, but with three times the customer engagement rate of its manual call center predecessors. This means that as well as being lower cost, Proactive AI Agent can drive corporate KPIs harder and faster, as well as improve the customer experience.

How will you make an impact?

• Drive the strategic direction and long-term success strategy of our client accounts.
• Guide the team in supporting customers, partners, and end users by diagnosing complex technical and solution-related issues, managing escalations, and ensuring timely resolution aligned to customer impact and outcomes.
• Help build and influence a high-performance Customer Success and Professional Services team by guiding, developing, and mentoring talent aligned to customer outcomes; set clear goals, delegate effectively, and empower team members to make informed, timely decisions.
• Own executive-level relationship and lead QBRs/EBRs to influence business decisions and customer value realization.
• Identify and develop opportunities for growth within your accounts.
• Mentor more junior Customer Success Managers to help with their continued development.
• Delivering successful technical architecture (end-to-end) to meet our client’s business objectives.
• Become a trusted technical advisor to Client’s team building strong relationships.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the Proactive AI Agent product and help customers adopt the most relevant features and functionality.
• Understanding the client’s business, understand their key business drivers, and determine how Proactive AI Agent can most effectively deliver the dramatic business improvements.
• Working in close partnership with Proactive AI Agent sales leads and the configuration team.
• Drive forecasting, risk management, and renewal strategy across multiple high-value accounts.
• Champion operational excellence by defining CS processes, playbooks, and frameworks for scale.
• Represent Customer Success in cross-functional initiatives such as product roadmap discussions and customer advocacy programs
• Accountable for the end to end process from opportunity, validation and planning to delivery.
• Managing relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide technical, customer experience, security and delivery expertise and guidance.
• Working in a methodical and process-oriented way.
• Working with the Proactive AI Agent reporting and insights teams to monitor key account metrics and develop new and innovative ways to demonstrate Proactive AI Agent value.
• Confidently and clearly communicating the Proactive AI Agent value to clients.
• Strong partnerships through excellent client relationship management.
• Experienced in Agile or another methodology to illustrate end to end process.
• Ability to articulate technical information clearly to senior stakeholders.
• A curious and questioning approach. Asking why and looking for continuous improvement.
• Accountability and ownership.
• A commercially aware approach.
  
  

Have you got what it takes?

• Proven service or project delivery experience in an IT or SaaS environment.
• Extremely strong commercial awareness, including the creation of business cases.
• Experience managing large and complex projects end to end.
• Strong technical experience, including data analysis (you’ll be very used to using Excel to manipulate large data sets and prove your case).
• Proficiency in data-driven decision-making, including leveraging BI tools and customer health analytics to influence account strategy.
• Proven relationship management experience, with the ability to communicate, present and influence stakeholders and sponsors within management levels at blue chip organizations.
• Detailed knowledge of large corporations operating practices and mechanisms that will enable you to tailor stakeholder management and influence outcomes.
• Ability to manage multiple accounts and work streams concurrently without loss of quality or attention to detail.
• Able to operate highly effectively under intense time and business pressure.
• Experience leading or guiding teams.
• Experience defining and optimizing customer success frameworks, lifecycle plays, and operational processes.
• Experience managing customer risk, escalations, and expectations while balancing contractual commitments and success objectives.
• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-resolution skills in customer-facing scenarios.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a customer-centric, consultative approach.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously and perform effectively in a fast-paced, customer-driven environment.
• Multilingual would be a benefit.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

Join an ever-growing, market-disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment! As the market leader, every day at NICE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NICEr!

Reporting into: Manager / Team lead

Role Type: Individual Contributor

Requisition ID: 10701

About NiCE

NICE Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE) software products are used by 25,000+ global businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100 corporations, to deliver extraordinary customer experiences, fight financial crime and ensure public safety. Every day, NiCE software manages more than 120 million customer interactions and monitors 3+ billion financial transactions.

Known as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud and digital, NiCE is consistently recognized as the market leader in its domains, with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries.

NiCE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.

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