Striim, Inc. - VP of Strategic Customer Engagement
Requirements
• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience within enterprise software, cloud, data infrastructure, SaaS, or data modernization environments. • Proven success leading Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Strategic Services, Solutions Architecture, Professional Services, or related customer-facing technical organizations. • Demonstrated track record of driving enterprise customer retention, expansion, adoption, and upsell growth. • Strong experience within data modernization ecosystems, including cloud adoption and migration, real-time data streaming, analytics, observability, AI enablement, or related enterprise data technologies. • Experience working with highly technical enterprise customers across complex and/or regulated environments. • Experience leading complex enterprise escalations, operational recovery initiatives, strategic customer stabilization efforts, or cross-functional technical intervention programs. • Strong understanding of enterprise deployment models, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, real-time data architectures, operational support models, and production incident management. • Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional execution across Engineering, Product, Support, Architecture, and GTM organizations during high-pressure customer situations. • Ability to engage credibly in technical discussions involving enterprise architecture, scalability, platform stability, cloud operations, database technologies, and production deployment challenges. • Ability to operate strategically and tactically in a high-growth startup environment. • Experience building, scaling, or transforming customer-facing technical teams. • Demonstrated ability to lead effectively in high-growth, fast-paced, and evolving environments with competing priorities and multiple stakeholder perspectives. • Strong emotional intelligence, executive presence, and interpersonal judgment with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build credibility across all levels of an organization. • Proven ability to balance urgency, accountability, and operational rigor with a highly collaborative and team-oriented leadership style. • Hands-on, proactive leadership approach with a willingness to engage directly in solving customer and operational challenges when needed. • Ability to navigate complex organizational dynamics with professionalism, adaptability, and a solutions-oriented mindset. • Strong executive presence with exceptional written and verbal communication skills. • Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders. • Commercial mindset with comfort operating against revenue-oriented metrics and customer growth objectives. • Strong cross-functional leadership skills with experience partnering across Sales, Product, Engineering, Alliances, and Executive Leadership teams. • Comfortable operating in environments with lean internal infrastructure and non-traditional marketing support models. • Strong technical depth with the ability to engage credibly in enterprise architecture discussions, production escalation management, operational risk analysis, cloud infrastructure strategy, and complex deployment troubleshooting. • Experience working within fast-paced, less structured startup cultures with high visibility and accountability. • Willingness and enthusiasm for extensive travel, including international travel. • Experience with real-time data streaming technologies, CDC frameworks, cloud-native data architectures, observability platforms, or AI-driven enterprise solutions. • Experience working within highly cross-functional escalation environments involving Product Engineering, Support Engineering, Professional Services, and enterprise customer operations teams. • Experience supporting partner-led or alliance-driven GTM motions. • Background in enterprise platform adoption within Fortune 1000 or highly regulated industries. • Prior experience building or leading strategic escalation, customer advocacy, or executive engagement programs. • Familiarity with consumption-based growth models, enterprise platform expansion strategies, and complex multi-stakeholder sales cycles. • Experience supporting beta programs, customer advisory initiatives, or product feedback programs. • What Success Looks Like • Increased enterprise customer retention and expansion performance. • Stronger executive-level customer relationships and engagement. • Successful launch and operationalization of a scalable Tiger Team escalation and stabilization model with measurable impact on strategic customer outcomes. • Improved execution speed, coordination efficiency, and resolution outcomes during strategic customer escalations and critical deployment situations. • Improved customer adoption, advocacy, and platform utilization. • Enhanced alignment between customer feedback, product strategy, and GTM execution. • Measurable contribution to company growth through customer expansion and strategic account development. • Establishment of scalable customer engagement frameworks that support long-term company growth.
Responsibilities
• Lead, scale, and optimize the Technical Account Management organization focused on customer retention, adoption, expansion, renewal, and upsell across enterprise accounts • Build and lead the company’s new Tiger Team organization, including engagement criteria, escalation workflows, operational processes, cross-functional execution models, staffing strategy, and customer stabilization frameworks • Develop executive-level engagement and escalation strategies that improve customer outcomes, operational execution, and strategic account stability. • Lead coordinated execution during high-priority customer escalations, production recovery efforts, strategic deployment risks, and cross-functional operational incidents. • Establish clear operational boundaries, engagement models, and collaboration protocols between TAM, Support, Product Engineering, Field Engineering, and Tiger Team functions. • Partner closely with Sales leadership to identify expansion opportunities, support strategic account planning, and contribute to revenue growth initiatives • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Solutions teams to ensure customer feedback, adoption challenges, and product enhancement opportunities are effectively communicated and prioritized • Support beta programs, strategic product rollouts, and customer enablement initiatives for key accounts when appropriate • Establish scalable customer engagement frameworks, success metrics, operational KPIs, and executive reporting structures • Drive accountability across customer health metrics, retention performance, expansion targets, adoption benchmarks, and customer satisfaction outcomes • Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, technical leaders, and business decision-makers across enterprise customer environments • Foster a high-accountability, highly collaborative team culture centered around customer outcomes, operational excellence, and cross-functional partnership • Lead with a balanced approach of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, helping teams navigate ambiguity, shifting priorities, and complex enterprise customer environments • Build trust and alignment across multiple internal stakeholders and executive teams while maintaining strong momentum and focus on execution • Operate effectively within a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment with evolving priorities and limited traditional structure • Serve as a visible executive leader internally and externally, representing the company with customers, partners, and industry stakeholders • Partner with Alliances and Partner organizations to support joint customer success initiatives and strategic ecosystem growth opportunities • Travel extensively to customer sites, partner engagements, executive meetings, conferences, and internal leadership sessions
Benefits
• This is an opportunity to build and shape a highly visible executive function within a rapidly growing technology company solving some of the most complex enterprise data challenges in the market today. • Competitive salary and pre-IPO stock options • Comprehensive health care plans (medical, dental, vision), including medical and dependent FSA • Retirement plan (401K) • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) • Opportunity to contribute to and shape a collaborative, high-growth company culture • Base: $280,000 – $300,000 USD annually. • In addition to base pay, this role offers the opportunity to earn commission-based rewards • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. • Our company culture fosters entrepreneurship and nurtures our team members to grow with the company. Come join a Silicon Valley startup focused on delivering a product that’s loved by its customers and primed to be a core part of the cloud data stack.
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