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Cisco

Makes networking gear and security software

Customer Success Technical Leader - Technical Account Manager

Implementation & Technical Account ManagementUpdated on Nov 14
Full-timeMinato City, Tokyo, JapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Fluent Japanese.
  • At least 5 years of experience designing, configuring, implementing, and administering security solutions or Splunk.
  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience with databases.
  • Ability to manage assigned tickets and area-aligned priorities, establish technical credibility with internal and customer contacts, adapt communication to different contacts, and engage in escalation management.
  • Ability to influence peers, Splunk leadership, and customers, and to manage complex or distributed IT environments and accounts requiring negotiation and conflict resolution.
  • Ability to understand account and customer business strategies, objectives, challenges, success criteria, and training needs, and analyze trends that may affect long-term business goals.
  • Ability to take on mentorship roles and lead priorities for improvement to help the team reach its goals.
  • Strong written and oral communication, active listening, and objective consideration of others' opinions.
  • Strong customer-facing skills to instill confidence and guide customers toward resolution.
  • Ability to balance multiple account teams, customers, and competing priorities effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Develop strong partnerships with Sales and Customer Success roles to support area-aligned customers in realizing value.
  • Deliver onboarding and enablement, including workshops, prescriptive guidance and assistance, and achievement of onboarding milestones.
  • Audit usage, indexes, data models, assets and identities, dashboards, correlation searches, notable events, and frameworks; remediate identified issues.
  • Plan and develop security use cases and detections or analytics, identify MITRE ATT&CK coverage gaps, integrate and normalize data, drive CIM compliance, and write custom SPL.
  • Activate product features and frameworks, including Risk-Based Alerting, threat intelligence, threat hunting, UBA/UEBA, and SOAR/automation.
  • Engage Customer Success Executives and Solution Architects proactively on security-related adoption and use-case opportunities.
  • Engage Technical Success Engineers proactively on security-product health opportunities.
  • Scope effort and develop a technical action plan to address technical situations based on assessments.
  • Engage area-aligned Customer Success and Solution Engineering management to align priorities and address at-risk accounts and area themes.
  • Provide strategic, case-based assistance for up to 90 days, delivering technical advice on enterprise architecture, implementation, configuration, and optimization in complex environments for Splunk Enterprise Security, UBA/UEBA, and/or SOAR.
  • Proactively identify and resolve organizations' complex technical challenges before they affect customers.
  • Guide account team members and customers on optimal use of Splunk Enterprise Security, UBA/UEBA, and/or SOAR, and recommend ways to improve customers' technical health.
  • Collaborate with internal resources and customer-facing teams to manage customer needs.
  • Research across resources to answer questions and solve complex technical problems.
  • Conduct consultative conversations with decision-makers to diagnose business issues and potential solution value, adjust or expand solution requirements based on discovery and assessment, and recommend ways to accelerate product initiatives, optimize cost, and maximize performance.
  • Gain agreement from account team members and customer decision-makers on the tangible value of proposed solutions.
  • Contribute to practice key performance indicators through process and collateral improvements, tool development, and implementation.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with security automation (SOAR) or behavioral analytics (UEBA).
  • Practical knowledge of common security frameworks such as NIST and CIS, or compliance standards.
  • Basic familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience in threat hunting, digital forensics, or Security Operations Center workflows.
  • Relevant security certifications or Splunk accreditations.

About the Company

Cisco

Makes networking gear and security software

Cisco makes the switches and routers that connect offices, data centers, and cloud services, and it also sells cybersecurity tools and Webex video meetings to businesses and governments. It was one of the first companies to sell routers that let different kinds of computer networks exchange data, and in 2000 it briefly became the world's most valuable company. Customers run its network gear, from Wi-Fi access points to AI data center systems, with Cisco software that sets up and secures the network, while its Splunk unit searches computer logs to catch outages and attacks. Cisco earns money from hardware sales, software subscriptions, and support contracts. It was founded in 1984 and is based in San Jose, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
1984

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