Customer Solutions Engineering Leader @ Plume

Life at Plume

At Plume, we believe that technology isn’t about moving faster, it’s about making life’s moments better. Which is why we’ve built the world’s first, and only, open and hardware-independent service delivery platform for smart homes, small businesses, enterprises, and beyond. Our SaaS platform uses WiFi, advanced AI, and machine learning to create the future of connected spaces—and human experiences—at massive scale.

We now deliver services to over 50 million locations globally and have managed over 2.5 billion devices on our platform. We’re expanding rapidly, pioneering a new category, and we achieved our Series F funding in just four years. Our customers include many of the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs) who look to Plume to help them evolve their smart home offerings while gleaning insights from their own data.

With a bias for action and a love for being trailblazers, the team at Plume embodies a combination of relentless curiosity and imaginative innovation. We challenge ourselves to think in ways that other companies don’t, work to do what should be done (rather than what can), and if we can’t do it exceptionally well, we don’t do it. It’s how we’ve assembled a team of world-class builders, thinkers, and doers. And it’s how we’re reinventing what’s possible every day.

Opportunity

This is a technical sales leadership role, leading a team of Plume Customer Solution Engineers whom work hand-in-hand with the product, sales and customer to position, sell and implement Plume’s cloud based services across a wide scale network. This job requires close coordination with the sales team to find innovative ways to solve customer pain points and smoothly enable adoption of the Plume services platform for many customers around the world. As a player/coach this person will be responsible for developing and maintaining expertise on industry trends as well as customer businesses and processes as it relates to Plume’s platform and services.

Plume provides opportunities for technical sales engineers to be involved in the entire full technology stack, including modification of low level driver code, massive big data processing and analytics, and a beautiful end customer mobile app experience. Most of our transactions with customers focus on cloud based service deployments and a delightful end-customer experience through our mobile app.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with Communication Service Providers (CSPs), Enterprise customers, and internal team members ensuring good understanding of Plume solutions and capabilities (current and future).
Provide both strategic and day-to-day technical expertise and support team members, strategic accounts, and escalations.
Act as subject matter expert and technical liaison between Plume technical teams and other vendors of Customers such as ODM’s, SOC vendors, and OSS/BSS API vendors to determine solution requirements
Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide sales support
Secure and renew orders and arrange deployment and delivery
Drive diagnosis, troubleshooting and thorough testing of escalated high impact production issues that are not easily reproducible.
Recommend improved process or services to customers, showing how changes will tie to business metrics such as ARPU, Churn, operational savings, etc
Coordinate the definition of requirements for new features, design, development and deployment with internal Product Management and Engineering teams in pursuit of new revenue aligned with customer’s needs
Research and stay up to date on the most recent industry standards and trends, emerging technology in network and server engineering, and have fundamental understanding of the principles of networking and cloud architectures
Lead cross-functional customer experience review sessions with Product and Engineering to support development of innovative solutions. Communicate clear and actionable recommendations towards product improvement (including bug fixes and new features) during these sessions, and manage prioritization of these requests.
Hire, develop, and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing Customer Solution Engineering team within an assigned region/market
Assist Customer Solution Engineers in their career growth plans through enablement and development plan creation

Qualifications:

Education Requirements: BS in Computer or Electrical Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent with 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
7+ years of experience in a Sales Engineering role focused on SAAS products
3+ years of experience leading teams with a track record of developing and maintaining communications in a cooperative and professional manner with all levels of staff and customers
A demonstrated understanding of the key technology components that make up Cloud such as microservice, CI/CD, virtualization, and system architecture.
A good understanding of Networking (wireless and wired), workloads/applications, and API’s
Proficient verbal and written technical communication in English.
Proficient usage of collaboration tools like Salesforce, Jira, & Confluence.
Ability to travel >70% of the time

About Plume

As the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for CSPs and their subscribers, Plume partners with over 350 CSP customers, including some of the world’s largest such as Comcast, Charter, Liberty Global, and J:COM.

Using OpenSync, the most widely supported open-source, silicon-to-cloud framework for smart spaces, Plume’s software-defined network allows CSPs to decouple their service offerings from hardware and rapidly curate and deliver new services over a multi-vendor, open-platform architecture.

Backed by investors such as Insight Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Plume is now valued at $2.6B, having added over $500M in funding in 2021 alone.

Plume is an equal opportunity workplace that maintains a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in all employment practices and decisions, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related individual conditions, medical conditions (as defined by state law), military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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