The Senior Manager, Customer Success Engineering leads a team of Customer Success Engineers responsible for driving measurable customer outcomes across Veeam Data Platform. This role balances strategic planning with hands-on execution leadership, ensuring customers realize value, improve resilience, expand adoption, and reduce renewal risk
This leader is accountable for building scalable customer success engineering practices across onboarding, adoption, technical success planning, resilience maturity, executive engagement, and renewal readiness. The Senior Manager serves as a coach, operational leader, customer escalation point, and cross-functional partner to Sales, Renewals, Product, Support, Professional Services, and Technical Account Management
The ideal candidate is a proven technical people leader with strong customer engagement skills, deep understanding of enterprise IT and data resilience, and the ability to translate customer business objectives into measurable technical outcomes
Lead, coach, and develop a team of Customer Success Engineers, which may include junior managers, to deliver consistent, high-quality customer outcomes
Set clear expectations, performance standards, and operating rhythms for onboarding, adoption, success planning, resilience assessments, executive reviews, and renewal risk mitigation
Drive scalable technical capability across the team, including expertise in Veeam Data Platform, disaster recovery and resilience, cloud platforms, virtualization, storage, operating systems, and automation
Establish and improve standards for customer success plans, adoption roadmaps, account scorecards, health checks, quarterly business reviews, resilience reporting, and executive communication
Ensure Customer Success Engineers translate customer business objectives into co-signed, measurable success plans with time-bound value milestones
Champion resilience as a customer outcome by standardizing the use of maturity assessments, recoverability validation, recovery simulations, health checks, and gap remediation planning
Monitor customer health, adoption, sentiment, renewal readiness, and expansion indicators across the team’s book of business
Act as a senior advisor and escalation point for strategic enterprise customers, especially when resilience posture, executive alignment, adoption risk, or renewal risk requires leadership intervention
Partner with Sales, Renewals, Technical Account Management, Support, Product, and Professional Services to align customer success engineering activities with account strategy, product roadmap feedback, and revenue priorities
Build repeatable plays, enablement, and best practices that improve time-to-first-value, adoption breadth and depth, retention, expansion readiness, and referenceability
Drive continuous improvement in team operations, including capacity planning, account coverage, scorecard hygiene, forecasting inputs, and operating efficiency
Contribute to business planning by identifying growth opportunities, influencing account strategy, supporting expansion motions, and aligning team performance with retention and revenue goals
Ensure the team remains focused on advisory, adoption, resilience, and value realization outcomes while routing break-fix issues, hands-on technical operations, commercial negotiations, and renewal quoting to the appropriate teams