Technical Success Manager Lead

The Technical Success Manager Lead will oversee and guide a team of Technical Success Managers while directly contributing to strategic customer engagements. This role will be pivotal in aligning customer needs with ABBYY’s solutions to maximize value realization. As a leader, you will ensure best practices in technical success and foster a culture of customer-centric innovation. 

Roles & Responsibilities 

Leadership & Team Management: 

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of Technical Success Managers, ensuring alignment with company goals and customer success objectives.
• Establish frameworks and processes for value discovery and delivery, ensuring consistency across customer engagements.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex customer challenges, collaborating with internal teams to resolve issues promptly.

Strategic Customer Engagement: 

• Conduct high-level value discovery sessions with strategic accounts, ensuring customer goals and business objectives are clearly defined and met.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with executive-level stakeholders in customer and partner organizations.
• Collaborate with account managers, pre-sales teams, and other technical leaders to deliver seamless customer experiences and drive adoption.

Process Improvement & Innovation: 

• Identify opportunities to streamline customer success processes and introduce scalable, repeatable frameworks for customer engagement.
• Advocate for customer needs within ABBYY, driving initiatives to enhance product capabilities and customer satisfaction.
• Develop and refine success metrics to measure team performance and customer outcomes.

Enablement & Advocacy: 

• Design and implement training programs for customers and partners to promote product adoption and success.
• Lead initiatives to gather, analyze, and act on customer feedback to improve products and services.
• Drive customer advocacy efforts, including case studies, references, and success stories.

Operational Excellence: 

• Monitor and manage team workloads, ensuring efficient delivery of customer success projects.
• Analyze customer usage patterns, adoption trends, and churn risks to guide proactive engagement strategies.
• Report regularly to senior leadership on team performance, customer health, and strategic insights.

Requirements 

Experience & Skills: 

• 7+ years in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Pre-Sales, Professional Services, Technical Account Management), with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity.
• Proven experience in SaaS environments, with a deep understanding of subscription-based business models.
• Expertise in technologies such as OCR/ICR, Intelligent Document Processing, Enterprise Automation, RPA, ECM, BPM, or Process Mining.

Leadership Qualities: 

• Strong track record of building and leading high-performing teams in customer success or related disciplines.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders, from technical teams to executives.
• Demonstrated ability to drive alignment across departments and manage competing priorities effectively.

Technical Acumen: 

• Strong ability to bridge the gap between technology and business, translating customer needs into actionable solutions.
• Experience with software implementation, technical troubleshooting, and delivering enterprise-scale solutions.
• Proficiency with analytics platforms and advanced skills in MS Office Suite or similar tools.

Soft Skills: 

• A proactive problem solver with a customer-first mindset and a strong sense of ownership.
• Excellent project management and prioritization skills, capable of overseeing multiple high-impact initiatives simultaneously.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with changing priorities.

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