Director of Client Engagement

Viam Viam · Robotics · New York, NY · Product & Education

Director of Client Engagement role at Viam, a robotics engineering platform company. This role focuses on post-sale customer outcomes, managing a team, building customer relationships, and acting as the voice of the customer back into Product and Engineering. It requires strong leadership in a B2B technical product environment, with accountability for retention and expansion.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and run the end-to-end client engagement function for Viam's platform customers. You'll set and maintain a high bar for technical expertise and delivery excellence for your team and drive customer retention and expansion.
  2. Manage and develop a small team. Set the bar for what excellent client engagement looks like at Viam, and coach the team to meet it.
  3. Build strong customer relationships across the portfolio. Surface risks early, before they show up as customer complaints.
  4. Be the voice of the customer back into Product and Engineering. You do not own the product roadmap, but you own the feedback loop that shapes it.
  5. Partner with Sales on expansion. When a customer is ready to grow, you and the AE define the path together; you are accountable for the technical and delivery side of that path landing well.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years leading post-sale client engagement or forward-deployed function
  • 3+ years management experience
  • Experience managing Forward Deployed Engineers, Solutions Engineers, Professional Services, or Customer Engineering
  • Comfortable in technical environments
  • Accountability for retention and expansion
  • Experience operating across multiple industries and customer profiles

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years leading a post-sale, client engagement, or forward-deployed function at a B2B technical product company, with at least 3 years in a management role.
  • Accountability for both retention and expansion across a portfolio of strategic accounts.