Technical Customer Success Manager II

Sumo Logic Sumo Logic · Enterprise · Costa Rica · Customer Success

This role is for a Technical Account Manager at Sumo Logic, a company providing a Cloud SIEM platform that uses advanced analytics and machine learning for security visibility and threat detection. The TAM will act as a trusted advisor to customers, helping them maximize the platform's value, drive ROI, and understand technical nuances. Responsibilities include advanced training, strategic adoption planning, risk mitigation, growth strategy development, proactive monitoring, and executive engagement. The role requires extensive SaaS experience, customer-centricity, strong relationship management, and communication skills. Desired qualifications include experience with monitoring platforms, cloud services, query languages, and security/operations backgrounds.

What you'd actually do

  1. Advanced Technical Expertise: Hands-on keyboard experience and consultative skills.
  2. Strategic Adoption Drive: Facilitate training on advanced features and practices, aligning with the customer's specific usage of Sumo Logic.
  3. Customized Success Planning: Work closely with customers to understand their unique requirements and challenges, ensuring alignment with their expected business outcomes through a hands-on, consultative approach to build their adoption plan, then help them to achieve it and track progress. You’ll keep an eye out for additional opportunities and work to expand the plan as they progress to maximize the value they get from SUMO Logic.
  4. Risk Mitigation and Planning: Ability to identify financial and adoption risks within an account and pull the team together to create a thorough plan to turn risky situations into an advocacy scenario.
  5. Growth Strategy Development: Collaborate with the account team to formulate and implement strategies that balance customer needs with Sumo Logic’s business growth.

Skills

Required

  • Extensive SaaS Experience
  • Proven track record in a technical role managing multiple customer accounts
  • Customer-Centric Approach
  • Relationship Management
  • Communication Excellence
  • Ambiguity Navigation
  • Account Management Prowess
  • Familiar with Cyber Security frameworks and their applications in the secure DevOps Lifecycle
  • Curiosity to learn about the customer base and curiosity to continue learning

Nice to have

  • Monitoring Platform Experience: Proficiency in Sumo Logic or similar platforms (e.g., Splunk, Data Dog, Elastic, New Relic, Appdynamics, VMWare Tanzu).
  • Cloud Services Knowledge: Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud services.
  • Query Language Proficiency: SQL or similar query language skills.
  • Security and Operations Background: Experience in monitoring and alerting in security, operations, or SecDevOps settings.
  • Advanced Technologies: Kubernetes expertise (including HELM) and data analytics knowledge are highly advantageous.
  • OSS skills in Otel, Prometheus, and Falco are a plus
  • Sumo Logic experience is a big plus but not required
  • 5-10 Years experience

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced analytics and machine learning
  • customer ROI
  • advanced training
  • complex problem-solving
  • enable technology adoption
  • security and operational challenges
  • agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics