Customer Success Manager

Who are we?

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You'll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You'll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you-because when you feel valued, you're empowered to do your best work.

An exciting opportunity to join our Customer Success Team at Equinix in our London (or Slough) office, where you can provide best in class support through ensuring customer loyalty of global customers through self-directed engagement with executive level customer management. This role will typically manage the most complex global account(s) independently and act as a senior point of contact for others in the team.

This role uses wide‑ranged advanced experience to resolve complex issues, and ensure expert care‑taking of our external customers as well as proactively seeking to understand and assist shaping their future needs and opportunities.

If you have strong communication skills, consider yourself agile and curiously minded, collaborative and focused on customer excellence, then APPLY to join!

• Manages customer onboarding and support for more complex customers
• Uses judgment to determine the best method of interacting with customers during onboarding based on customers needs and project scope
• projects/implementations and may lead others

Uses the 3 Phase Methodology for onboarding:

• Phase 1 - Conducts pre‑onboarding for all customers
• Phase 2 - Kick‑off Onboarding:
  Sets up, facilitates and conducts kick‑off meetings for all customers
• Phase 3 - Continuous Follow‑up:
  Proactively designs a regular cadence with customers to understand how the customer is doing

Leads onboarding across multiple regions and in partnership with other CSMs

All Phases:

• Communicates effectively, able to translate internal processes to be able to set customer expectations within an advanced scope. Communicates with advanced skills in a way that allows the CSM to influence the customer and others
• Able to communicate with customers what other teams at Equinix do and how customers should utilize them

General:

• Interacts with cross functional teams using advanced wide‑ranged skills, adding input to the various stages
• Collects in depth information about all customer globally, so the experience is personalized. Based on data collection, able to understand where customer is heading strategically
• Is an expert in Equinix's processes, policies and escalation paths. Understands the nuances between regional processes
• Post onboarding, follows up on actions and tasks and connects back to the customer's goals. Able to articulate trending across customers and projects
• Able to utilize inquiry (questioning) skills with the customer in order to better understand their business, and able to know the best timing and method for asking questions. Able to generate questions for customers in the moment without requiring any pre‑planning

• Develop, maintain and track progress of a Customer Success Plan, for all Customers. For the customers that are global, is an expert at tracking a single plan across multiple regions
• Drives product and process adoption by understanding global customer usage and trends for all customers
• Able to articulate Equinix's products (current and future) to apply broad knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures. Understands regional product differences
• Collects and manages global customer feedback, develops a proposed solution to relevant teams to improve the customer experience
• Proactively identifies feedback trends across customers and drives process improvements
• Proactively reviews global product utilization and promotes solutions

General:

• Partners with the global account team for all presales discussions to assist and develop…