Senior Director, Strategic Account Management
Austin, TX Customer Success
Job Type
Full-time
Description

Location: Indianapolis, IN // Austin, TX

Job Type: Full-time, hybrid

Department: Customer Success


Who we are:

Scale Computing is a global leader in edge computing, hyperconverged infrastructure, and managed networking solutions. We deliver innovative, secure, and scalable technology that powers critical operations worldwide.


Who we're looking for:

The Senior Director of Strategic Account Management is our business and technical leader responsible for serving as a trusted advisor to Scale Computing’s largest and most complex enterprise customers. This role combines deep technical expertise across managed security services, hyperconverged infrastructure, and edge computing, with strong executive presence and acumen. The ideal candidate will lead high-touch customer engagement, translate business objectives into technical strategy, and partner cross-functionally to drive customer outcomes, retention, and long-term growth across distributed, enterprise-scale environments. This leader oversees the Strategic Account Management team of Technical Account and Customer Success members who provide guidance, resource management, and technical leadership to our customers ensuring exceptional post-sales experiences in every interaction. This position reports to the VP of Operations, is hybrid and requires on-site presence at one of our North America office locations multiple days per week, as well as regular travel throughout the year for customer meetings.


This position is hybrid and requires on-site presence multiple days per week in either our Austin, TX or Indianapolis, IN office.  


Requirements & Attributes

Core Leadership & Business Acumen

  • Proven senior leader owning a team managing complex enterprise customer relationships, driving retention, expansion, and executive-level alignment across large, distributed accounts.
  • Ability to serve as a strategic partner to CIOs, CTOs, and infrastructure leaders by translating business objectives into clear technical strategies and measurable outcomes.
  • Strong financial and operational acumen, including experience with renewals, expansion opportunities, consumption-based models, and services margin management.
  • Build and scale a Strategic Account Management framework across all platforms, encompassing lifecycle planning, role definition, success metrics, hiring strategy, and team training to support Services growth.
  • Establish customer health, risk, and governance models to proactively identify issues, guide executive engagement, and drive predictable outcomes across the customer portfolio.

Technical Depth & Credibility

  • Deep hands-on knowledge of hyperconverged infrastructure, virtualization, networking, and storage, with the ability to articulate architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and roadmap implications.
  • Working expertise in edge computing, distributed systems, and managed services (including firewalls and security), particularly within large, multi-site enterprise environments.
  • Ability to engage credibly with customer architects and engineers while confidently leading strategic technical discussions with executive stakeholders.

Customer Advocacy & Strategy

  • Experience leading high-touch Technical Account Management, Customer Success, or similar post-sales functions for enterprise customers with complex, distributed footprints.
  • Track record of driving customer outcomes through adoption planning, lifecycle management, proactive risk identification, and structured escalation management.
  • Influence Product, Engineering, and Services roadmaps by representing enterprise customer needs, usage patterns, and market trends.

Cross-Functional Influence

  • Exceptional collaboration across Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Support, and Services to deliver a cohesive, high-quality customer experience.
  • Proven ability to lead executive-level customer relationships, complex escalations, and difficult conversations with clarity, confidence, and sound judgment.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and fast-changing environments while balancing competing internal and external priorities.
  • Lead executive-level customer communications, including QBRs, roadmap alignment, and long-term value realization discussions.
Requirements

Preferred Qualifications, Education, and Experience

  • Proficiency leading Technical Account Management, Customer Success Engineering, or similar post-sales technical organizations.
  • Background supporting enterprise or multi-site customers in industries such as retail, hospitality, convenience stores, or other distributed operations.
  • CRM/Salesforce proficiency.
  • Experience partnering closely with Sales on renewals, expansions, and long-term account strategy.
  • Familiarity with managed networking, edge computing, or hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business-related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8–12+ years of relevant experience, including multiple years leading customer-facing technical teams.

Perks of Scale Computing

  • Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
  • 401(k), FSA, HSA
  • Casual dress code, flexible work environment
  • Fully stocked kitchen
  • Vibrant and Inclusive Workplace Atmosphere
  • Paid company holidays and discretionary time-off policy

Scale Computing is a global business with offices around the world, thousands of customers, and countless applications running on our industry-leading platforms. We enjoy this success because we have made a conscious effort to build this company by hiring amazing people. Scale Computing was founded on the belief that transparency and collaboration create a culture of ownership, success, and empowerment; more empowered employees are more productive employees. 


Scale Computing is an equal opportunity employer. The final candidates will be subject to a pre-employment background check.