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Strategic Extreme Networks focus areas include:

• Extreme Applications – Analytics & Visibility, Orchestration and Security• Extreme Switching – Campus, Data Center, and Edge

• Extreme Routing – Core to Edge, Local or Cloud Managed

• Extreme Wireless – Controllers, Indoor/Outdoor, Specialized, Wifi-6, Local or Cloud Managed

Extreme is seeking a Premier Delivery Manager to be based in the East or Central United States area. PDM’s provide overall service delivery and account management for Extreme’s Premier accounts and act as primary contact for customers during their engagements with Extreme’s Global Service Delivery organization.

The Delivery Manager is a field-based member of the Premier Support Delivery organization that provides onsite technical operations, deployment, network monitoring and escalation support for Premier customers.

Account Management: 70%

Primary account contact responsible for customer satisfaction of support services of Extreme’s best in class Global Service Delivery OrganizationCoordinate with Sales Channels and Professional Services as the focal point for all post-sales account related activities. Proactively engage customer for requirements relating to product enhancements that would improve product serviceability and usability. Work closely with the appropriate Engineering organization to ensure clear understanding and implementation of approved enhancements and creation of official requests for enhancements are given to product management. Provide quarterly reviews to assigned Premier and Premier+ accounts. Establish regular communications with customers, including on-site visits. Access the Extreme Oracle system (PD’s) and conduct early trend indicator analysis. Provide on-site presence during critical or high-visibility situations, project managing account recovery activities while delivering the appropriate ongoing status and postmortem documentation. Work with and provide daily guidance as needed to Extreme engineers assigned to the account Respond promptly to customer needs, providing value added services where applicable. Ensure that accurate documentation of customer’s Extreme network, and associated information is current and available for customer support. Monitor, review and track all support cases. Maintain tracking documents and monitor for negative trends taking appropriate actions such as notification/engagement of technical support management team Provide proactive administration of the customers environment: Review cases and conduct early trend indicator analysis, review logs, TSBs, ISBs, Heat Map, EOL, EOS, etc. Proactively engage customer requirements relating to product enhancements that would improve product serviceability and usability. Represent/present the customer requirement to the appropriate Engineering organization to ensure clear understanding and implementation of approved enhancements

Work closely with the customer to ensure customer satisfaction of all professional services account engagements. Support the sales team on pre-sales activities such as customer escalations/troubleshooting, customer demonstrations, lab set-up, training/knowledge transfer, sales calls – travel as required. Proactively engage the sales team to create awareness of new product and solution offerings and first-hand account knowledge of future customer growth requirements. Support post sales services engagements such as installations and assessments Develop relationships with customer to degree where new product services can be suggested, and accordingly passed along to the sales team for potential new sales opportunities.

Mentor and coach co-workers and peers. Share valuable knowledge openly. Develop and maintain Extreme customer operation procedures documentation. Maintain current industry trends, competition, and technical and product knowledge with respect to its value to Extreme customers.

Other duties as assigned: 5%

B. S. degree in Computer Science, a related field; or equivalent work experience. 10 years’ experience in telecommunications or related technical field, preferably network operations related. 5 years of customer support experience in data process, data communications or related environment.Responsibility for high profile tasks or projects within the scope of a mid-level manager position. 5 years of people management and/or leadership.

Demonstrated leadership in customer account management, carrier class customer experience highly valued. Excellent project planning, communication and customer relation skills. Project management training or related experience beneficial.Ability to manage tense, critical situations, creating and enhancing customer confidence through reliable, repetitive and complete resolutions.Ability to effectively lead and/or influence direction of projects or situations in such a manner that resolves issues or needs for the customer and Extreme.Ability to create effective team atmosphere that spans organizations such as sales, technical support, and service delivery – ideally forming a close partnership with the customer.

Broad understanding of Extreme platforms expectedNetworking/Network OperationsCustomer relationship management and related soft skillsSituational control, leadership and facilitation to resolutionTroubleshooting network, hardware and software issuesMust have proven experience organizing and expressing written and verbal communications clearly, effectively, and efficientlyAbility to develop and deliver materials/presentations to small audiences up to 50

IP technologies and protocolsRouting/SwitchingStorage area Networking technologiesNetwork Function VirtualizationSoftware Defined NetworkingTechnical support operations/methodologiesNetwork Analytics – data collection methodologies and tools.

Monday through Friday and weekend or overnight hours as required to support customer in maintenance windows or critical event circumstances.

Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) creates effortless networking experiences that enable all of us to advance. We push the boundaries of technology leveraging the powers of machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, and automation. Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions and rely on our top-rated services and support to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver progress like never before. For more information, visit Extreme's website or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.