Sales Customer Success Engineer Professional New York, US
IBM, New York, NY, United States
Overview
At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you’ll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact.Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You’ll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class on-boarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that’s passionate about driving innovation and making a difference. Your role and responsibilities
Responsibilities
Through continuous engagement, CSEs help clear technical blockers, optimize solution design, and accelerate time-to-value for Customers adopting HashiCorp tooling. The CSE team demonstrates our practical technical expertise across the HashiCorp stack to help our customers address their business challenges with our technologies, to drive effective implementation of HashiCorp tooling, to increase customer value attainment through expanded product uptake and to secure on-time renewals and expansions of customer investments in the HashiCorp toolchain!
Responsible for success of your assigned customer accounts throughout the customer journey, from onboarding through adoption and expansion/extension/renewal phases, as measured by customer product consumption, health, retention and growth
Serve as a subject matter expert for our customers’ usage of our tools to solve business challenges, providing customers with technical and business-oriented guidance at strategic points throughout their customer journey with HashiCorp
Establish and maintain an understanding of the overall HashiCorp technology portfolio, and leverage this knowledge in conjunction with business insights to help improve customer application deliver and to help customers use HashiCorp tooling to drive measurable value-based outcomes
Understand and document customer goals, challenges, business objectives and technical requirements in order to provide solutions, guidance and engagements tailored to each customer’s needs
Ensure the timely creation and upkeep of account health scores, notes, and calls to action in Gainsight
Partner with the aligned account sales team to both identify, handle and mitigate customer risk across the customer’s lifecycle with HashiCorp and to identify and develop opportunities to expand the depth and breadth of customer utilization of the HashiCorp toolchain
Work cross-functionally with internal partners in product and engineering teams to translate customer business requirements into additional features to improve our product offerings
Lead and coordinate account recovery actions for escalated customers, driving their successful de-escalation and return to normal health
Required education High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
7+ years experience with solution architecture, sales engineering, technical account management or equivalent experience
Proficiency and experience with concepts and technologies using software development, operations, security cloud, microservices, containers, and scheduling platform
Proficiency and/or knowledge of existing solutions in the same domain as HashiCorp tools (e.g. Infrastructure Automation, Identity Management and Dev/Ops) such as Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault and others
Exceptional communication skills, including experience developing and delivering technical content, experience asking effective questions to understand customer business priorities and needs, and comfort handling customer objections
Passion for learning and working with new technologies, and willingness to dive into new areas of knowledge without external motivation and with an eye for detail
Ability to work well in a highly-dynamic environment that focuses on providing outstanding Customer service
Experience planning projects and leading customers through implementations of highly-technical products
Comfort working with and advising both technical and business partners across the customer lifecycle
Fluency in understanding, quantifying and empathizing with customer organizational pain and prescribing technical and process solutions to mitigate those difficulties
Expertise in driving adoption of product use cases to enhance customer value attainment and satisfaction
Skill in identifying and addressing customer risk, and confidence in mitigating it
Comfort working remotely and performing well given a high level of independence and autonomy
Up to 50% travel required
Preferred technical and professional experience
Advanced Technical Product Knowledge: Exposure to emerging technologies and trends related to Business Unit specialty or brand products, enabling design of innovative client solutions.
Solution Design Optimization: Experience working with clients to optimize solution designs, leveraging product capabilities and providing input for solutions refinement.
Technical Accelerator Development: Exposure to creating and delivering complex technical accelerators, such as customized demonstrations and workshops, to drive sales and articulate value proposition.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
ABOUT IBM IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
This position is eligible for participation in an IBM Sales Incentive plan. Actual incentive opportunity will be based on performance and the eligible Target Incentive, as addressed in the applicable plan, all of which is subject to change. The compensation range listed for this position is the IBM Reference Salary that is used when you are not actively participating in a sales plan. Your actual base pay plus incentive opportunity will be determined by the Incentive Plan assigned to you.
Job Title
Customer Success Engineer
Date posted
12-Mar-2026
Job ID
100057
City / Township / Village
New York
State / Province
New York
Country
United States
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Employment type
Regular
Contract type
Regular
Projected Minimum Salary per year
109,000.00
Projected Maximum Salary per year
203,000.00
Position type
Professional
Some travel may be required based on business demand
Company
(0147) International Business Machines Corporation
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
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At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you’ll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact.Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You’ll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class on-boarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that’s passionate about driving innovation and making a difference. Your role and responsibilities
Responsibilities
Through continuous engagement, CSEs help clear technical blockers, optimize solution design, and accelerate time-to-value for Customers adopting HashiCorp tooling. The CSE team demonstrates our practical technical expertise across the HashiCorp stack to help our customers address their business challenges with our technologies, to drive effective implementation of HashiCorp tooling, to increase customer value attainment through expanded product uptake and to secure on-time renewals and expansions of customer investments in the HashiCorp toolchain!
Responsible for success of your assigned customer accounts throughout the customer journey, from onboarding through adoption and expansion/extension/renewal phases, as measured by customer product consumption, health, retention and growth
Serve as a subject matter expert for our customers’ usage of our tools to solve business challenges, providing customers with technical and business-oriented guidance at strategic points throughout their customer journey with HashiCorp
Establish and maintain an understanding of the overall HashiCorp technology portfolio, and leverage this knowledge in conjunction with business insights to help improve customer application deliver and to help customers use HashiCorp tooling to drive measurable value-based outcomes
Understand and document customer goals, challenges, business objectives and technical requirements in order to provide solutions, guidance and engagements tailored to each customer’s needs
Ensure the timely creation and upkeep of account health scores, notes, and calls to action in Gainsight
Partner with the aligned account sales team to both identify, handle and mitigate customer risk across the customer’s lifecycle with HashiCorp and to identify and develop opportunities to expand the depth and breadth of customer utilization of the HashiCorp toolchain
Work cross-functionally with internal partners in product and engineering teams to translate customer business requirements into additional features to improve our product offerings
Lead and coordinate account recovery actions for escalated customers, driving their successful de-escalation and return to normal health
Required education High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
7+ years experience with solution architecture, sales engineering, technical account management or equivalent experience
Proficiency and experience with concepts and technologies using software development, operations, security cloud, microservices, containers, and scheduling platform
Proficiency and/or knowledge of existing solutions in the same domain as HashiCorp tools (e.g. Infrastructure Automation, Identity Management and Dev/Ops) such as Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault and others
Exceptional communication skills, including experience developing and delivering technical content, experience asking effective questions to understand customer business priorities and needs, and comfort handling customer objections
Passion for learning and working with new technologies, and willingness to dive into new areas of knowledge without external motivation and with an eye for detail
Ability to work well in a highly-dynamic environment that focuses on providing outstanding Customer service
Experience planning projects and leading customers through implementations of highly-technical products
Comfort working with and advising both technical and business partners across the customer lifecycle
Fluency in understanding, quantifying and empathizing with customer organizational pain and prescribing technical and process solutions to mitigate those difficulties
Expertise in driving adoption of product use cases to enhance customer value attainment and satisfaction
Skill in identifying and addressing customer risk, and confidence in mitigating it
Comfort working remotely and performing well given a high level of independence and autonomy
Up to 50% travel required
Preferred technical and professional experience
Advanced Technical Product Knowledge: Exposure to emerging technologies and trends related to Business Unit specialty or brand products, enabling design of innovative client solutions.
Solution Design Optimization: Experience working with clients to optimize solution designs, leveraging product capabilities and providing input for solutions refinement.
Technical Accelerator Development: Exposure to creating and delivering complex technical accelerators, such as customized demonstrations and workshops, to drive sales and articulate value proposition.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
ABOUT IBM IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
This position is eligible for participation in an IBM Sales Incentive plan. Actual incentive opportunity will be based on performance and the eligible Target Incentive, as addressed in the applicable plan, all of which is subject to change. The compensation range listed for this position is the IBM Reference Salary that is used when you are not actively participating in a sales plan. Your actual base pay plus incentive opportunity will be determined by the Incentive Plan assigned to you.
Job Title
Customer Success Engineer
Date posted
12-Mar-2026
Job ID
100057
City / Township / Village
New York
State / Province
New York
Country
United States
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Employment type
Regular
Contract type
Regular
Projected Minimum Salary per year
109,000.00
Projected Maximum Salary per year
203,000.00
Position type
Professional
Some travel may be required based on business demand
Company
(0147) International Business Machines Corporation
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
#J-18808-Ljbffr