Senior Customer Program Manager

Position Summary:

You will be a senior technical spearhead who bridges our products potential and customer reality. As a Senior Customer Program Manager you will own complex multi-site customer programs end-to-endleading the customer relationship deployment and early adoption at customer sites turning complex real-world environments into successful robot operations. As a senior member of an early-stage function you will act as a subject matter expert across the organization set the standards others follow and help shape the foundations of our Customer Success team.

Core Responsibilities:

• Own complex programs end-to-end. Take full ownership of one or more enterprise customer relationships and their deployments from initial scoping to production. You will drive cross-functional efforts across business operational and technical stakeholders to ensure deployments are a success.
• Develop customer-centric KPIs. You will be the primary communication channel and will be responsible for both scoping and regularly reporting out on performance to internal and customer leadership.
• Serve as primary stakeholder liaison. You will work as the connective tissue and voice of the customer to communicate with sales and operations across the full lifecycle: late-stage sales calls discovery sessions contract scoping and execution.
• Act as a subject matter expert and communicate clearly across the org. Advocate for customers in discussions with product and engineering to ensure the roadmap is closely aligned to customer needs and translate technical realities for audiences at every level from the field to the executive team.
• Translate field insights into product requests documenting edge cases integration challenges and feature requests.
• Act as first-line customer health owner regularly interacting with customer stakeholders and escalating any issues.
• Mentor teammates and raise quality standards. Coach less-experienced team members establish repeatable playbooks and best practices and continually raise the bar for customer engagements as the Customer Success function scales.
• Align work to Walden Robotics broader mission. Connect day-to-day deployment decisions to the companys mission of bringing general-purpose robots into the real world prioritizing the efforts that most advance that vision.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years in hands-on technical or sales roles in robotics automation industrial systems or related fields including a track record of owning complex cross-functional programs end-to-end.
• Systems integration expertise: Deep understanding of how software hardware sensors and networks integrate in uncontrolled real-world environments.
• Previous field experience: Background as Field Application Engineer Solutions Engineer Sales Engineer Technical Consultant Customer Success or deployment specialist ideally in robotics IoT or industrial automation.
• Communication range & agility: Equally comfortable explaining technical constraints to an executive buyer and troubleshooting with a facilities operator on a loading dock. You thrive in the face of ambiguity and rapid iteration and wearing multiple hats is second natureyou might design an operations workflow integration one day and present to a COO the next.
• Leadership & mentorship: Demonstrated ability to act as a subject matter expert mentor teammates and set quality standards for others.
• Travel: Up to 50% requiredweekly to monthly domestic travel (Bay Area Pacific Northwest Southeast Midwest). Must be available for multi-day site visits and deployment sprints.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience working in a startup environment.
• Experience deploying new technology initiatives in manufacturing healthcare pharma or other complex facilities environments.
• Familiarity with robotic systems: computer vision & sensor integration autonomy stacks etc.
• Experience training non-technical operators on complex systems; comfortable producing documentation for training materials and remote support.

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program including salary annual cash bonus company equity company-subsidized insurance programs 401(k) with company match flexible PTO daily lunch and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process please send a request to .

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