Palo Alto Networks

Chronosphere - Customer Success Architect

Palo Alto Networks$142K — $230K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in customer-facing technical roles (Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, etc.)
  • Experience managing complex customer portfolios with $1M+ ARR
  • Strong partnership with technical stakeholders (Dev Ops, Engineering)
  • Strategic mindset for account ownership and executive influence
  • Proficiency in project management and executive communication
  • Hands-on knowledge of observability and cloud-native technologies
  • Curiosity and growth mindset with an ability to navigate ambiguity

Responsibilities

  • Build trusted relationships at all customer levels
  • Develop and manage strategic account plans
  • Lead customer enablement and onboarding engagements
  • Serve as primary advisor for technical initiatives
  • Identify and mitigate portfolio risks
  • Navigate internal ecosystems to enhance customer value
  • Act as customer advocate for product and strategy influence
  • Drive platform adoption and ROI communication
  • Deliver tailored strategic insights for business goals
  • Contribute to Customer Success best practices

Benefits

  • Recognized leader in the industry
  • Opportunity to influence product development
  • Collaborative and fast-paced work environment
  • Engagement with innovative brands
  • Focus on career growth and strategic engagement
Full Job Description
Job Summary

About the team

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing complexity, optimizing costs, and remediating issues faster. Chronosphere reduces data volumes and associated costs by 84% on average while saving developers thousands of hours. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including DoorDash, Affirm, and Zillow.

About the role
The Customer Success Architect (CSA) acts as the post-sales leader for Chronosphere's largest customers. They offer strategic and technical guidance to help customers unlock the full potential of their observability strategy and maximize the use and value of Chronosphere.
In this role, you'll guide customers through the customer journey, helping them navigate challenges, identify new use cases, and mitigate risk. You'll build deep partnerships (both internal and external), manage day-to-day interactions, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver exceptional outcomes. If you love solving complex problems, thrive in fast-paced environments, and want to leave your mark on a growing company and Customer Success organization in its most exciting phase, we'd love to hear from you.

You will
  • Build trusted relationships across all levels of customer organizations, from technical end users to business executives.
  • Build, maintain, and execute strategic account plans for your customers
  • Lead strategic engagements such as 1:many customer enablement, executive business reviews, and new customer onboardings.
  • Serve as the primary advisor across technical initiatives and strategic business outcomes.
  • Identify and mitigate risks within your customer portfolio.
  • Navigate the Chronosphere ecosystem to remove obstacles, drive adoption, and maximize customer value.
  • Act as the voice of the customer to influence product development and customer success strategies.
  • Drive adoption of Chronosphere's platform and features, delivering measurable value and communicating ROI.
  • Deliver strategic insights to help customers achieve their business goals.
  • Contribute to the evolution of Chronosphere's Customer Success playbooks and best practices.


Qualifications

You have
  • 5+ years of experience in technical, customer-facing roles like Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, or Professional Services.
  • Managed a portfolio of large, complex customers with $1M+ ARR, driving strategic initiatives and delivering measurable outcomes.
  • Experience partnering with technical stakeholders (Dev Ops, Engineering, CTO/CIO) and know how to tailor your communication across audiences.
  • You think like a strategist, not just an order-taker: you're comfortable owning account strategy, influencing executive conversations, and proactively driving adoption and expansion.
  • Strong skills in project management, executive communication, discovery, stakeholder management, and value-based storytelling.
  • Hands-on knowledge of observability, monitoring, and cloud-native environments, and you're excited by technologies like Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and distributed systems.
  • Curiosity, a growth mindset, and a drive to turn ambiguity into opportunity.


Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$142,000.00 - $230,000.00/yr

Our Commitment

We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference.
Learn more about Palo Alto Networks
Size
11,870 employees
Market Cap
$42.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$368.2 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+25.7%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
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