Location: Austin, United States of America

Hybrid- Austin, TX or Plantation, FL

Thales is hiring an experience Customer Advocacy Manager that will build, manage, and scale a global customer advocacy program that elevates the voice of Thales customers across the cybersecurity landscape. This role is responsible for transforming customer success into compelling storytelling that drives pipeline growth, strengthens brand credibility, and deepens customer engagement.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Manage day-to-day operations of the global customer advocacy program, including strategy, coordination and execution
• Align with product business line leaders on overall customer story themes and focus areas
• Partner with sales, customer success managers, and regional marketing to identify strong candidates for advocacy initiatives
• Conduct customer interviews and collaborate with product marketing on translating customer stories into case studies, video, web, and social media assets
• Ensure customer stories align with key messaging, cybersecurity solutions, and priority industry use cases.
• Secure customer participation in key Thales initiatives including analyst reports, product audit interviews, SKO customer panels
• Establish processes to track advocacy activity, measure impact, and grow participation (i.,e. reference database, SFDC tool etc.)
• Create quarterly advocacy reports; share with sales, marketing, regional marketing, product marketing, and customer success leadership
• Produce other customer-facing content: Nurture stream, ROI / business-impact reports and benchmarks

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Marketing or another related field of study or equivalent work experience
• 5-8 years' experience in customer marketing, advocacy, or reference programs. Cybersecurity experience preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication to effectively translate customer stories into high-impact marketing assets
• Proven ability to build strong rapport and cross collaboration with internal stakeholders (product marketing, sales, customer success, regional marketing) and customers
• Highly motivated and able to multitask; work with a sense of urgency
• Highly detail oriented, organized, and able to prioritize assigned tasks
• Experience using Salesforce, Allego, reference tracking tool

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer at the time of hire. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or for assuming sponsorship of an employment visa now or in the future.

If you're excited about working with Thales, but not meeting the requirements for this position, we encourage you to join our Talent Community! https://careers.thalesgroup.com/global/en/jointalentcommunity. You can upload your CV and our recruiters can get in touch with any new opportunities that may be of interest to you.

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The reference Total Target Compensation (TTC) market range for this position, inclusive of annual base salary and the variable compensation target, is between

Total Target Cash (TTC) 89,747.00 - 161,183.00 USD Annual

This reflects how companies in a similar industry and geographic region generally pay for similar jobs. This range helps the Company make pay decisions as one data point among many. Where a position falls within this range is also dependent on other factors including - but not limited to - the employee's career path history, competencies, skills and performance, as well as the company's annual salary budget, the customer's program requirements, and the company's internal equity. Thales may offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's status protected by local, state, or federal law.

(For Internal candidate, if you need more information, please reach out to your HR Shared Service, 1st Point)

Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 30 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:
• Elective Health, Dental, Vision, FSA/HSA, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Whole Group Life w/LTC, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Plan, Identity Theft, and Pet Insurance
• Retirement Savings Plan after 30 days of employment with a company contribution and a match, and with no vesting period
• Company paid holidays and Paid Time Off
• Company provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Disability, Employee Assistance Plan, and Well-being Program