Nokia

Optical Customer Success Engineer

Nokia$100K — $140K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in Customer Success and support within the networking industry, especially with Long-haul, Metro, Access, and Mobile technologies.
  • Self-motivated and goal-oriented with a strong record in delivering White Glove services and customer onboarding.
  • Proficient in Salesforce CRM, capable of generating internal and customer reports.
  • Excellent persuasive communication skills for interactions at operational and engineering levels.
  • B.S. degree preferred; candidates with substantial technical and customer service experience will be considered.

Responsibilities

  • Cultivate strong relationships with customers, understanding their individual and company-level needs.
  • Act as the primary liaison between customers and Infinera services.
  • Ensure high standards of customer service through a 'White Glove' support delivery.
  • Capture and advocate for customer feedback and performance metrics.
  • Develop and document a comprehensive customer engagement playbook for success and communication.
  • Track customer metrics to promote continuous improvement and mitigate churn risk.
  • Create tailored reports for customer program performance and overall health.

Benefits

  • Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
  • Health and dental benefits
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance, with company-paid coverage up to twice the base pay
  • Paid vacation and holidays
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Tuition Assistance Program
  • Adoption assistance
  • Employee Assistance Program for wellness support
Full Job Description
Job Description

Optical Customer Success Engineers (CSEs) are based right in the same country as our customers, so they're always close at hand to provide expert support. CSEs are true subject matter experts and are an essential piece of Nokia being able to provide top-tier Technical Support services. CSEs act as proactive advisors, offering recommendations and helping to implement customer-approved action plans. CSEs are responsible for quickly identifying and resolving any technical issues by working closely with our Constant Care Team. CSEs provide our customers with a dedicated, highly technical resource who the customer can rely on for all their technical support issues and needs. If you're passionate about helping customers and have a strong technical background, the CSE role might be the perfect fit for you!

Responsibilities

  • Thoughtfully cultivate and foster customer relationships, developing an in-depth understanding of the customer at both company and individual levels, including operational, engineering, and management personnel.
  • Serve as the single point of contact and liaison between customer and Infinera services and support.
  • Responsible for the facilitation of "White Glove" Customer Service and Support Delivery
  • Become the customers "Voice", including real time capture of feedback, customer performance metrics, representing and advocating for assigned customer within Infinera.
  • Document and operationalize a methodical and proactive customer specific play book comprised of a customer journey map, a success and communication plan, a customer specific de-escalation process and a methodical pre-defined/scheduled engagement plan.
  • Identify, track, and facilitate continuous improvement for key customer metrics, eliminating risk of churn or customer dis-satisfaction.
  • Develop custom reporting for customer programs including services performance, product quality, overall customer health.
  • Drive customer growth leveraged by proven & documented positive customer outcomes.
  • Onboard new customer personnel ensuring a thorough understanding of the pre-defined journey, product and features, introduction of key Infinera personnel, and collaborative finalization of the play book.
  • Partner with engineering, PLM, and presales teams during New Product/Services Introduction to provide programmatic level support, ensuring a smooth transition to professional services and services and support. Work with pre-production teams to assist customer in early Time To Value (TTV) and optimal Product / Feature adoption.


Qualifications

You have:
  • 7+ years past experience with Customer Success and support, in the networking industry and possess a strong knowledge of Long-haul, Metro, Access and Mobile technologies. Experience supporting content providers is a plus.
  • Ideal candidate must be self-motivated, and goal oriented with a proven track record in White Glove delivery of services and support and customer onboarding.
  • Experience with Salesforce CRM, including ability to create internal and customer facing reports and graphs.
  • The candidate must also be comfortable in the dynamic atmosphere of a technical sales organization. Must possess persuasive communication skills and be able to communicate professionally in written responses to emails, customer inquiries, and when submitting reports to the customer, both at operational and engineering levels
  • A B.S. level degree preferred, however candidates with demonstrable technical & customer service depth will also be considered. Professional certification in Customer Success a plus

DCN2025

About the Team

Some of our benefits in US:

  • Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
  • Health and dental benefits
  • Short-term disability, and long-term disability
  • Life insurance, and AD&D - Company paid 2x base pay
  • Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
  • Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Tuition Assistance Plan
  • Adoption assistance
  • Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program


The above benefits exclude students.

Disclaimer for US/Canada

Nokia Maintains broad annual base salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience and market conditions, and with consideration to internal peer equity. Check the salary ranges in the job info section for this role.

All North America job posts will post for a minimum of 7 calendar days and up to 180 days or until candidate/s identified.

About Nokia

Nokia is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics company. The company was founded in 1865 and has since grown to become one of the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers in the world. Nokia's products include mobile phones, smartphones, and network equipment, among others. The company is committed to innovation and has a strong focus on research and development. Nokia is also committed to sustainability and has set ambitious targets for reducing its environmental impact. The company operates in over 100 countries and has a strong presence in Europe, Asia, and North America.
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-$2.5 billion
Founded
1865
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$21.8 billion
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