Customer Onboarding Engineer, DigitalOcean
$60-92k
Cloud computing services for developers
Job no longer available
Cloud computing services for developers
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$60-92k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify cloud computing so developers and businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
Role
Who you are
- Education: A bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as computer science, engineering, business, or a related field, is preferred
- Experience: Candidates with relevant work experience in customer support, customer success, or technical support roles are usually preferred
- Technical skills: Candidates should have a strong understanding of the product or service they will be onboarding customers onto
- Additionally, familiarity with various Customer Success Metrics such as time-to-complete onboarding, lead qualification, churn, MRR (monthly recurring revenue), ARPU (average revenue per user), expansion, and advocacy, as well as best practices related to these metrics, is also desirable
- Communication skills: Candidates should have strong verbal and written communication skills. Strong ownership
- Customer focus: Candidates should be able to understand and empathize with customers needs and requirements, and be committed to delivering an excellent customer experience
- Analytical skills: Candidates should have strong analytical skills and be able to identify trends and patterns in customer behavior or usage data using the data given to them
- Collaboration skills: Candidates should be able to work collaboratively with internal teams, such as sales, marketing, product development, and customer support, to ensure that customer onboarding is successful
- A strong customer service mindset and the ability to empathize with customers
- The ability to ask effective questions to identify pain points and needs
- The ability to manage and escalate customer issues as needed
- Strong attention to detail and consultancy skills
- Comfort with working with data and analyzing metrics
- A proactive approach to problem-solving
- A desire for continuous learning and improvement
- A strong sense of ownership and the ability to work well under pressure
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled Customer Onboarding Engineer with outstanding technical aptitude, exceptional communication abilities, and a strong customer focus
- The Customer Onboarding Engineer will be responsible for onboarding new high-value customers immediately after conversion, understanding their desired outcomes and goals, and expediting their path to success
- Customer onboarding Engineer will serve as the primary contact for the first few months, collaborating with internal teams to facilitate consultative discussions and overcome any hurdles, ensuring a seamless and enjoyable onboarding journey for the customer
- This is a full-time, remote job in a growing 24/7 global Customer Success team that takes care of Cloudways/DigitalOcean customers
- Maintain communication (via calls, emails, chats, etc.) with new high-value customers
- Understand customers’ requirements and ensure they meet them as quickly as possible
- Give product demos and help customers in realize early value
- Proactively identify customers’ health signals and up-sell opportunities
- Be the point of contact for six months after conversions and then handoff customers to Customer Success Engineers (CSE)
- Share customers’ feedback with internal teams for product improvements
- Help team Manager in improving onboarding SOPs
- Understand and keep track of business KPIs
- Understanding the customer's needs: A Customer Onboarding Engineer should be able to understand the customer's needs and requirements to ensure that the onboarding process meets those needs
- Communicating with the customer: A Customer Onboarding Engineer should be able to communicate effectively with the customer to provide guidance and support during the onboarding process
- Coordinating with different teams: A Customer Onboarding Engineer needs to work with various internal teams to ensure that the customer's needs are met, including sales, marketing, and technical support teams
- Providing technical guidance and product training: A Customer Onboarding Engineer should be able to provide technical guidance and assistance to customers during the onboarding process. Conduct product demonstrations, product walk-through and training sessions to educate customers on the features and functionality of our platform
- Developing and implementing onboarding plans: A Customer Onboarding Engineer should be able to develop and implement onboarding plans to ensure that the customer's needs are met, including training, documentation, and testing
- Continuously improve and refine our onboarding processes and documentation to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction
- Resolving technical issues: A Customer Onboarding Engineer should be able to identify and resolve technical issues that arise during the onboarding process
- Monitoring progress: A Customer Onboarding Engineer should be able to monitor the customer's progress during the onboarding process and provide regular updates to internal teams
- Providing feedback: A Customer Onboarding Engineer should be able to provide feedback to internal teams on ways to improve the onboarding process and customer experience
Our take
DigitalOcean offers computer network and storage capabilities that enable its users to quickly set up online businesses. Straightforward tools and attractive pricing have attracted hundreds of thousands of customers in the last decade, including pop superstar Beyoncé, who hosted a new album release on the company’s servers during its early years.
DigitalOcean has a strong customer base, but must continue to improve to stay relevant in such an extremely competitive space. The company battles with rivals such as Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure and Google's Cloud Platform, which are the undisputed leaders in the cloud computing market. Wisely, DigitalOcean avoids direct confrontation with these giants by focusing more on small businesses and startups and providing more savings opportunities for its users.
The company has boasted clients such as GitLab, Slack and HashiCorp amongst its impressive lists of customers. Additionally, the company has acquired Cloudways in a move to further simplify workflows for its clients that are looking to scale their digital businesses, it opened a new data center in Sydney, and expects to see a revenue rise between 9% and 12% over 2024.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2020
$50m
SERIES C
Jul 2015
$83m
SERIES B
Total funding: $173.2m
Company benefits
- Full health coverage
- Flexible vacation time
- An annual company offsite, Shark Week
- Monthly gym and internet reimbursement
- Parental leave with transition time built-in
- Formalized mentorship, LinkedIn Learning tracks, and other internal programs
- Work from home opportunities
- 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match
Company values
- Our community is bigger than us
- Simplicity is in all we DO
- We speak up when we have something to say and listen when others DO
- We are accountable to deliver on our commitments
- Love is at our core
Company HQ
South Village, New York, NY
Articles
Founders
Yancey Spruill
(CEO, not founder)Previously served as CFO and COO for SendGrid and as CFO for both TwentyEighty and DigitalGlobe.
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