Sr. Manager, Starlink Enterprise Accounts

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Sr. Manager, Starlink Enterprise Accounts 

Starlink, our revolutionary satellite constellation, is delivering low-latency broadband internet around the world. As an early leader of the Starlink Enterprise Accounts team, you will be leading and building a new team to work with Starlink enterprise customers. You and the team will be responsible for the project management of enterprise contracts to rapidly drive realization of revenue, working closely with counterparts on the Starlink cross-functionally. A key challenge will be driving a culture that both maximizes customer happiness and minimizes the input required by the team.

The Enterprise Account Management team will serve as the point of contact for customers from contract signature, through successful activation, ensuring all contract terms are fulfilled while identifying new opportunities to generate business with Enterprise customers. Prior to contract signature, the team will have a key role in ensuring that the commitments we make are ones we can successfully execute to.  Our ideal candidate is a self-starter that has a passion for making customers deliriously happy, building excellent teams, and managing complex cross-functional projects.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Grow and build the enterprise account management function within Starlink
    • Hire and lead an exceptional team
    • Identify and build necessary tools and capabilities to manage accounts in a scalable way, work closely with the Application Software and Finance teams to automate as much as possible
    • Develop internal goals and metrics/visualizations to measure and communicate success
  • All aspects of non-technical project management for commercial enterprise accounts
    • Work with internal and external stakeholders to finalize commercial enterprise contracts, serving as a final check before contract signature to ensure we are poised for success and any risks are captured/communicated internally
    • Ensure that contract deliverables are delivered on time and meeting contract requirements
    • Take an extreme ownership approach to realizing forecasted revenue on or ahead of schedule
    • Identify and broadly/loudly communicate readiness levels, requirements, schedules, and risks
  • Own the customer interface from contract signature onwards - onboarding, ongoing account management, and long-term retention/growth of the relationship and revenue – especially focusing on
    • Build relationships with customer points of contact to identify requirements and manage expectations, driving revenue realization as quickly as possible
    • Collect, communicate and champion customer feedback internally to influence and steer programmatic and technical development required to maintain and grow enterprise business
    • Retain and grow the value of accounts

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or business
  • 5+ years working with customers to support a technical product/service
  • 3+ years direct people management experience

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Demonstrated ability to quickly and successfully grow an excellent team and new function, including ability to develop and coach team members
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere
  • Demonstrated ability to champion and lead significant projects and business initiatives, including ability to manage in an environment with competing priorities
  • Exceptional customer interface skills, including excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to tailor communications appropriately to level (working-level to executive-level)  
  • Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
  • Familiarity with existing Starlink products, services and customer support systems/processes

ADDITIONAL REQUIRMENTS:

  • Must be available to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to support critical milestones or operations shifts
  • Must be willing to travel to other SpaceX offices and customer locations as needed

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

  • To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.  

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