Customer Success Manager - Apptio Cloudability

IBM

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Sales & Business Development, Customer Service

Heredia Province, Heredia, Costa Rica

Posted on Apr 30, 2026
Introduction

As a Customer Success Manager, you will serve as the primary customer success technical advisor and trusted advocate for North & South American customers using IBM Cloudability. You will be responsible for ensuring customers realize measurable value from their investment by driving product adoption, optimizing use cases, and delivering business outcomes aligned to their strategic goals.

This role combines deep product expertise, technical problem-solving, and customer engagement to build and nurture long-term partnerships that lead to successful renewals and expansion.

Your role and responsibilities

Customer Success Ownership

  • Manage a full portfolio of customers leveraging IBM Cloudability
  • Own customer health and adoption outcomes by serving as the primary advocate for assigned accounts.
  • Act as the bridge between customer leadership and Apptio internal teams, ensuring alignment on goals, usage, and business value.

Success Planning & Value Realization

  • Develop and maintain a Customer Success Plan for each account that outlines objectives, success criteria, adoption milestones, and measurable value targets.
  • Coach customers through their journey, from first point of value to advanced use cases, ensuring adoption is embedded within the customer’s processes.
  • Partner with the account team to regularly present progress and outcomes to client executives, highlighting realized value and aligning on next-phase opportunities.

Technical Expertise

  • Serve as the product expert, ensuring readiness across key capabilities, use cases, and technical integrations for IBM Cloudability.
  • Provide best practice guidance, solution design input, and hands-on support for operationalizing customer use cases.
  • Partner with Customer Success Architects, Technical Account Managers, and Product Management to address technical blockers and optimize the customer experience.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with Account Managers, Engagement Managers, and Strategy Advisors to ensure unified execution of the Customer Success Plan.
  • Provide insights from customer usage, adoption patterns, and technical challenges back to internal teams to influence roadmap and strategy.

Customer Advocacy

  • Develop strong relationships with customer stakeholders and the Finops Office to ensure adoption is championed internally.
  • Represent the voice of the customer to Apptio leadership and product teams.
  • Identify and nurture referenceable customers through successful use case adoption and measurable business outcomes.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

  • Experience: Hands-on experience as technical customer success, solutions engineering, consulting, or technical account management role within SaaS or enterprise software.

  • Domain Knowledge: Good understanding of FinOps framework, CSP savings instruments and its use cases

  • Language: Portuguese & English Fluency Required. Spanish fluency a plus.

  • Skills:

  • Strong technical acumen with the ability to translate complex product capabilities into customer outcomes.
  • Proven ability to manage customer relationships, including executive-level communication.
  • Strong problem-solving, facilitation, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to interpret complex data and propose effective solutions.
  • Comfortable driving structured success plans and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Hands-on experience with leading cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP); certification in AWS Practitioner or Azure AZ-900 preferred.
  • Plan, execute, and track Cloud Savings Programs across CSPs for new and existing customers.
  • Demonstrated track record in increasing customer FinOps maturity.
  • Lead discussions and manage commitment-based discounts across all savings instruments.
  • Leverage the IBM Cloudability platform to analyze customer business objectives and deliver reporting, dashboards, and savings insights.
  • Deep expertise in AWS rate optimization, including Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.

  • Tools: Experience with Gainsight, Salesforce, or similar Customer Success platforms a plus. Experience with data analytics tools such as Excel, Tableau, and Power BI.

  • Mindset: Outcome-driven, collaborative, and passionate about enabling customers to succeed.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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