Role Overview
As Customer Experience Account Specialist, you will serve as a senior individual contributor responsible for managing customer experience health, account-level coordination, service visibility, and issue resolution across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center customers. This role ensures customers have clear visibility into readiness, delivery progress, operational support, escalations, and ongoing service commitments.
You will partner closely with Customer Experience leadership, Customer Success, Sales, Site Deployment, Data Center Operations, Engineering, Network, Security, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and customer stakeholders. You will maintain account-level operating discipline, coordinate customer-facing updates, identify risks early, and help ensure the customer experience remains consistent, transparent, and trusted across complex data center workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Serve as the primary customer experience account owner for assigned customers, accounts, sites, or deployment programs.
Maintain account-level visibility into customer commitments, service expectations, delivery milestones, readiness risks, open issues, and escalation status.
Coordinate customer-facing communications, account reviews, readiness updates, service reviews, action registers, and executive summaries.
Partner with Customer Success, Sales, Site Deployment, Operations, Engineering, Network, Security, and other stakeholders to align customer expectations with delivery and operational realities.
Track customer requirements related to capacity, deployment timing, access, security, compliance, network readiness, site support, service reporting, and operational handoff.
Own customer issue logs, escalation trackers, action plans, decision records, and follow-up cadences through closure.
Identify customer-impacting risks and drive cross-functional alignment on mitigation plans, owners, timelines, and communication strategy.
Support customer onboarding, move-in readiness, audit coordination, service transition, and steady-state support processes.
Prepare account-level dashboards, customer health summaries, KPI reporting, milestone updates, and leadership briefings.
Ensure customer-facing commitments are accurately documented, tracked, escalated, and handed off to the appropriate operational owners.
Partner with Data Center Operations to ensure customer support aligns with change management, incident response, maintenance windows, access procedures, and service management expectations.
Capture recurring customer themes, friction points, and account risks to improve playbooks, reporting, governance, and customer experience standards.
Support executive escalations by providing clear facts, current status, recommended next actions, and accountable owners.
Ideal Candidate Profile
8+ years of experience in customer experience, account management, customer success, service delivery, technical program coordination, data center operations, infrastructure delivery, or mission-critical support.
Experience supporting enterprise, cloud, colocation, telecommunications, or mission-critical infrastructure customers.
Strong understanding of customer lifecycle management across onboarding, readiness, deployment, service transition, operational support, and escalation management.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate across Customer Success, Sales, Operations, Engineering, Deployment, Network, Security, Legal, Finance, and Procurement.
Experience managing customer health reporting, action registers, escalation trackers, issue logs, account reviews, and executive updates.
Strong written communication skills with the ability to create clear, accurate, customer-ready summaries.
Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, operations, engineering, communications, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills and Competencies
Customer-first mindset with strong judgment, ownership, and follow-through.
Strong account coordination skills, including tracking commitments, risks, issues, decisions, and stakeholder actions.
Clear written and verbal communication with executive presence and strong attention to detail.
Ability to translate technical, operational, and delivery issues into customer-ready language.
Strong cross-functional coordination and influence across matrixed teams.
High comfort managing ambiguity, shifting priorities, and sensitive customer escalations.
Strong process discipline with a bias toward clean records, accurate reporting, and repeatable operating standards.
Preferred Skills / Certifications
Experience with data center customer support, customer move-in, deployment readiness, audit support, or colocation account operations.
Familiarity with ITIL, service management, incident/change management, SLA/KPI reporting, customer health reporting, or executive business reviews.
Experience with Salesforce, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Jira, Oracle systems, Tableau/Power BI, or similar CRM, workflow, and reporting tools.
Customer success, ITIL, PMP, Six Sigma, or service management certification.
Working knowledge of data center infrastructure, including power, cooling, network, physical security, access control, CMMS, BMS/EPMS, and operational procedures.
Physical Demands / Work Environment
This role operates in office, remote collaboration, customer-facing, and active data center environments. The position may require periodic travel to data center sites, customer meetings, deployment reviews, and operational readiness sessions. Site visits may involve walking large facilities, standing for extended periods, using stairs, and following all safety, security, and access-control requirements.
Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
Global impact at cloud scale supporting some of the world's most demanding infrastructure customers.
Customer-facing role where clarity, accountability, and operational trust matter every day.
Culture built on ownership, execution discipline, continuous improvement, and cross-functional partnership.
Long-term career development across customer experience, service delivery, data center operations, and cloud infrastructure leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
16 years of experience in client-facing, direct customer support and service, data center, or related field experience
OR
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field AND 12 years of experience in client-facing, direct customer support and service, data center, or related field experience
OR
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field AND 10 years of experience in client-facing, direct customer support and service, data center, or related field experience
OR
Doctorate in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field AND 7 years of experience in client-facing, direct customer support and service, data center, or related field experience.
IT Infrastructure/Server Trouble Shooting Experience:
7 years of experience in IT infrastructure, data center services, or server administration.
Cloud Environment (Hyperscale) Experience:
6 years of experience in hyperscale cloud environments.
Certifications:
Data Center or Cloud Industry Certifications.