Manager, Starlink Customer Success (Asia-Pacific & Oceania)

SpaceX
Bastrop, TX
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward candidates with experience managing enterprise reseller books across geographically distributed markets, comfortable with navigating complex regulatory and logistical challenges.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in enterprise account management and international team leadership
    — “owning and growing a book of existing customers, with direct responsibility for revenue, retention, or expansion”
  • Professionals familiar with telecommunications or satellite connectivity and cross-functional collaboration
    — “Experience in telecommunications, satellite, connectivity, networking, or another technical industry”
  • Individuals who can balance high-level strategy with hands-on problem-solving in a fast-moving environment
    — “Stay close enough to the work to know when to coach, when to step in, and when to let the team run independently”

Things to consider

  • Must be available for early mornings, evenings, and occasional weekends to support regional time zones
    — “Must be available for early mornings, evenings, and occasional weekends”
  • International travel is a regular requirement and may involve frequent movement across the region
    — “Must be willing to travel regularly throughout Asia-Pacific and Oceania”
  • U.S. citizenship or legal residency is mandatory due to ITAR export regulations
    — “applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize experience in cross-border enterprise account management and resolving complex billing and regulatory issues
    — “Work through billing, payment, regulatory, capacity, logistics, product availability, and activation issues”
  • Highlight track record of growing revenue with existing enterprise accounts and leading geographically distributed teams
    — “Strong track record of growing revenue within existing enterprise accounts”
  • Demonstrate ability to align with Sales and Channel Sales teams for consistent customer messaging
    — “Align closely with regional Sales and Channel Sales teams”
  • Showcase leadership in forecasting and identifying growth opportunities across multiple markets
    — “Develop a clear view of where demand is growing across the region”
  • Demonstrate experience in building hardware and service forecasts for leadership
    — “Build hardware and service forecasts that leadership can rely on”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • revenue growth
  • customer satisfaction
  • team performance
Typical background
customer successaccount managementsales

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer SuccessAccount ManagementSalesCommercial RolesTeam ManagementCommunication

Preferred

Technical Product KnowledgeCloud NetworkingLogistics

Stack & domain

Customer SuccessAccount ManagementSalesCommercial RolesTechnical ProductsTeam ManagementRevenue GrowthForecastingProblem-solvingLogisticsActivationBillingPaymentRegulatoryCapacityProduct AvailabilityTeam CoordinationOperating DisciplineTime Zone ManagementLeadershipCoachingCommunicationTeamworkIndependent WorkCustomer FocusInternetEnterprise ResellersAsia-pacificOceania

About the role

Original posting from SpaceX via Greenhouse

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

MANAGER, STARLINK CUSTOMER SUCCESS (ASIA-PACIFIC & OCEANIA) 

Starlink provides high-speed, low-latency internet to customers around the world. Our enterprise resellers bring Starlink to businesses across a wide range of markets and use cases. 

As the Manager, Starlink Customer Success (Asia-Pacific & Oceania), you will lead the team responsible for our enterprise reseller business across Asia-Pacific, including Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. The region spans a broad set of countries, time zones, regulatory environments, and customer needs, with resellers often operating across multiple markets. You will manage Customer Success Managers, Leads, and Specialists and be accountable for the performance and growth of the existing book. 

Your team is responsible for growing revenue with existing customers, expanding their use of Starlink, and maintaining strong commercial relationships. Across Asia-Pacific and Oceania, turning an opportunity into revenue can depend on product availability, capacity, local billing requirements, regulatory readiness, logistics, and activation. You will help the team navigate those constraints while keeping the focus on growth. 

This is a player-coach role. You will set clear priorities, coach and develop your team, and hold a high bar for performance. You will also stay close to key customers and step into the most important growth opportunities, renewals, payment issues, and escalations. We expect you to know your book, understand where the next opportunities and risks are, and keep a geographically distributed team focused on the right work. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Lead, hire, and develop a team of Customer Success Managers, Leads, and Specialists across Asia-Pacific and Oceania

Grow revenue across an existing book of enterprise resellers

Help the team identify and close opportunities for customers to expand their use of Starlink across hardware, service, data, and products

Build hardware and service forecasts that leadership can rely on, with a clear view of opportunities and risks across markets

Develop a clear view of where demand is growing across the region and what is required to turn that demand into revenue

Work through billing, payment, regulatory, capacity, logistics, product availability, and activation issues when they are blocking growth

Partner with Sales, Channel Sales, Finance, Tax, Engineering, Operations, Support, and Logistics to move customer opportunities forward

Align closely with regional Sales and Channel Sales teams so resellers receive a clear and consistent message across markets

Identify problems that repeat across countries and work with the right teams to solve them at scale

Build strong coverage and operating discipline across a team working with customers in widely separated time zones

Stay close enough to the work to know when to coach, when to step in, and when to let the team run independently 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience

6+ years in customer success, account management, sales, or another commercial role for a technical product

3+ years owning and growing a book of existing customers, with direct responsibility for revenue, retention, or expansion

2+ years of direct people management

Experience managing enterprise customers across multiple countries or markets 

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 

Strong track record of growing revenue within existing enterprise accounts

Experience leading a commercial book across Asia-Pacific and Oceania

Experience managing customers across geographically distributed markets with different regulatory, billing, logistics, and product requirements

Commercial mindset with the ability to understand a customer’s business, find opportunities, and turn them into revenue

Experience leading geographically distributed teams responsible for customer and revenue goals

Strong financial understanding, including pricing, billing, collections, and payment terms

Experience working through complex customer issues across logistics, regulatory requirements, capacity, billing, or operations

Ability to prioritize across a large region and distinguish the highest-value commercial opportunities from operational noise

Clear and direct communicator who can work effectively across different countries, cultures, and customer environments

Experience in telecommunications, satellite, connectivity, networking, or another technical industry 

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS 

Must be willing to work onsite five days per week

Must be willing to travel regularly throughout Asia-Pacific and Oceania and to other SpaceX locations

Must be available for early mornings, evenings, and occasional weekends to support customers across regional time zones and commercial deadlines

Must be able to meet requirements for international travel 

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.  

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to EEOCompliance@spacex.com. 

Source: SpaceX careers (Greenhouse)

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