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Position Summary:
The Informatics success specialist serves as a trusted advisor post-sale, ensuring that customers achieve maximum value from our Sequencing and Array informatics solutions. Informatics Success Specialists work closely with clients in research, biotech, and healthcare settings to guide them through the software adoption cycle providing insights, useful metrics, and guidance to achieve full utilization of Illumina’s Enterprise Software Stack.
As an Informatics Success Specialist you will act in a commercial success role as an expert resource for customers and internal Illumina colleagues to ensure customer success. As an ISS you will be interacting with them from point of sale through renewal and further adoption. Working cross functionally with technical support, product, marketing, and Informatics Sales Specialist colleagues the ISS ensures the voice of the customer feedback is visible across all teams and prioritized appropriately. Informatics success specialists are viewed as a “go to” resources for all things informatics - research and clinical with our key and strategic clients.
Position Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary point of contact post-sale for enterprise software clients, building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders.
- Drive revenue through continued renewal of software licensure, usage, and further software adoption.
- Partner with Informatics Sales Specialist and other resources to ensure maintenance, usage growth, upselling, and cross-selling of software.
- Proactively monitor account health and metrics, identifying risks and opportunities for growth throughout the term leading up until renewal, maintaining alignment on goals and objectives with the customer.
- Track success metrics, prepare quarterly business reviews (QBRs), and present ROI to executive stakeholders on scheduled cadence to ensure customer satisfaction and efforts to reduce churn.
- Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams to communicate client feedback and influence product roadmap.
- Develop, coordinate and sometimes conduct both basic and advanced informatics presentations and seminars for customers. This will at times involve engaging and creative demos and some proof-of-concept work.
- Provide Voice of Customer input and feedback to development teams, various marketing teams and others as needed.
- Develop and manage active sales pipeline for renewals opportunities, usage growth, and opportunities for expansion
Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.
Position Requirements:
- Typically requires 2+ years relevant experience. Experience in a software sales, customer success, and/or project management role.
- Scientific background, and specifically molecular biology, is highly desired. Experience selling and supporting commercial software is ideal.
- Demonstrated written and verbal communication and training skills.
- Outstanding problem solving and interpersonal skills.
- Clear vision of and commitment to providing outstanding customer service.
- Ability to successfully work collaboratively in a highly matrixed sales organization
All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional tasks and responsibilities.
Preferred Experience/Education/Skills:
- Typically requires a minimum of 2+ years of related experience with a sciences degree in Bioinformatics, Clinical data analysis, Molecular Biology, Genetics, or Biochemistry. Masters, MBA, or PhD a plus.
Location:
This is a remote role, with some periodic travel. Candidate is ideally within the US South sub-region but candidates will be applicable if they are within at most one time-zone difference from EST.
Relocation package is not included for this position.
The estimated base salary range for the Informatics Success Specialist role based in the United States of America is: $80,900 - $121,300. Should the level or location of the role change during the hiring process, the applicable base pay range may be updated accordingly. Compensation decisions are dependent on several factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications, location where the role is to be performed, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Additionally, all employees are eligible for one of our variable cash programs (bonus or commission) and eligible roles may receive equity as part of the compensation package. We offer a wide range of benefits as innovative as our work, including access to genomics sequencing, family planning, health/dental/vision, retirement benefits, and paid time off.
We are a company deeply rooted in belonging, promoting an inclusive environment where employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our mission. Built on a strong foundation, Illumina has always prioritized openness, collaboration, and seeking alternative perspectives to propel innovation in genomics. We are proud to confirm a zero-net gap in pay, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race. We also have several Employee Resource Groups (ERG) that deliver career development experiences, increase cultural awareness, and offer opportunities to engage in social responsibility. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information. Illumina conducts background checks on applicants for whom a conditional offer of employment has been made. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. The background check process and any decisions made as a result shall be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws. Illumina prohibits the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the application and interview process. If you require accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact accommodations@illumina.com. To learn more, visit: https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf. The position will be posted until a final candidate is selected or the requisition has a sufficient number of qualified applicants. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.