The Director of Customer Success leads the team to enhance customer experience, manage operations, drive product adoption, and ensure customer retention.
Summary of Job:
As Director of Customer Success, you will oversee a team of Customer Success Managers and Specialists, and will report to the VP of Revenue Operations. The Director of Customer Success will serve as a leader and advocate for the Success team, and will provide expert-level guidance and instruction in the areas of onboarding, product adoption, customer training, implementation, customer retention, support and escalations. You will have a deep understanding of our customer’s needs and identify ways our products can integrate into their day-to-day workflow.
Description of Job Duties:
- Manage the day-to-day operations, goal setting, performance management, and growth of a team of Customer Success Managers and Specialists
- Deliver exceptional customer experiences with proactive communication, applying the right internal resources, and effectively using our customer engagement model to meet business goals
- Quantify and define the business value generated by the customer's use of our products, at present and full potential
- Apply creative and strategic problem solving to provide best practices and innovative solutions that drive user adoption
- Conduct proactive account reviews to drive positive customer outcomes
- Build strong relationships with our customers to identify specific metrics of success, tracking and demonstrating progress on an ongoing basis
- Assist with issue escalations as needed, and manage the escalation through resolution
- Track accounts to identify churn risk and work to mitigate that risk
- Develop training documentation to help the Success team achieve retention benchmarks and deliver long-lasting ROI to our customers
- Represent the voice of the customer internally with leadership to provide input into every core product, marketing and sales process
- Other duties as assigned
Required Education, Experience and Special Skills:
- 5+ years experience in Customer Success, Account Management or transferable experience (preferably for a B2B, SaaS organization)
- Salesforce Experience in using tasks/reporting/accounts/assets
- You have a track record of delivering value to customers and managing customers through software deployment, driving adoption, growth, and retention
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Communicate to customers through phone calls/Video calls from escalations
- Ability to support team during non-business hours for critical customer issues
- Demonstrated organizational skills, proven ability to complete long-term goals and handle critical tasks and issues at the same time
- Passion for the growth, development, and success of a broader team
- Adaptable with the ability to learn new technologies, assess situations quickly, and look for smarter, better ways to achieve goals
- Ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively in a team environment
- Experience negotiating and navigating renewals and churn conversations
Preferred Skills or Experience:
- 7+ years experience in managing Customer Success teams preferred.
- 5+ Years of Salesforce experience is strongly preferred.
- Jira Experience.
Top Skills
JIRA
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