Senior Customer Success Manager
Description
What You'll Do
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Enterprise Relationship & Retention Management: Own the end-to-end relationship for a portfolio of strategic accounts, taking ultimate responsibility for customer retention, driving product adoption, and proactively mitigating churn.
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Commercial Growth & Expansion: Drive revenue growth by identifying upsell/cross-sell opportunities across products and services, leading contract negotiations, and managing renewal/expansion quotas.
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Executive Reviews & Strategy: Host and facilitate Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) with C-suite and key economic buyers, translating performance data into long-term strategic roadmaps.
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Churn Prevention & Save Motions: Manage the customer cancellation workflow by identifying at-risk accounts early, leading targeted commercial and technical save efforts, and conducting root-cause offboarding analysis.
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Escalation & Critical Issue Resolution: Serve as the primary escalation point for customer-impacting roadblocks, orchestrating cross-functional resolution alongside Product, Support, and Engineering.
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Product Education & Best Practices: Provide ongoing customer training, consult on optimal workflows, and deliver industry best practices to ensure continuous value realization throughout the client lifecycle.
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Voice of the Customer (VoC): Advocate internally for customer needs, sharing structured product feedback and actionable insights with Product and Go-to-Market teams.
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Team Mentorship & Onboarding: Assist in onboarding, training, and mentoring newer CSMs, serving as a first-line escalation and peer resource prior to management involvement.
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Process & Playbook Improvements: Partner with CS leadership to develop team-wide initiatives, refine customer-journey workflows, and optimize scalable CS playbooks.
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CRM Hygiene & Portfolio Tracking: Maintain meticulous account health scores, contact details, notes, and renewal pipelines in Salesforce to ensure complete data visibility.
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Evangelism & Industry Presence: Represent the company at customer-facing forums, webinars, and internal panels, staying attuned to market and industry trends to advise customers proactively.
What You'll Bring
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5+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or high-touch client services (preferably in a B2B SaaS environment).
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Proven experience managing commercial goals, carrying expansion/renewal quotas, and successfully upselling products and services to an existing customer base.
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Familiarity with SaaS contract negotiations, renewal-risk mitigation strategies, and objection handling to protect revenue and prevent churn.
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Exceptional product demonstration skills with the ability to showcase all product features, consult on creative solutions, and translate complex capabilities into client value.
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Hands-on experience working in Salesforce and customer ticketing/case-management tools such as Zendesk.
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High proficiency across business applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Workspace, and video conferencing platforms (Zoom/GoToMeeting).
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Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the polish and confidence to engage C-level executives and key stakeholders.
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Exceptional organizational, time-management, and prioritization skills, with rigorous follow-through to meet shifting deadlines and ensure customer expectations are consistently exceeded.
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Ability to think outside the box to navigate complex customer challenges, troubleshoot roadblocks, and architect win-win outcomes.
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Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, or a related field preferred (or equivalent practical experience).