Senior Customer Success Manager
As a Senior Customer Success Manager (CSM), you’ll be the key relationship manager for a book of business holding new and existing complex hosting and colocation customers. Ultimately responsible for customer satisfaction and retention, you’ll achieve this through a variety of touchpoints and activities across the entire customer lifecycle. You’ll work closely with day-to-day personnel up through decision makers and executive-level contacts. Internally, you’ll collaborate cross-departmentally with sales, support, marketing, engineering, implementation, and more to ensure our customers achieve success.
Responsibilities
- Provide oversight and accountability for success during the onboarding phase of new customers as well as existing customers leveraging new services.
- Manage a book of business containing advanced customer environments and marquee relationships.
- Uncover and document desired customer outcomes for success plan creation.
- Train customers on Flexential support tools.
- Overall responsibility for customer retention.
- Understand and advise customers on all relevant Flexential solutions relevant to their needs, including facilitating additional conversations with internal subject-matter experts (SMEs).
- Keep relevant Flexential departments and leaders informed of all customer health and risk concerns, including updating customer health scores and documenting churn forecasts.
- Facilitate problem resolution as the first level of escalation for unresolved issues, including billing and technical support.
- Maintain regular and proactive contact with customers through value-added email outreaches, calls, and/or face-to-face meetings.
- Effectively leverage internal technology to manage touchpoints, view customer health, and overall management of your book of business.
- Conduct regular executive business reviews with customers, including preparing and presenting content appropriate for C-level contacts.
- Uncover additional customer needs and work with sales and solution engineers to appropriately solution sell.
- Assist, direct, and maintain open communication with key individuals within the company, including sales, marketing, engineering, accounting, and operations.
- Act as a liaison for your customers on all questions—technical, billing, sales, or other.
- Guide and advise the customer through processes rather than letting the customer manage Flexential.
- Perform other duties as required and assigned.
Requirements
- 2-3 years of Customer Success experience within a B2B technology organization.
- Experience interacting with customers at all levels, including C-Suite.
- Demonstrated ability to build and develop relationships.
- Strong written, oral, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated technical aptitude and attention to detail.
- Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts and issues to all levels.
- Experience with CRM systems.
- Demonstrated time management ability.
- Self-directed and self-motivated to problem-solve.
- A willingness to go the extra mile for customers and develop strong relationships.
- Ability to adapt and thrive in a rapidly growing business.
- Proficiency with MS Office tools.
- General statistical analysis and ability to communicate metrics to the business.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2-3 years of experience directly managing Fortune 1000 customers (strongly preferred).
- Prior experience in Cloud, Managed Services, or Colocation.
- Understanding of VMware applications.
- Understanding of DRaaS and BaaS solutions.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
- Moderate or advanced keyboard usage.
Pay
Annualized salary range offered for this position is estimated to be $84,000 - $94,000, depending on experience, location, and qualifications. This role is also eligible for commission, with an expected annual commission of $25,000 based on achievement of targets and other performance indicators.
Benefits
- Medical, Telehealth, Dental, and Vision coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
- Life and AD&D insurance.
- Short-Term and Long-Term disability coverage.
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO).
- Leave of Absence options.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Wellness Program.
- Rewards and Recognition Program.
Benefits are subject to change at the Company's discretion.