Strategic Account Manager - Customer Success

November 7

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CloudZero

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Cloud Computing • DevOps • Site Reliability • FinDevOps • AWS

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💸 Finance

💰 Series A on 2021-03

Description

•About the Role: •CloudZero is looking for a Strategic Customer Success Manager to support the growth of our Customer Success organization and help drive best in class levels of adoption, expansion and retention for our customers. •A key focal point for the role will be driving a culture of delivering positive business outcomes and an incredible experience for our customers. •You are an accomplished Customer Success sales professional with experience in driving software adoption, value realization, and expansion with key named accounts in a B2B SaaS startup software environment. •You enjoy working hands-on with customers, speaking to Executive suites, negotiating contracts, but also have a passion for building and scaling teams. •You hold yourself accountable for delivering business results for the company and their customers and don’t shy away from quotas and goals resulting in exceptional Gross and Net numbers. •Your journey starts with our customers from the sales handoff and through post-sales onboarding and continues through renewal and expansion. •You will drive outcomes through responsibilities tied to: •Client Relationship Management: •Communicate the value proposition for the CloudZero platform and understand how it can be applied to address specific customer business outcomes •Ensure customers are getting value from the adoption of the CloudZero platform through kickoff to expansion •Maintain and create customers Joint Success Plans with TAMs, and customer stakeholders. •Drive Executive Business Reviews and be comfortable talking to CSuite Executives and other stakeholders. •Drive value realization events by partnering with the TAMs to ultimately drive product expansion. •Be a customer advocate to ensure the right priority and technical resources are being applied to maximize customer success activities, including working closely with Engineering and Product Management. •Partner closely with the Sales and Solution Engineers to support new sales, and to make sure customers being signed are set up for success. •Gross Retention •Meet with customers to drive their adoption and value realization, and to identify areas of improvement for our platform, organization, and process. •Analyze usage patterns and metrics to identify at-risk account and formulate proactive retention strategies •Own all strategic customer renewals, negotiations, and be able to forecast accurately on a recurring basis to achieve targets. •Net Retention •Own all revenue expansion within assigned accounts and keep an accurate forecast •Implement initiatives to reduce churn and increase the lifetime value of each customer. •Generate reports and insights to share with internal stakeholders, highlighting successes and areas for improvement.

Requirements

•10+ years’ experience both as an individual contributor and a leader in customer-facing organizations in a software company (ideally SaaS). •Experience with sales or account management work holding a quota deliverable role and exceeding metrics •Self learner and self starter, thriving in a fast and ever changing environment •Comfort in building and maintaining joint success plans, play books, and risk reports across geographically distributed and cross functional teams •Comfort level working in a metric-driven environment, including reporting on and improving business performance against a set of monthly KPIs and metrics. •Experience closing and negotiating business in an upsell motion at large enterprise customers •Strong client relationship skills and ability to interact at all levels of the organization. •Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills for both technical and business concepts. •AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification or higher certification (nice to have) •Masters Degree or MBA preferred (nice to have) •PMP Certification preferred (nice to have)