Insight Software is hiring a Remote Director, Customer Success
Job Description
- Partner with the General Managers and Product owners to drive overall retention and meet or exceed the defined retention goals.
- Conduct detailed analysis of the customer base to identify leading indicators for churn and expansion.
- Define and execute uplift strategies to optimize available price increases while minimizing customer churn.
- Build predictive models for maximizing customer retention including actively influencing product roadmap, services/support delivery, billing and collections improvements.
- Lead your team to deliver outstanding experiences that drive strong customer retention, expansion, adoption, and referrals.
- Organize and lead a retention forecasting process– ensuring the execution of timely renewals including risk management with best case and worst case forecasting scenarios.
- Increase customer lifetime value through success plans, customer satisfaction, and overall health scores.
- Master retention performance reporting to develop data-driven insights on customer behavior.
- Possess and display professional presence and credibility to function effectively both internally as well as at the highest level of customer contacts.
- Strategically balances customer needs with business goals.
- Drive a proactive NPS, at risk program, and other initiatives and measures to prevent customer attrition.
- Build effective processes and systems to scale customer negotiations around renewals while ensuring product retention targets are met.
- Manage a diverse set of renewal motions - spanning named accounts covered by CSMs, low touch uncovered accounts, partners, and self service customers.
- Drive a standardized, proactive outreach and reactive interventions for various points in the journey by identifying opportunities to encourage feedback loops and continuous improvement.
- Partner with peers to scale processes in on boarding, training, success management, support, and customer advocacy.
- Increase opportunities for expansion and up-sells by creating a bridge between Account Management, Direct Sales, Channel Sales, Professional Services, and Customer Success teams.
- Develop and share metrics to measure the effectiveness of Customer Success in meeting company and team goals.
- Track, analyze, and report on Customer Success metrics across the organization.
- Be a customer champion internally.
Achievements/Goals *Must Display in the 1st 6 months:
- Work Ethic – operate in a fast-paced environment with a focus on achieving results.
- Engaging/Executive Presence – quickly establish rapport and build relationships with partners and communicate successfully with clients. Ability to elevate and lead the conversation with Sr Executive from insightsoftware and our customers.
- Teamwork – work cross-functionally to achieve team and individual goals.
- Communication – communicate effectively with customers and internal cross-functional partners, creating promoters at every touch point.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of management experience in customer success – including direct experience as a 2nd level manager for more than 1 year.
- Experience integrating acquired companies and teams into success model
- Experience with retention forecasting and management of a monthly process with a track record for accuracy and overachievement
- Experience segmenting customers, providing different levels of outreach, from tech touch to personalized interaction
- Experience in both on-prem and cloud-based success models
- Strong communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent experience
- Experience in technical or commercial management of software support services, software development, or customer care around IT/Application services is highly preferred
- Ability to travel up to 25%
Apply for this job