Job Description
Title: Senior Customer Success Manager
Location: Remote – Anywhere in the US
About Heap
Heap offers a smarter way to build digital products. With comprehensive data collection and structured processes, Heap helps Product Managers understand their users, make data-driven decisions, and craft delightful digital experiences. We enable customers like Twilio, Casper, and WeWork to understand their millionth customer as well as they understood their first. Check out how we help our customers win!
About Our Customer Success team
As a Heap Senior Customer Success Manager, you will manage day-to-day operational and long term business relationships with Heap’s Mid-Market customers. The CSM promotes adoption of Heap’s products and services and positions Heap to meet the current and future business requirements of our customers. The CSM will also play a critical role in managing customer escalations and proactively communicating upcoming product changes and enhancements. Cultivating key customers as Heap advocates in the Heap and product analytics community is a requirement for this role.
The CSM will have excellent working relationships with other teams at Heap who will be active within their accounts. Specifically, strong partnership with the Sales, Solutions, Customer Education, Professional Services, Marketing, Partnerships, and Product teams will be key to this role. The CSM is an advocate for their customer within Heap and will be a professional representative at all times in this post-sale role.
The keys to success in this role are your ability to facilitate meetings with all levels in a customer organization, troubleshooting to identify gaps between best practice and actual usage of Heap, and clearly communicating recommendations that enable the customer to fully adopt Heap in order to grow their business by leveraging product analytics insights. Join us to help our customers win!
Responsibilities:
Own leading and lagging indicators of success.
- Retain and grow the revenue for existing Heap customers, owning the net retention rate of your customer base.
- Own product adoption metrics, value plan, and relationship plan for your customers.
- Maintain high NPS scores for both implementation and account satisfaction.
Achieve operational excellence.
- Ensure all communication and activities with assigned customers are documented in CRM (Salesforce) and/or CS platform (Catalyst).
- Use Heap effectively to measure customer product KPIs and run adoption analyses for customers.
- Continuously measure and communicate key metrics to peers and leadership.
Own the entire customer journey.
- Support customers coming out of implementation and launch validation, and assist with accelerating breadth of adoption and positive business outcomes for the customer and Heap.
- Standardize CSM customer engagement and measure its impact at each stage of the customer lifecycle.
- Conduct quarterly business reviews to document success to date, review adoption and usage metrics, align on executive priorities, provide adoption and usage recommendations & review Heap product roadmap.
- Enroll customers in new beta programs and ensure customer feedback informs our product roadmap.
- Ensure satisfactory resolution of Heap related technical issues, including coordination of cross-departmental Heap resources (e.g. Support,
- Professional Services engagements).
- Help orchestrate renewal processes with customers and engage AEs for expansion opportunities.
Deliver business value.
- Work with customers to develop a value and success plan that outlines how Heap adoption will address their required capabilities needed to achieve positive business outcomes both immediately and in the future.
- Drive adoption through innovation, product demonstration and customer alignment.
- Recommend solutions to changing client requirements and emergent problems by carefully identifying and assessing all risks and benefits of possible approaches.
- Measure, communicate and demonstrate ROI to your customers in check-ins and customer quarterly business reviews.
Become a trusted advisor on product analytics.
- Have complete context on our product and become an expert in the larger analytics space.
- Educate our customers on the value and associated positive business outcomes of product analytics.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to a wide variety of audiences: product managers, marketers, customer success managers, data scientists, engineers, and C-level executives.
Form close relationships with our customers.
- Serve as the trusted advisor for key customer champions and executives including C-levels.
- Cultivate relationships with key customer roles from functional owners to senior management.
Advocate for the best customer experience.
- Serve as the customer’s advocate to other Heap resources in Product, Support, Professional Services, Marketing, & Partnerships.
- Serve as the voice of the customer internally at Heap by providing customer feedback to product, creating customer case studies with Marketing, facilitating referrals for technical or services partnerships, or coordinating customer referrals for sales.
Expand existing customers.
- Partner with Account Executives to grow Heap revenue via upsells while providing an ideal customer experience.
- Partner on the account plan and whitespace expansion opportunities with Account Executive with clear objectives, requirements, and action plan, that delineates roles, responsibilities, and target timelines with the aim of driving value with their current contract with Heap.
Constantly iterate on our process.
- Be part of a growing team at Heap and help inform our approach to our customer lifecycle processes.
- Contribute to our team growth by creating new content, playbooks, and processes for peers to use as winning strategies.
Skills & Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in a consultative customer facing role (management consulting, account management, customer success management, etc.) with an enterprise software or SaaS organization
- Proven track record of leading customer engagements resulting in increased adoption, customer satisfaction, net retention, and sales partnership
- Knowledge of the digital analytics market and customer data infrastructure
- Strong operational discipline with an analytical, process-oriented mindset and a data-based approach to decision making and assessment
- Strong ability to identify customer needs, scope technical requirements, shepherd clients through change management, and make changes to realize business value.
- Proven ability to present technical concepts effectively to diverse stakeholder groups
- Outstanding presentation development and delivery skills, with the ability to speak to end users and C-Level executives
- Experience working with a cross functionally and geographically dispersed team and customer base
- Diplomacy, tact, and poise under pressure when working through customer issues
- Ability to sell and support new product offerings and professional services offerings
- Bachelor’s Degree (Bonus: computer science or advanced degree)
- Experience with CS and CRM tools (Salesforce, Gainsight, etc.)
- (Bonus) Experience with HTML, CSS, JS, SQL
- (Bonus) Experience working with integrating data using front-end and server-side APIs
- (Bonus) Experience in analytics tools or warehouses (Looker, Tableau, Snowflake, Redshift, etc.)
- (Bonus) Domain expertise in SaaS, Financial services and/or Ecommerce (B2B and/or B2C)