Director of Customer Success Management, Salesforce

$185.5-268.9k

Salesforce
Senior and Expert level
Chicago
Salesforce

World's leading CRM provider

Be an early applicant

Salesforce

World's leading CRM provider

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Be an early applicant

$185.5-268.9k

Salesforce
Senior and Expert level
Chicago

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Company mission

To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.

Role

Who you are

  • Possess a minimum of 5+ years in leadership roles with direct experience in customer success and team management
  • Industries, communicating insights to Territory & OU leaders
  • As a Territory or Cloud Manager, monitor key performance indicators across Customer Health, Salesforce Loyalty, Signature Delivery and Attrition/Growth
  • Exhibit strong critical thinking and ability to use data and insights to identify trends and risks
  • Entrepreneurial and "lead from the front". You’re a proven leader and motivator, with deep experience leading technical organizations. You drive results and outcomes while balancing empathy and a people-first culture
  • You have a strong emotional intelligence for customers and deliver customer support like you expect to receive it; with excellence
  • You know what to say and more importantly, how to say it. You have demonstrable experience building strong internal and external relations, and influence outcomes and leverage relationships
  • Familiarity with Salesforce's product offerings, services, and the larger industry landscape

Desirable

  • Experience with Salesforce Sales, Service and Financial Services Cloud
  • Salesforce product certifications are a plus (AI Associate, Administrator
  • Stay informed on market trends, risks, and opportunities specific to customers and Administrator, Platform App Builder, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, B2C Commerce Developer, Marketing Cloud: Administrator, Consultant, Email Specialist, Engagement Consultant)
  • Knowledge of Salesforce products and features, capabilities, best use, and how to deploy
  • Experience working with Enterprise-level customers

What the job involves

  • We are looking for a leader to join our Account Success team. This role leads the strategy for Signature Success Plan renewals and growth across teams, aligning closely with Territory
  • Interview, onboard, mentor, and promote successful Customer Success Managers (CSMs)
  • Lead a team of 8-12 CSMs, fostering growth and excellence
  • Address and resolve customer blocking issues as a leader representing Salesforce
  • Implement strategies for Signature Success Plan renewals across teams
  • Work closely with peers and selling partners on capacity planning for Signature obligations
  • Align customer allocations with Signature coverage, manage team-based allocations, and synchronize additional cloud resources as needed
  • Lead oversight on critical customer issues, working across Support, Critical Incident Center, and Engineering until resolution is achieved
  • Build strong multi-functional working relationships with Solutions, Sales, Engineering, and Product Management
  • Serve as Director level escalation and pursue each critical issue as an opportunity to drive the customer relationship
  • Track and identify frequently occurring, high impact issues and communicate through appropriate channels for resolution
  • Develop strategies to improve the customer experience, team performance, morale, and cohesion with other internal teams
  • Collaborate on talent retention strategies, encompassing career pathing, promotions, and ongoing training
  • Ensure teams are proficient in New Product Introductions (NPI) and New Service Introductions (NSI) initiatives
  • Stay informed on market trends, risks, and opportunities specific to customers and industries, communicating insights to Territory & OU leaders
  • As a Territory or Cloud Manager, monitor key performance indicators across Customer Health, Salesforce Loyalty, Signature Delivery and Attrition/Growth
  • We expect our next Director, Customer Success Manager to exhibit each of these characteristics:
  • Get it Done – Drives processes that scale. Challenges the organization to think with a beginner’s mind and act efficiently to achieve the desired outcome. Calm, organized, positive, and can-do attitude. Results-driven, tenacious, drive to succeed in a fast-paced environment
  • Courageous Communicator – Superb interpersonal skills including a demonstrated ability to communicate, present, and influence credibly and effectively at all levels in an organization including executive and C-level. Tailors message and style to the audience, uses storytelling to deliver effective presentations and messages
  • Motivate and Champion – Invests in and tries new things in the talent and career development of our people. Holds self and team accountable to expectations
  • Salesforce Smart – Explains the vision and “the why” behind changes. Keeps teams focused and moving forward, even in an absence of concrete information, by rallying them around a vision
  • Win as a Team – Puts the collective benefit of the company first. Brings teams together to take-on shared goals. Seeks and embraces different points of view and experiences to unlock the collective potential of people across Salesforce

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Insights

Top investors

-8% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jun 2001

$46.9m

SERIES D

Nov 1999

$13.2m

SERIES C

Total funding: $64.5m

Our take

Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.

By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.

Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.

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