Manage the India Customer Success organization as a hands-on leader, building collaborative team culture and driving measurable positive business outcomes (customer satisfaction, adoption, retention and expansion)
Manage, coach, and mentor a team of Customer Success Managers and Customer Solutions Engineers
Partner with engineering, product, enablement, sales and technical support teams to ensure positive customer outcomes
Execute and improve an ongoing program for measuring Customer Satisfaction
Define and mature an organizational structure for scale without sacrificing excellence in customer support
Hire and nurture talent to meet demands of a rapidly evolving business and customer base
Shape Customer Success culture to drive customer satisfaction
Prioritize and funnel customer feedback to Customer Experience and Product Management to optimize the whole service experience
Engage customers from Onboarding to Adoption to Value Realization and consult across multiple client levels
Requirements
Global leader with 10 years in SaaS/Cloud companies and over 5 years in a Customer Success leadership role is essential
Comfortable consulting and negotiating across multiple client levels and possess a solid foundation and understanding of their business objectives
Proven leader and motivator with deep experience building and leading growing customer success organizations
Entrepreneurial, unafraid to roll-up sleeves, get it done and "lead from the front"
Experience serving in a CSP (Cloud Service Platform), Security and Networking company (huge plus)
Experience in organizations with a complex, strategic sale where best practices and technology define a customer’s success
Significant experience interfacing and working with large strategic enterprise customers
Experience managing NPS and Dollar-based Net Retention (DNR) in a high-growth environment
Has driven organizations through rapid growth and global expansion at scale, and understands the criticality of operational excellence
Excellent people management skills; high empathy and consideration for team morale and individual career progression
Interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively navigate and mediate conflict and foster honest dialog in difficult conversations
Proven effectiveness at leading and facilitating executive meetings and workshops