Customer Success Manager, Senior Manager (Public Sector)

Salesforce; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading CRM company in McLean, Virginia is seeking a Senior Customer Success Manager to act as a trusted advisor for customer organizations. You'll be responsible for optimizing customer experience on the Salesforce platform and cultivating strong executive relationships to drive success. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in Technical Customer Success, exceptional communication skills, and knowledge of Salesforce products. This role may involve occasional travel and after-hour coverage.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10-15+ years of work experience in Technical Customer Success or similar fields.
• 4+ years' experience in management consulting services.
• Skills for analyzing technical concepts and translating them into business terms.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single point of customer accountability for Signature deliverables.
• Cultivate stakeholder relationships with customer's IT and executive leadership.
• Help customers achieve business goals on the Salesforce platform.

Skills

Technical Customer Success

Salesforce CRM

Project leadership

Exceptional communication skills

Tools

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Salesforce Service Cloud

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category: Customer Success

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

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For our customers who wish to get the most value out of Salesforce with enterprise and rapid support, delivered by our most skilled experts, they purchase our Signature Success Plan. When you have Signature, you unlock our deepest level of partnership, most skilled expertise, and tools to stay agile.

Job Description

As a Senior Customer Success Manager (CSM), you will serve as a named resource and partner for Salesforce's customer organizations. You are a trusted advisor, forging deep relationships with your customers and account teams and maintaining an awareness of key events, needs, potential risks, and value drivers. With a continual focus on your customers' business needs, you will help to improve their overall technical and operational health, helping them to realize the maximum value out of their Salesforce investment. You will act as a point of contact for any major customer incidents, being responsible for managing expectations and communications through the resolution of such incidents.

These activities will enable you to proactively set the customer up for success through optimization of the platform, with special care during critically important peak events. This will require deep technical knowledge of the Salesforce platform, and the ability to work closely across internal and external teams to provide a unified Signature experience.

Your Impact

• Serve as the single point of customer accountability responsible for the orchestration of all Signature deliverables, experience, renewal, and expansion.
• Cultivate and maintain stakeholder relationships with the customer's IT and business executive leadership, sponsors, and decision-makers within customer organizations that have purchased Signature.
• Help your customers achieve their business goals and outcomes on the Salesforce platform by:
• Coordinating the completion of the Signature Success catalog of services as required for your customer.
• Providing timely, proactive Salesforce feature guidance based on the areas of interest for your customer.
• Acting as an advisor to your customers for the adoption of new features of Salesforce's annual release schedules and identifying potential challenges and risks to your customer's implementation.

• Communicate the value of Signature Success. Be accountable for ensuring all collaborators understand this value so that customers continue to renew Signature Success.
• Act as an advocate for customers during the triage and resolution of high-severity cases to assist with the timely resolution of these issues.
• The CSM may be required for occasional travel to customer sites and may need to be available for some after-hour or weekend coverage, depending on the customer's need.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum of 10-15+ years of work experience in one or more of the following: Technical Customer Success, Salesforce CRM or SaaS platform use, project leadership, technology solutions development, technical solutions, and/or solutions architecture.
• Experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud and/or a relevant competing platform.
• 4+ years' experience in management consulting services,
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills with demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level.
• Skills for analyzing technical concepts and translating them into business terms and mapping business requirements into technical features.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts in business-friendly terms to customers, then explain customer needs to internal partners.
• Knowledge of software development process and design methodologies.
• Experience leading efforts of cross-functional teams to facilitate the resolution or disposition of customer needs or projects.

Preferred Requirements

• Salesforce product certifications are a plus (AI Associate, Administrator, Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, Sales Cloud Consultant, and Service Cloud Consultant).
• Knowledge of Salesforce products and features, capabilities, best use, and how to deploy.
• Experience working with Enterprise-level customers.

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment.