Program Manager

Pearson; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Customer Program Manager to enhance customer success with innovative strategies. In this pivotal role, you will analyze data to drive operational efficiency and effectiveness, create impactful dashboards, and leverage AI to elevate the customer experience. This position offers the chance to shape processes and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Join a passionate team dedicated to helping learners achieve their goals and enjoy a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with a focus on data-driven decision making.
• Experience in customer success and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Create dashboards and reports to track team performance and customer success.
• Manage Customer Success Platform and improve processes for efficiency.

Skills

Data Analysis

Customer Success Management

AI Utilization

Operational Efficiency

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Salesforce

Zendesk

Pendo

Microsoft Office

Snowflake

Productboard

Skilljar

Catalyst

Job description

Job Summary: As Customer Program Manager (CPM), you play a crucial role in ensuring our customers achieve success with Pearson’s WFS products by collecting, managing and analyzing data to improve customer success operational efficiency and effectiveness. Your focus will be creating strategic programs that accelerate customer adoption of our products, tracking their success, and managing the operational needs of the Customer Success team while contributing to a culture of operational excellence.

This is an individual contributor role.

What You Will Do:

Customer Success Organization

1. Create and maintain dashboards, views, and reports allowing insights to team performance and impact against our objectives.
2. Leverage AI to elevate post-sales customer experience and help customers adopt their solutions while improving customer success effectiveness and efficiency.
3. Analyze data, recommend improvements, and communicate efficiency and effectiveness of CS programs to CS leadership.

Process

1. Provide strategic direction on leveraging systems and tools to drive the business reporting and insights, regularly collect feedback from CS leaders and update playbooks and reporting as processes change.
2. Standardize customer journey across all customer types, automating wherever possible.
3. Ongoing communication, enablement, and governance of existing and new processes that impact CS organization, customers, and cross-functional partners (sales, product, marketing, finance).
4. Continuously improve existing low and high touch motions, journeys, and calls to action based on customer segment.

Systems

1. Manage our Customer Success Platform, including data management, building playbooks, dashboards, and training material.
2. Connect external systems and data sources to CRM tool with vision of creating a single source truth for the Customer Success organization.
3. Establish the basis for AI, develop content libraries that can be aligned with data.
4. Tech stack: Catalyst, Salesforce, Pendo, Zendesk, Productboard, Skilljar, Microsoft Office, Snowflake.

What Will Set You Up for Success:

1. A self-starter, you will have the opportunity to build this role and define new practices and processes.
2. Experimental, you love to a/b test new strategies to drive customer adoption.
3. Operationally minded, you enjoy finding new ways to improve inefficiencies and automate processes.
4. Data-driven, you love to look at the data to drive your decision-making processes.
5. Passionate about innovating new customer experiences.
6. Creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, and well-organized.
7. Ability to embrace the mentality of continuous improvement and actively contribute to the team process and procedure.
8. Flexible and willing to adapt processes, workflows, and customer management in an ever-changing environment.
9. Are coachable and receptive to feedback.
10. Willing to grow with amazing people who laugh a lot, own our mistakes, strive to be better, are open to feedback, and help each other.
11. A commitment to helping learners achieve their goals.

Key projects may include: establishing a process for measuring playbook effectiveness, establishing a process to capture and maintain key contacts, evaluating customer health scores, optimizing the sales-handoff process, identifying and integrating data across platforms, developing and maintaining customer success process documentation.

About your Benefits and Rewards

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, New York State, New York City, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:

The full-time salary range is between $90k and $110k annually.

Here are the benefits we offer here.

Who we are:

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing [e-mail].

Job: PROJECT/PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT

Organization: Enterprise Learning & Skills

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Remote

Req ID: 19096