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Customer Success
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Slack is on a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive. Culture is the North Star that guides how we work together and with our customers. Are you looking to build something greater than yourself? Do you want to work alongside some of the most dynamic people in the industry? If so, Slack just might be the place for you.
Slack has a positive, diverse, and encouraging culture—we look for people who are curious, innovative, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative.
What We Do
- Our Customer Success team advises and guides a wide variety of customers, ensuring they launch Slack successfully, adopt it widely and continuously gain business value from our products and services.
- We serve as the trusted point of contact for Slack’s strategic key customers across the customer lifecycle. Part coach, project manager, consultant and product specialist, our Slack Success Managers work closely with customers to discover their business needs and challenges and then mentor them on the best ways to use Slack to tackle them.
What you will be doing
- Empathize with every aspect of the customer experience, putting customers’ needs first.
- Throughout the customer lifecycle, you will be responsible for accelerating adoption, maturity and growth across Slack’s largest customers whilst ensuring each customer realises business value.
- You will work closely with our largest enterprise customers to understand the motivation, business drivers, strategic goals and desired business outcomes for your portfolio of customers.
- You will understand how they work, their business challenges and mentor customers on how to use Slack to communicate, collaborate and work more productively.
- Optimally prioritise your portfolio to deliver business outcomes, with an emphasis on both driving growth as well as securing retention.
- You will lead a cross-functional partnership across your named customer(s) and Slack and identify new ways our platform can differentiate them in the market.
- Maintain high levels of customer engagement and satisfaction with a focus on customer loyalty.
- You will craft joint customer success plans that include agreed upon scope, goals, timelines, customers, success metrics and build plans to overcome barriers to customer advocacy, expansion and/or retention.
- Facilitate workshops with customers on best known practices, including sponsorship, governance, operating model, adoption, use cases, internal Champions network and platform maturity.
- Facilitate Executive Business Reviews with economic decision makers and Slack executive sponsors, where we share back value realised, celebrate shared successes, and course correct where needed.
- Serve as a mentor and coach to others on the Customer Success Team.
- Contribute to the wider Customer Success practice, as well as our library of customer success assets (customer references, case studies) and thought leadership (methodology, point of view, white papers).
What you should have
- Relevant work experience in customer-facing customer success, account management or strategic consulting roles.
- SaaS experience preferred managing multiple $1M customers
- Consider program management a strength and have experience using joint sponsorship to execute against deadlines within a sophisticated organisation
- You have a passion for building trust and communicating with a broad range of partners: C-Suite, senior executives, business owners, Slack administrators, developers, and day-to-day users of the software
- Ability to cultivate and own VP+ executive sponsor relationships
- Proven track record of partnering with customers to deliver innovations for their businesses
- Diplomacy, tact, and poise under pressure when working through customer issues.
- Experience in an enterprise solution sales environment and ability to partner with Account Executives in their development and closure of sales opportunities is preferred
- Strong understanding of both the Slack platform and integrations with Salesforce products
About Slack Slack is a layer of the business technology stack that brings together people, data, and applications – a single place where people can effectively work together, find important information, and access hundreds of thousands of critical applications and services to do their best work. From global Fortune 100 companies to corner markets, businesses and teams of all kinds use Slack to bring the right people together with all the right information. For more information on how Slack makes teams better connected, visitslack.com.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Slack’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a cheerful and supportive place to work.
Come do the best work of your life here at Slack.
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