Senior Customer Success Manager

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Paris, France · Customer Experience

Senior Customer Success Manager at Braze, a marketing technology company. The role focuses on client renewals, retention, and driving feature adoption by acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to customers. Responsibilities include building customer relationships, analyzing product usage, advocating for customers, and coordinating with internal teams. Requires strong communication, technical domain knowledge in SaaS, Mobile, APIs, Marketing Automation, Direct Marketing, Analytics, or Programming, and experience in customer success or related roles.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and assume ultimate responsibility for client renewals, retention and net retention targets for your customers
  2. Be your customers’ main point of contact and trusted advisor at Braze
  3. Partner with Account Executives, taking a lead role to ensure excellent customer experience and commercial alignment
  4. Drive feature adoption by building a shared Success Plan with your customers, providing strategic guidance, enablement, and day-to-day advice to help them hit their objectives with Braze
  5. Drive customer advocacy by building strong customer relationships and creating mutual value for your customers and Braze

Skills

Required

  • Customer renewals and retention
  • Customer relationship management
  • Strategic guidance and enablement
  • Product adoption
  • Customer advocacy
  • Product usage analysis
  • Customer feedback synthesis
  • Product training
  • Upselling
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Mentorship
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal)
  • Follow-up skills
  • Team player
  • Time management
  • Project management experience
  • Technical domain knowledge (SaaS, Mobile, APIs, Marketing Automation, Direct Marketing, Analytics, or Programming)
  • English and French fluency

Nice to have

  • PMP or Agile certifications

What the JD emphasized

  • ultimate responsibility for client renewals, retention and net retention targets
  • main point of contact and trusted advisor
  • ensure excellent customer experience and commercial alignment
  • building a shared Success Plan
  • strategic guidance, enablement, and day-to-day advice
  • building strong customer relationships
  • creating mutual value
  • Proactively analyze your customer product usage
  • identify opportunities and risks to account health
  • Maintain ongoing regular contact
  • Advocate for your customers
  • synthesizing customer product feedback
  • contribute to product development
  • Provide continuing education for customers
  • maximize product usage
  • identifying new or unused Braze features
  • represent an upsell opportunity
  • dedicated contact for strategy, product training inquiries, and non-technical support
  • coordinate with other Braze teams
  • ensure your customers receive the support they need simply and seamlessly
  • seamlessly transition clients from onboarding to ongoing activity
  • Act as a point of escalation for customers
  • Provide mentorship to junior colleagues
  • spend time onsite with customers
  • travel [internationally]
  • handle other reasonable responsibilities commensurate with the role
  • established customer success professional
  • satisfaction in helping your customers achieve great things
  • helping your colleagues grow
  • excellent track record in customer success or a related role
  • seeking to progress your career
  • working with agile, technology savvy scale customers
  • excellent communicator
  • exemplary written and verbal communication skills
  • unparalleled follow up skills
  • Clients and colleagues have the impression that you listen and understand the strategic problems they are trying to solve
  • excited by working with medium and large technology companies who move fast
  • build new customer experiences quickly
  • known for being a “team player.”
  • build great relationships with colleagues and customers
  • high level of intellectual curiosity
  • see opportunity and growth in learning more about what you do and how it impacts others
  • proven track record successfully managing complex, high value accounts or projects
  • sophisticated clients, multiple stakeholders, and competing priorities
  • excellent time management skills
  • significant project management experience
  • formal certifications (PMP, Agile, etc)
  • strong technical domain knowledge
  • SaaS, Mobile, APIs, Marketing Automation, Direct Marketing, Analytics or Programming (HTML etc)
  • 3-6 years relevant experience in a related area
  • Onboarding, Customer Success, Implementations or Project Management
  • perfectly speak English and French