Customer Success Manager

LinkedIn

$78K — $126K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Consulting, or similar fields
  • Experience in recruiting, learning, or sales effectiveness is preferred
  • Strong interpersonal skills for building authentic business relationships
  • Excellent time and project management skills
  • Experience in analyzing data to identify growth opportunities
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a Customer Champion and Advocate
  • Help customers realize value from their investment
  • Partner on customer retention and expansion
  • Act as a trusted advisor to end users and management
  • Utilize client metrics to boost customer engagement
  • Analyze engagement metrics and provide product education
  • Track customer activity in record systems
  • Identify churn risk and maintain customer engagement
  • Maintain a deep understanding of LinkedIn products
  • Interpret customer insights to improve products
  • Expedite technical and purchase-related escalations

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment supporting both remote and in-office work
  • Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
  • Opportunities for ongoing product education and training
  • Potential for annual performance bonuses and stock options
  • Comprehensive benefits package as per LinkedIn's fair compensation practices
Full Job Description
Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

The Customer Success Manager (CSM) partners closely with their assigned sales partners to ensure LinkedIn Customers achieve a significant return on investment and drive business success with their LinkedIn investment.

As a CSM you will be tasked with:
  • Serving as a Customer Champion and Advocate
  • Helping Customers realize value from their investment
  • Partnering on customer retention and expansion.

The CSM will partner with various stakeholders within assigned customers, to ensure effective user and product onboarding and engagement on LinkedIn products and solutions.

Responsibilities Include:
  • Advance personal journey with Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as this is a top priority for LinkedIn and many of its customers.
  • Partner with sales counterparts on prioritized customers to drive overall customer adoption, enhance customer success, and mitigate customer churn risk.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to the end users and their management to drive product adoption and ensure they leverage the solution to achieve agreed upon operational priorities, leading to full business value.
  • Utilize client usage and industry metrics to derive insights and use these to drive greater customer engagement and adoption.
  • Analyze current customer engagement metrics and leverage the Learning Center to provide new and ongoing product education options.
  • Track and record customer activity in a timely manner in systems of record, i.e., Dynamics.
  • Identify churn risk and maintain healthy customer engagement levels by identifying low utilization and providing solutions to further drive customer success.
  • Maintain a deep understanding of LinkedIn products to effectively guide customers on best practice.
  • Interpret customer insights to drive change in product and act as voice of customer to LinkedIn Product teams
  • Expedite technical and purchase-related escalations
  • Minimum travel may be required
  • While this role does not own quota associated with renewal or growth, you are accountable for the success of the partnership as measured through depth, frequency and quality of executive engagements, delivery of ROI as validated by the customer, and growth opportunities identified.


Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
  • 3+ years of experience in any of the following: Customer Success, Account Management/Sales, Consulting, Product Training and Enablement, Project Management, or Change Management


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in recruiting, applicable talent experience, learning, e-Learning, Organizational L&D, sales, account management, product enablement, and/or sales effectiveness.
  • Fundamental interpersonal skills, demonstrated by the ability to build authentic business relationships and effectively manage relational challenges
  • Fundamental organization, project management, and time management skills
  • Experience analyzing data, trends, and client information to identify product or growth opportunities in service of customer value
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including expertise in presenting to both small and large audiences
  • Fundamental understanding of Sales concepts and Software as a Service
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience


Suggested Skills:
  • Account Management
  • Customer Acumen
  • Prioritization
  • Problem Solving


LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $78,000 to 126,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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