Sophos

Customer Success Manager

Sophos$80K — $84K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in customer success roles; background in customer support, sales, or business development is a plus.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to build positive business relationships.
  • Experience in translating customer needs into business or solution requirements.
  • Proven ability to act as a trusted advisor to senior executives and develop strategic account plans.
  • Excellent organizational skills to keep projects on track and deliver milestones.
  • Familiarity with recurring revenue sales models and renewal processes is beneficial.
  • Required experience in the cybersecurity field.

Responsibilities

  • Manage named accounts and ensure customer engagement and satisfaction throughout their lifecycle.
  • Establish and maintain relationship check-ins to address customer needs promptly.
  • Develop relationships with key buyers and influencers within customer accounts.
  • Collaborate with customers to create a success plan and understand their business objectives.
  • Deliver exceptional customer experiences to enhance cybersecurity outcomes and facilitate upsells.
  • Analyze customer analytics and KPIs to improve customer experience and solution optimization.
  • Conduct regular business reviews to demonstrate value and progress towards customer goals.
  • Coordinate activities across multiple teams to ensure smooth transitions and optimal customer experiences.
  • Drive business growth by maximizing value and reducing churn.
  • Serve as an escalation point for high-impact customer issues, engaging internal teams for swift resolution.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Remote work flexibility.
  • Target sales commission component alongside base salary.
Full Job Description
Role Summary

The Customer Success Organization focuses on our most strategic customers. The CSM will have a portfolio of accounts and lead the engagement throughout the customer lifecycle from deployment and adoption through renewal ensuring satisfaction and maximizing customer value. You'll leverage your expertise to guide our customers through their journey, maintain consistent engagement, ensuring they achieve their goals and derive maximum value from our products, as well as to identify opportunities for additional Sophos products and services.

What You Will Do

  • Manage named accounts accountable for engagement and satisfaction over the lifetime of the customer.
  • Establish key relationships with the customer, ensuring regular check-ins to understand, and address promptly, client needs and concerns.
  • Develop strong relationships with key buyers and influencers in customer accounts and leverage these during the lifetime of the customer.
  • Partner with the customer to build a joint plan for success, maintaining a detailed understanding of the customer's business to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction, engagement, and adoption of Sophos technology.
  • Deliver an outstanding customer experience to support our brand promise of delivering superior cybersecurity outcomes and to facilitate the cross-sell and upsell of services and products
  • Monitor customer analytics and KPIs to reinforce the value of the customer solution and identify areas to improve customer experience and optimize the solution.
  • Conduct regular business reviews, clearly articulating the specific value Sophos' services are delivering to the customer and progress on specific customer milestones and goals.
  • Coordinate activities of associated roles across onboarding, sales, product operations, services, and renewals to ensure smooth handoffs and optimal customer experience.
  • Sustain business growth and profitability by maximizing value, driving usage, adoption, upselling services, and reducing churn.
  • Act as an escalation point for high-impact customer issues when necessary, ensuring appropriate teams within Sophos are engaged for quick resolution
  • Work within the wider CSM team to implement scalable programs and process improvements to drive efficiency of internal customer success processes and improve customer experience.


What You Will Bring

  • 3+ years' experience in customer success roles, additional experience in customer support, sales, or business development is a plus.
  • Exceptional ability to communicate and foster positive business relationships, and comfortable being accountable for driving success with customers.
  • Experience in translating customer issues and needs into business or solution requirements.
  • Ability to be seen as a trusted advisor to senior executives in large organizations and able to build strategic account plans.
  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to establish milestones and keep project plans on task.
  • Understanding how organizations measure value and drive revenue with experience in recurring revenue sales models and renewal processes is an advantage.
  • Cybersecurity experience is required.


In Canada, the base salary for this role ranges from $80,000 to $84,000. In addition to the base salary, there's a component for target sales commissions alongside a comprehensive benefits package. A candidate's specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job-related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

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About Sophos

Sophos Group plc is a British based security software and hardware company. Sophos develops products for communication endpoint, encryption, network security, email security, mobile security and unified threat management. Sophos is primarily focused on providing security software to 100- to 5,000-seat organizations. While not a primary focus, Sophos also protects home users, through free and paid antivirus solutions intended to demonstrate product functionality. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Thoma Bravo in February 2020.
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