OpenText

Lead Cloud Service Manager

OpenText • $101K — $151K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent
  • 5-10+ years of experience in customer ownership roles (customer success, consulting, sales, account management) in a technology or SaaS environment
  • Strong client focus with the ability to engage at a senior management level
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence for building long-term relationships
  • Willingness to work overtime and travel as needed (estimated 15%)

Responsibilities

  • Oversee overall success management of assigned customer accounts, including regular status calls and reporting
  • Provide customers and management with updates on timelines, milestones, and overall status
  • Document business vision and success metrics into a Customer Success Plan
  • Strategically manage customer relationships to exceed expectations and encourage referenceability
  • Facilitate communication between teams to resolve customer issues and restore stability
  • Conduct expert incident and problem management for critical customer issues

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
  • Opportunities for variable and commission compensation
  • Vacation entitlement and paid time off
Full Job Description
YOUR IMPACT
A Customer Success Manager (CSM) at OpenText is more than a relationship management role. As the primary owner of assigned Cloud Managed Services accounts, you will serve as a trusted advisor, helping customers achieve their business objectives while ensuring operational health, customer satisfaction, and maximum return on their OpenText Cloud Managed Services investment.

WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS

Customer Management:
• Overseeing overall success management of the customer which includes weekly status calls, monthly SLA reporting, site visits and business reviews, issue tracking, cross functional communication with other OT teams (i.e., support, sales, product management, etc.).
• Provide customers and internal management with regular reports and status updates, including timelines, milestones, risks, issues, decision and overall status.

Strategic Planning:
• Ability to elicit and document business vision, short and long-terms goals and business objectives, and success metrics into a Customer Success Plan and establish a Success program governance model to track outcomes.
• Strategically manage customers. Delight and exceed customer expectations and proactively nurture customer to be referenceable.

Escalation Management:
• Facilitate communications between various teams when needed to restore customer wellness and stability.
• Provides expert incident and problem management for high impact and critical customer issues and ensures root-cause analysis is conducted and a corrective action plan is followed through with any learning applied for future benefit.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED
• Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent
• Professional Experience of 5-10+ years' in customer ownership roles (customer success, consulting, sales, account management preferably in a technology, SW deployment, SaaS environment/industry
• Strong client focus - ability to operate at a senior manager level
• Excel at building long-term internal and external relationships, great interpersonal skills, and emotional intelligence. Confidence to converse with senior decision-makers. Ability to educate and reframe customer thinking, via a mix of data and wider insights, to ensure a successful outcome.
• Solid work ethic with a willingness to work overtime
• Willingness to travel as needed (estimated 15%)

ONE LAST THING:
OpenText is more than just a corporation, it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned

Compensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. A summary of those benefits can be found on our Why Join Us page. As you move through the hiring process, we're happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

Salary Range: $101,000 - $151,600; Depending on the candidate's education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.

California Residents: The pay range above is a reasonable estimate of salary based on pay scale, candidate experience, skills, and education. In addition to the comprehensive benefits noted above, the role may be eligible for bonus or commissions.

About OpenText

OpenText Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management software. The company is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. OpenText software applications manage content or unstructured data for large companies, government agencies, and professional service firms. OpenText aims to help customers digitize their operations and optimize their information management processes. The company has made several acquisitions over the years to expand its product offerings and customer base. OpenText has a global presence with offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Learn more about OpenText
Size
14,300 employees
Market Cap
$7.8 billion
Industry
Founded
1991
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+8.8%
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