BlackLine

Principal Customer Success Manager

BlackLine • $142K — $178K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in accounting, auditing, process optimization, internal controls, financial analysis, or intercompany operations.
  • 5+ years in at least two domains: accounting, invoice-to-cash, intercompany operations, or consolidations.
  • 6+ years of customer-facing experience, internal or external.
  • 3+ years of hands-on BlackLine experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Economics, Information Systems, or Business Administration.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Customer Success Managers to develop adoption strategies that drive ACV expansion and reduce churn.
  • Motivate customers towards digital transformation by highlighting the benefits of optimized solutions.
  • Listen to customer needs and translate them into actionable BlackLine solutions.
  • Ensure customers are informed about available complimentary and billable services.
  • Deliver product expertise and optimization solutions through strategic use cases and video campaigns.
  • Analyze and document undefined customer processes to create tailored optimization solutions.
  • Provide consultative guidance to help customers realize the full value of the platform.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefit and wellness plans.
  • Short-term and long-term incentive programs based on eligibility.
Full Job Description
Make Your Mark:
The Customer Adoption Expert (ACE) plays a crucial role in ensuring our customers are successfully and effectively utilizing our products to achieve their business goals.
The primary focus is to support Customer Success Manager with their customer portfolio by increasing adoption and expansion of BlackLine, preventing attrition and churn, and continually enriching the customer experience.
ACE leverages their BlackLine expertise; their process optimization expertise; their accounting and internal controls, financial analysis, and/or intercompany operations experience; as well as their professional judgment, to provide leading practice optimization strategies, insights, and deliverables. These deliverables include original, innovative solutions for complex customer challenges, consulting services, process redesign and transformation, solution architecture specific to the customers' challenges, one to many thought leadership, executive touch points and strategy sessions, and recommendations to accelerate customer's digital transformation journey. Most importantly, ACE must be confident in the unknown as many customers require assistance in understanding their own processes before considering optimization with BlackLine. All facets of the ACE role are designed to drive customer adoption and a successful digital transformation journey.

You'll Get To:

Customer Strategy & Adoption
  • Partner with Customer Success Managers and Account Managers on adoption strategies that can also lead to ACV expansion and customer reference ability while mitigating churn.
  • Motivate customers to pursue digital transformation by articulating the value and benefits of optimized solutions.
  • Listen to customers to understand their needs and translate business challenges into actionable BlackLine solutions.
  • Ensure customers are aware of all complimentary and billable services available to support their journey.


Solution Design & Delivery
  • Deliver product expertise and optimization solutions to customers through strategic use cases and video adoption campaigns.
  • Analyze and document customer processes, even when undefined, to develop tailored optimization solutions based on leading practices.
  • Design original, innovative solutions for complex customer challenges where no standard solution currently exists.
  • Provide consultative guidance as customers pursue digital transformation, ensuring they realize the full value of the platform.
  • Enablement & Expertise
  • Maintain and elevate expert-level knowledge of BlackLine products, process optimization, accounting, internal controls, and other relevant domains.
  • Develop and deliver thought leadership to customers through how-to videos, webinars, and other one-to-many events.
  • Document process optimization use cases for internal use and knowledge sharing across BlackLine.
  • Provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to colleagues on complex process optimizations.Perform other duties as assigned.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.


What You'll Bring:

Experience:
  • 8+ years of combined experience in accounting, auditing, process optimization, internal controls, financial analysis, invoice-to-cash, or intercompany operations.
  • 5+ years of experience in at least two of the following domains: accounting, invoice-to-cash, intercompany operations, or consolidations.
  • 6+ years of customer-facing experience (internal or external).
  • 3+ years of hands-on BlackLine experience.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Economics, Information Systems, or Business Administration.

Skills & Abilities:
  • Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build lasting relationships.
  • Strategic focus with the ability to create and execute actionable plans.
  • Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and solve complex problems with incomplete information.
  • Excellent listening and empathy skills with a passion for solving customer challenges.
  • Strong verbal and written professional communication skills.
  • Highly process-oriented mindset with an aptitude for dissecting processes and delivering optimized solutions.
  • Strong presentation skills, including content creation and delivery in various settings (live, virtual, and recorded).


Preferred Qualifications
  • Advanced knowledge of BlackLine solutions and experience architecting solutions to optimize complex processes.
  • Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate business value and tie solutions to customer challenges.
  • Proven leadership skills and experience mentoring others.
  • Self-motivated, proactive team player with a natural curiosity and passion for learning.
  • Excellent prioritization and time management skills.
  • CPA, CIA, or other relevant professional certifications


Salary Range:
$142,000.00-$178,000.00

Pay Transparency Statement:

Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location.

In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.

We are committed to pay transparency and ensuring candidates have clear information about compensation expectations. For roles that include variable incentive components such as an Incentive Compensation Plan (ICP) or On-Target Earnings (OTE), the compensation structure may follow a split model - for example, a 50/50, 70/30, or 60/40 ratio between base salary and variable incentive.

About BlackLine

BlackLine, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. The company’s platform is designed to help midsize companies and large enterprises improve the accuracy and efficiency of their financial reporting. BlackLine’s software is used by accounting and finance teams to manage tasks such as journal entry preparation, account reconciliations, and intercompany accounting. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.
Learn more about BlackLine
Size
1,812 employees
Market Cap
$3.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$46.9 million
Founded
2001
5 Year Trend
+27.2%
Revenue
$351.7 million
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