Senior Customer Success Manager

HootSuite Media, Inc.$80K — $112K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8 years of customer-facing/account management experience in SaaS, showcasing successful customer portfolio management.
  • Solid understanding of social media and its business applications.
  • Ability to learn new technologies quickly and communicate software features simply.
  • Proactive customer service mindset, focused on meeting customer needs.
  • Strong collaboration skills, working effectively with teams to achieve shared results.
  • Effective communicator, both in writing and verbally, with good active listening skills.
  • Strong problem-solving abilities, using systematic approaches to address complex issues.

Responsibilities

  • Lead daily relationship management for high-value Fortune 1000 clients, guiding their social media success.
  • Build and maintain influential and trust-based relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
  • Demonstrate high expertise in Hootsuite products and industry trends to enhance customer success.
  • Engage in a multi-threaded approach for customer interactions, focusing on onboarding and ongoing success reviews.
  • Monitor account health, providing strategies for advancing social media effectiveness and product adoption.
  • Collaborate with Account Managers to create strategies for account expansion and client success.
  • Advocate for customer feedback to influence product development and improve client experiences.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Engagement in internal training, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
  • A culture that promotes teamwork and creativity in problem-solving.
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Senior Customer Success Manager to support high-value customers in the assigned vertical by providing the tools and resources to achieve their business goals on social media. In this role, you'll build, cultivate, and maintain influential relationships with your customers by leveraging your customer success experience and demonstrating expert-level competency in Hootsuite's product, industry trends and best practices. You will drive business outcomes for your customers while being accountable for best-in-class user adoption, revenue retention and growth, and customer advocacy, guiding customers through their journey of social maturity. You will consistently and proactively review, refine and re-validate plans to ensure the customer gains full value from the product suite, the partnership, Hootsuite and social media as a channel. You will report to the Senior Manager, Customer Success.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
  • Lead day to day relationship management for a book of business of high-value customers (Fortune 1000 sized businesses); guide customers to success on their social journey with Hootsuite's Enterprise and partner products.
  • Build and maintain influential relationships with customers with highly complex use cases in the assigned vertical(s), from end users through to executive sponsors, ensuring they have a consistent, best-in-class experience in every interaction.
  • Cultivate and demonstrate a high level of expertise in Hootsuite's products, social media and your assigned vertical(s) by keeping up with industry trends and best practices.
  • Engage with customers in your assigned vertical(s) in a high-touch, multi-threaded approach, including ensuring successful onboarding, defining Mutual Account Plans with customers, leading success reviews, value workshops, and regular check-ins to drive engagement and ensure Hoosuite is delivering against customer's goals and outcomes according to the success plan.
  • Actively monitor account health and adoption throughout the full duration of the customer relationship; provide guidance on how customers can advance their social strategies; intervene with adoption strategies that showcase how customers can
    enhance their workflows and better use our products; leverage value / industry specific workshops, trends, and social expertise to increase customer's social maturity.
  • Collaborate with Account Manager to develop account strategies and identify qualified leads (CSQL) for account expansion.
  • Advocate for product features and improvements as the voice of the customer and works cross-functionally with internal product teams to champion adoption and change.
  • Collaborate with Customer Success teammates to meet and exceed quarterly regional targets, while being accountable for individual quarterly metrics including Personal Net Renewal Rate, CSQL, Customer Health, Adoption, and Advocacy.
  • Actively participate in internal training, knowledge sharing and collaboration sessions
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

WHATYOU'LL NEED:
  • 5-8 years of customer-facing / account management experience, preferably in the technology (SaaS) industry; proven success managing a customer portfolio with a record of successful adoption.
  • Solid knowledge of social media and/or social marketing and business use of social media.
  • Tech Savvy: Ability to quickly learn new technologies and explain software features and social media concepts to customers in a simple, succinct manner.
  • Customer Focus: Demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers to meet their needs.
  • Collaboration and Teamwork: Works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs.
  • Open Communication: Clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding,
  • Priority Setting: Focuses time/energy on the most important issues/opportunities.
  • Clearly understand how to assess the importance of tasks and decisions.
  • Commitment to Results: Consistently achieves results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results.
  • Problem Solving: Uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems. Looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems.
  • Influence: Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment and mobilizing people to take action.
  • Creativity and Innovation: Seeks new and better ways of doing things, generates original and imaginative ideas, products, or solutions.

WHO YOU ARE:
  • Solution seeker. You're focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward-and you don't wait to be asked.
  • Lifelong learner. You have a growth mindset - you're here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn't.
  • Resilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
  • Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
  • Critical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
  • Active communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
  • Integrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team's work drives broader organizational goals.
  • Accountable owner. You take pride in the work you're responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
  • Bar-raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.


Note. The below pay range represents the base pay for this position.

Variable Pay. In addition, the role is eligible for Hootsuite's Sales Compensation Program. Candidates who advance will receive further details during the interview process.

Canada Pay Range For This Role

$80,000-$112,000 CAD

#LI-Hybrid

About HootSuite Media, Inc.

Hootsuite is a social media management platform, created by Ryan Holmes in 2008. The system's user interface takes the form of a dashboard, and supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and TikTok. Based in Vancouver, Hootsuite has close to 1,000 staff members in 13 locations, including Toronto, London, Paris, Sydney, Bucharest, Milan, Rome and Mexico City. The company has more than 16 million users in over 175 countries.
Learn more about HootSuite Media, Inc.
Industry
Founded
2008

Similar Jobs

More Enterprise Technology Jobs

Find similar Senior Customer Success Manager jobs: