PowerSchool

Senior Customer Success Manager

PowerSchool$69K — $103K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5 years prior experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or technical support
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills
  • Strong attention to detail with a bias for action
  • Strategic thinker who aligns solutions to customer goals
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite and AI for business analysis
  • Mastery in delivering difficult messages
  • Salesforce experience preferred
  • Understanding of K-12 education systems and technology preferred
  • SaaS experience preferred
  • Ability to manage heavy workloads and multiple projects
  • Associate's degree or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

  • Identify potential risks to customer retention and proactively mitigate churn
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to improve customer satisfaction and health
  • Analyze retention trends and provide insights to leadership
  • Ensure seamless experiences by partnering with Customer Success and other teams
  • Forecast renewal and risk with data accuracy and actionable insights
  • Manage negotiations for renewals, pricing, and contracts
  • Assist in optimizing processes for efficient renewal management
  • Act as senior escalation point for customer renewal concerns

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy, Life)
  • Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
  • Comprehensive 401(k) plan
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • Unrestricted paid time off (Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
  • Wellness Program including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Optional benefits like Pet Insurance and Identity Theft Protection
Full Job Description
Overview

Team Overview Our Success team ensures our partners in educational technology achieve their desired outcomes, serving as champions of our customers' needs. Through collaboration, strong relationships, and advocacy, the Success team positively impacts customer retention through proactive engagement and delivering excellence to our customers.

Responsibilities

Description

The Customer Success team focuses on ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes with our products through satisfaction, retention, and growth.

Your day-to-day job will consist of:

  • Customer Retention:Identifypotential risks to customer retention and proactively refer cross-functionally to mitigate churn and improve retention rates.
  • Improve customer health through cross funcitonal collaboration with Support, Services, Sales and other departments.
  • Analysis and Insights: Partner with the leadership to analyze andidentifyretention trends and provide insights to the business.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Customer Success, Account Management, and EIC teams to ensure a seamless customer experience and maximize renewal and expansion opportunities.
  • Forecasting: Ensure renewal and risk forecasting processes across assigned teams, ensuring data accuracy and actionable insights for leadership.
  • Negotiation: Manage customer negotiations for renewal terms, pricing, and contract modifications, focusing on creating mutually beneficial outcomes.
  • Process Optimization:Assistin the design andimplementatioinscalable processes and best practices to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of renewal management activities.
  • Customer Advocacy: Act as a senior escalation point for renewal-related customer concerns, collaborating with internal teams to resolve issues andmaintainhigh customer satisfaction.
Qualifications

Qualifications include:

  • 5 years prior experience in a Customer Success, Account Management, or technical support role
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills
  • Attention to detail and a strong bias for action
  • Strategic thinking with the ability to align solutions to customer goals.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
  • Proficient in the use of AI for business analysis
  • Mastery level of delivering difficult messages when necessary
  • Salesforce experience preferred
  • Understanding of K-12 education systems and technology preferred
  • Software-as-a-service (SaaS) experience preferred
  • Ability to handle a heavy workload and multiple projects with frequent interruptions and schedule changes
  • Associates degree or equivalent work experience
Compensation & Benefits Compensation & Benefits

PowerSchool offers the following benefits:

  • Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
  • Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
  • Comprehensive 401(k) plan
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
  • Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage

A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $69,700 - $103,200 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.

About PowerSchool

PowerSchool is an education technology company that provides a range of K-12 education solutions to schools around the world. The company's products include student information systems, learning management systems, assessment and analytics tools, and special education management systems. PowerSchool serves more than 45 million students and 12,000 schools in over 70 countries. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Minnesota, USA.
Learn more about PowerSchool
Size
2,500 employees
Market Cap
$4.4 billion
Industry
Founded
1997
NASDAQ

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