FourKites

Sr. Manager, Customer Success

FourKites$145K — $175K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years' experience in account management, consulting, or customer success
  • 3+ years of experience managing customer-facing teams
  • Experience in Supply Chain or related SaaS preferred; tech startup experience a plus
  • Understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue models
  • Experience with complex software and freight management
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; MBA is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a high-performing Customer Success Manager team
  • Build strong relationships with customer executives for strategic accounts
  • Partner with Customer Enablement to enhance CS Playbooks
  • Provide coaching and direction on daily execution of customer success strategies
  • Manage account planning, business objectives, and customer growth
  • Assess and mitigate account risk while escalating issues as needed
  • Collaborate with leadership to exceed customer expectations and foster a success-driven culture

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental & Vision benefits starting on the first day of employment
  • 401k Retirement savings with employer match
  • Paid parental leave for all parents
  • Generous PTO, global recharge days, and volunteer days
  • Annual wellness stipend
  • Technology reimbursement
  • Commuter benefits for in-office employees (Chicago)
  • Ongoing learning & development opportunities
Full Job Description
As the SeniorManager, Customer Success, you will lead a team of Customer Success Managers responsible for providing a best-in-class customer experience. The team is responsible for guiding customers through their visibility journey and managing a book of customers. Key metrics include Net Revenue Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Health, and account growth. Your team will work heavily with Sales, Operations, Product and Leadership. The ideal candidate will be equally passionate about FourKites solutions, customer outcomes, leading, developing and inspiring a team that scales with our growth.

What you'll be doing:
  • Development and manage a team of Customer Success Managers
  • Build and cultivate relationships with customer executives and champions of strategic accounts and serve as an escalation point for client conflict resolution as necessary
  • Partner with Customer Enablement to ensure CS Playbooks are being advanced based on our business growth and maturity
  • Provide direction, coaching and feedback to CSMs around day-to-day execution of CS Playbooks
  • Detailed management routines around account planning, business objectives, risk mitigation, and customer expansion
  • Understand and mitigate account risk and escalate to dependent functions as necessary
  • Enable Customer Growth Account Executives, Renewals Manager and CSMs to strategize on renewals and expansion opportunities
  • Hire, onboard, and develop team members to progress their career at FourKites
  • Contribute and lead a culture of customer success
  • Collaborate with other FourKites leaders to ensure one team approach to meet and exceed customer expectations
  • Approximately 25% travel for client site visits

About the team:

The FourKites Customer Success Team owns the overall customer relationship. The team's goal is to provide our customers the best experience and business consultancy. We provide best practices and thought leadership to help our customers recognize business value and prove ROI. Our goal is to be viewed as trusted partners and to create raving fans that want to continuously further their partnership with FourKites.

Who you are:
  • Manage and influence behavior through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building
  • Understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue business models
  • Analytical and process-oriented mindset
  • Enthusiastic and creative leader with the ability to inspire others
  • Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Basic Qualifications
  • Experience in a Supply Chain industry or related SaaS company highly preferred; Tech startup experience advantageous
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, MBA a plus
  • 7+ years' experience in an account management, consulting or customer success
  • 3+ years of directly managing customer-facing teams
  • Experience directly or indirectly working with freight management and supply chain
  • Experience working with complex software
Compensation

The expected annual base salary range for this role is $145,000 - $175,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to experience, qualifications, skills, and business needs. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for bonus and incentive compensation as well as participation in FourKites' employee stock option program.
Benefits

FourKites provides competitive compensation with stock options, outstanding benefits and a collaborative culture for all employees around the globe. To help you be your best, we have 5 global recharge days, in addition to generous PTO and standard holidays. Parental leave for all parents, an annual wellness stipend and volunteer days also provide you with time and resources for self care and to care for others. Throughout the year, FourKites sets aside time during the workday to learn and celebrate diversity. We're always listening for new ways to support everyone in and out of the office.

Benefits include:
  • Medical, Dental & Vision benefits starting on first day of employment
  • 401k Retirement savings with employer match
  • Bonus and incentive compensation as well as employee stock option program
  • Employer paid life insurance and short term disability insurance
  • Generous PTO, global recharge days, and volunteer days
  • Paid parental leave for all parents
  • Family planning and inclusive wellbeing resources
  • Technology reimbursement
  • Commuter benefits for in-office employees (Chicago)
  • Annual Wellness Stipend
  • Ongoing learning & development opportunities

About FourKites

FourKites is a logistics technology company that provides real-time visibility and predictive analytics for supply chain management. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. FourKites' platform allows shippers, carriers, and logistics providers to track shipments, optimize routes, and improve delivery times. FourKites has raised over $100 million in funding and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.
Learn more about FourKites
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2014

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