Salesforce

Success Guide - Sales Cloud

Salesforce$80K — $150K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years experience in Salesforce ecosystem with expertise in Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, or similar
  • Salesforce Certified Administrator required
  • Preferred certifications include Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, and others
  • Experience in developing custom solutions in Salesforce Lightning using LWC and Apex
  • Familiar with data integration and strong knowledge of SQL and SOQL
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders
  • Strong communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with customers to translate business needs into Salesforce solutions
  • Provide recommendations for improving product adoption and business outcomes
  • Conduct org health assessments using Salesforce tools and provide actionable insights
  • Perform advanced security assessments and recommend best practices for compliance
  • Collaborate with teams to design scalable solutions and address platform challenges
  • Lead interactive demos and workshops to boost feature adoption
  • Deliver tailored success coaching sessions for individual customer needs.

Benefits

  • Time off programs
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Mental health support
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Employee stock purchase program
Full Job Description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

The role of the Success Guide is crucial in helping customers to grow value and improve adoption of Salesforce. Success Guides provide proactive and reactive architecture, product, and industry expertise to enable customers to successfully adopt products. The Success Guide will engage with customers across all account segments, delivering 1:1 success guidance to Premier and Signature Success customers. With the support of AI and automation, Success Guides provide the right recommendation at the right time, enabling customer value realization at scale. They partner with key collaborators such as Success Managers, Account Executives, and Support to make our customers successful.

The ideal Success Guide is organized, agile, and passionate about Product Education. They have excellent presentation and communication skills in both a 1 on 1 and group setting. They have strong technical skills and are able to use their product knowledge to deliver value to both customers and internal teams.

Responsibilities

  • Provide prescriptive recommendations, best practices, and technical advice for improving adoption

  • Deliver 1:1 Expert Coaching Sessions and Ad-Hoc Success Engagements

  • Become an expert in Sales Cloud and related products

  • Help customers consistently achieve their business outcomes

  • Generate positive feedback from customers, internal teams and leadership

  • Show continued professional growth and development

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • 3+ yrs relevant experience (Sales Cloud experience)

  • Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the Values & Behaviors for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

  • Trailhead Ranger and Salesforce Administrator Certified

  • Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies

  • Consultative and customer-focused approach and engagement style

  • Ability to navigate, escalate, and lead efforts on complex customer requests

  • Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively with a variety of audiences (from developers to C-Suite)

  • Ability to prioritize, multi-task, collaborate with team members and perform effectively under pressure


Preferred Qualifications & Skills

  • Trailhead Ranger

  • Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certified, Platform App Builder Certified, and Sales Cloud are considered an asset

  • Familiarity with the Salesforce platform

  • Salesforce admin experience

  • Fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese


In addition to having the Salesforce Administrator Certification, Success Guides will be expected to obtain Salesforce Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder and Sales Cloud Consultant Certification within the first 90 days of hire.

Expectation for candidate to enable and deliver on advanced topics such as Territory Planning, Maps and Platform related topics.

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