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What does the Manager of Strategic Customer Success on the Employer Team do at Handshake?

We’re looking for a Manager of Strategic Success to join our Employer Customer Experience Team - working with F500 employers across the nation to influence and expand their early talent recruiting strategy.  You will serve as a key leader for the Strategic Segment of existing partnerships. You’ll work closely with the team to ensure they achieve their goals, build relationships with executives, expand their presence as thought leaders and drive customer retention and expansion from onboarding through renewal.   

You’ll be instrumental in building and leading a world class Customer Success program for the category leading platform. This high-impact role combines equal parts people management, sales, relationship management leadership and customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate has a proven record of success managing revenue carrying individual contributors in SaaS technology company.   

Your Role

• Lead a high-performing team of Strategic Customer Success Managers: hire, develop, inspire, motivate and empower the team to successfully achieve our client’s goals while also striving to reach our organization’s retention and revenue growth targets (e.g. NDR) 
• Mentor and assist team with account planning, metrics pacing, renewals, identifying upsell opportunities, managing churn, and forecasting 
• Effectively track business progress to goals - adoption, usage, product penetration and overall satisfaction (NPS)
• Develop relationships with senior stakeholders of our largest customers, navigate complex situations, engage in multi-threading to new lines of business and subsidiaries 
• Synthesize the voice of Strategic customers from qualitative and quantitative feedback, share with leadership and cross-functional partners (e.g. input into Product roadmap)
• Understand market trends and keep up-to-date with the latest developments and discussions impacting the industry
• Work closely with cross functional partners (like Marketing, Product, Sales Ops) to meet client’s objectives, while also positively impacting the CSM function

• Present to the Executive Team on a consistent basis
• Front line people management including coaching, performance management, career development and skills development

What we look for 

• 7+ years in SaaS enterprise and strategic customer success, and/or post-sales experience
• 5+ years leading high-performing teams, working with Fortune 200 companies
• Strong track record of success with your own book of business, and regularly hitting individual and team goals
• Experience creating and influencing value narratives including ROI, product value and thought leadership all coupled with data storytelling
• Experience influencing renewal proposals/recommendations, forecasting, and account planning
• Experience with an evangelical sale, selling non-discretionary software to executives at Fortune 500 companies
• Excellent communication skills, polished, professional sales presentation skillsAnalytical mindset with a methodical data-driven approach to identifying challenges, creating solutions and measuring impact
• Ability to think systematically, proactively identify gaps, build infrastructure, processes, and tools to drive efficiency and streamlined operations
• Organized with systems and efficiency to create scalable solutions vs manual work
• You thrive in a fast paced environment, appreciate and demonstrate flexibility as needed
• You react gracefully under pressure
• You’re a do-er with a bias towards action and creative problem-solving

Compensation range

• $200,000 - $220,000 OTE (80/20)

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