Customer Success Manager, Academic

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role will be based in Chicago, Carpinteria or Omaha. 

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together. 

The Customer Success Manager (CSM) partners closely with their assigned sales partners to ensure LinkedIn Customers achieve a significant return on investment and drive business success with their LinkedIn Hiring Solutions investment. The customers will be US and Canadian higher education or K12 institutions who have purchased our Hiring Solutions.   

As a CSM you will be tasked with:    

• Serving as a Customer Champion and Advocate   
• Helping Customers realize value from their investment   
• Partnering on customer retention and expansion.  

The CSM will partner with various stakeholders within assigned customers, to ensure effective user and product onboarding and engagement on LinkedIn Hiring products and solutions.  

 Responsibilities:     

• Advance personal journey with Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as this is a top priority for LinkedIn and many of its customers   
• Partner with sales counterparts on prioritized customers to drive overall customer adoption, enhance customer success, and mitigate customer churn risk   
• Act as a trusted advisor to the end users and their management to drive product adoption and ensure they leverage the solution to achieve agreed upon operational priorities, leading to full business value   
• Analyze current customer engagement metrics and leverage the Learning Center to provide new and ongoing product education options.  
• Provide best practices to help drive user behavior and product adoption, and map Hiring solutions to existing customer workflows   
• Maintain healthy customer engagement levels by identifying low utilization and providing solutions to further drive customer success   
• Maintain an understanding of Hiring products and industry knowledge to effectively drive greater customer engagement on the most relevant features/functionality for their specific business needs   
• Interpret customer insights to drive change in product and act as voice of customer to LinkedIn Product teams   
• Expedite technical and purchase-related escalations  
• Document all communication with customers accurately and in a timely manner via system tools  
• Minimum travel may be required when travel guidelines safely allow for in-person visits, depending on location and territory  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:     

• 3+ years of experience in any of the following: Customer Success, Account Management/Sales, Consulting, Product Training and Enablement, Project Management, or Change Management  

  Preferred Qualifications:   

• Recruiting or other applicable talent experience  
• Fundamental interpersonal skills, demonstrated by the ability to build authentic business relationships and effectively manage relational challenges  
• Fundamental organization, project management, and time management skills    
• Experience analyzing data, trends, and client information to identify product or growth opportunities in service of customer value  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including expertise in presenting to both small and large audiences  
• Fundamental understanding of Sales concepts and Software as a Service  
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience  

Suggested Skills: 

• Customer Success 
• Project Management 
• Change Management 
• Verbal and Written Communication Skills

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  

The pay range for this role is $80,000 to $115,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.  

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