Senior Customer Success Manager, Strategic Accounts

Location(s):
San Francisco, CA - HQ
San Mateo, CA
 
Description: Salesforce.com has rapidly evolved from a startup founded by four people in a cramped San Francisco apartment in 1999 to a company with more than 2,500 employees, an $800 Million Annual Revenue Run Rate and over 1,000,000 users worldwide. As a pioneer in on-demand business services, we are transforming the software industry, championing what we call the “democratization” of software—offering small companies the benefits of sophisticated business applications, a luxury previously affordable only for large enterprises. Our customers range in size from tiny companies to global multinational corporations and represent diverse industries. Top talent across the world joins salesforce.com for its “change the world” mentality; the opportunity to excel in a performance-driven, fast-paced, and competitive atmosphere; the chance to be surrounded by peers and leaders that inspire, motivate, and innovate and a corporate philosophy that incorporates community involvement into its fabric.

Responsibilities:
    This senior individual brings a wealth of platform and high tech industry talent to the largest and most strategic customers of salesforce.com. Strategic Customer Success Managers are responsible for bringing salesforce.com's best ideas, innovations, and capabilities to customers and driving greater business value.
  • Develop a trusted advisor relationship with customer executive sponsors such that all salesforce.com activities are closely aligned with the customer's business case and business strategy, allowing the full potential of their salesforce.com solution to be realized
  • Establish and participate in project steering committee meetings; proposing creative viable solutions to the executive sponsors such that critical success issues are addressed on a pro-active basis
  • Establish a Project Management Office (PMO) that can track all implementation and post-implementation adoption activities such that the overall success of the customer's CRM initiative can be closely monitored including visibility to the executive sponsors
  • Establish and oversee the customer's salesforce.com Center of Excellence such that the phased roll-out of functionality, training and development of best practices continually drive incremental value and return on the customer's investment
  • Serve as a customer advocate in driving industry best practices and the evolution of salesforce.com product and platform functionality integral to the customer's success
  • Facilitate the development of a vertical industry community of like salesforce.com customers, routinely sharing best practices and leveraging lessons learned.
  • Own the contract renewal process and uncover incremental revenue opportunities where appropriate


Required Skills/Experience:
  • 15+ years relevant work experience with 10+ years experience in a global management consulting firm preferred
  • Deep experience in the high tech vertical
  • Deep experience in software as a service (SAAS)
  • Proven effectiveness at leading and facilitating executive workshops
  • Proven experience in managing large, complex, global project implementations
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Strong ability to mentor less senior staff
  • Willing to travel
  • BA/BS degree with MBA strongly preferred


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