Sr. Customer Success Manager
Volterra
At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
Customer Success is an integral part of our long-term success as a company. You will act as a trusted advisor, beginning from the point of sale and extending through onboarding, project success, and renewals. You'll work closely with our internal teams, while providing input into a customer’s strategic plans, helping them to identify areas where they could improve their use of F5 or uncovering new uses for F5 amongst their portfolio.
You'll act as an enabler to ensure the customer remains successful and engaged with the solution so they understand the full value of their investment with us. Customer Success activities could include on-boarding, support, services, adoption, advocacy, retention, etc. and outcomes such as renewals, up-sell and churn reduction.
You will need to be focused on your goal but flexible in your approach. You will act as an enabler to ensure the customer remains successful and engaged with the solution so they understand the full value of their investment with our team!
The Challenge you Get to Accomplish
Customer Success leadership on our products and fostering strong relationships with assigned customers, Senior CSMs provide additional leadership, coaching and training for the Customer Success team. While a certain level of knowledge transfer and mentoring is expected from CSMs, the Senior CSM models exemplary responsibility for a level of mentorship with other team members and F5 employees that is clearly above & beyond without question or objection. They are counted on to bring new team members up to speed to mentor CSMs on operational items, and to provide leadership and direction for the group by example. The Senior CSM is a leader and role model within our teams who coordinates and coaches resources for a world class customer experience.
As part of the role you will continuously improve on your network and internal relationships, working closely internally and externally to enable further adoption of F5 products within your customers.
What will you do?
Mentoring and Coaching:
Contributes to the success of the Customer Success Team through mentoring and training activities.
Reviews activities with newer CSMs with a focus on training them in best practices and how to lead business outcomes.
Mentoring team members in newer F5 technologies
Assisting other Customer Success team members to perform day to day responsibilities as efficiently as possible
Takes on responsibility for creating & disseminating knowledge transfers that benefit the Customer Success team.
Customer Loyalty & Value Generation:
Ensure that high value customers derive value from their investment in F5, utilize all of their licenses, identify new opportunities, and collaborate with other F5 stakeholder teams to ensure adoption and a successful renewal.
Increase renewal rates and reduce churn.
Influence future lifetime value through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction and overall health scores.
Drive new business growth through greater advocacy and reference-ability.
Promote and educate customers on the resources and wider customer communities available to the customer. These are the forums which will encourage engagement, drive future projects forward and optimal utilization.
Act as a ‘coach’ in working effectively with the customers support service to ensure it is being effective for enhancement requests and escalations.
Guide your customer through significant service milestones such as upgrades, new releases and new features.
Leadership & Collaboration:
Where applicable partner with the account team and other internal teams to develop successful account strategies and plans that direct company resources to encourage renewal and return of investment cross pillar.
Engage and understand the customers cloud strategy and the guide them by providing resources that can assist their strategic business direction.
Manage internal relationships to promote customer success activities such as on-boarding, training, professional services, customer support, renewals, cross-sell/up-sell, advocacy.
Diligently and consistently update the internal Customer Relationship Management system with the customer’s business objectives and any metrics that define success to the customer eg. return on investment.
Develop and maintain a continuous close relationship with the relevant Application Sales Representative(s) throughout the customer lifecycle.
Industry Knowledge & Business Acumen:
Aid F5 team in mapping customer journey.
Deliver regular business reviews and success plans to senior executives and key business stakeholders.
Monitor customer usage data, health indicators, renewal dates and growth opportunities and translate into strategies for success.
Develop an understanding of typical challenges faced by customers and appropriately map F5 features and associated business benefits to address their needs.
Demonstrate Strategic Thinking, Innovation & Ability to Deliver Results:
Analyze data to develop a plan for each customer to ensure outcomes are measurable.
Use customer surveys for product and service feedback to help product management define the product roadmap and create continuous performance improvements across all teams.
Be a Customer Success evangelist for F5 aiding in growing the tools and systems required to be successful
Participate in the development of tools & resources used by the CSM, as well as the engagement points and methods both internal and external to F5.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
What you Bring to the Team
Experience in a customer facing role involving cloud based/SaaS technology with collaboration
of senior stakeholders.
Ability to quickly grasp and distinctly explain technological and business concepts
Proven ability to develop and cultivate lasting customer relationships with limited resources.
Strong empathy for customers and passion for revenue and growth.
Written and verbally communicate a complex message in a simplistic way.
Collaborative, persistent and self-directed.
Confident and engaging presentation skills, personable, positive, approachable & tenacious.
Commercial acumen.
Resilient, managing pressured situations effectively.
Strong desire to learn and develop personally.
Strong time management work ethic and focus on delivery.
Able to travel at short notice 50% of the time.
Mirroring & ability to engage and be engaging at all levels.
Fluency in English is required
What’s required of me?
Showcase 12+ years’ of customer success related experience with you and have your Bachelor’s degree in a related field; Or you have 8+ years of customer success related experience and a Master’s degree in a related field; Or 5+ years’ of customer success related experience and your PhD in a related field.
Holding a Degree(s) in Computing or Business & Information Technology or related field are preferred.
Sometimes, we might need you to work outside of your normal work hours (evenings and weekends).
Travel to and from Seattle will be regular (up to 30%) in the first 18 months of this role. Following the first 18 months, there will be occasional travel as needed.
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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
The annual U.S. base pay range for this position is: $146,358.00 - $219,536.00F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
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