Spotify

Manager, Customer Success

To unlock the potential of human creativity

  • Sales and customer success

  • Full-time

  • Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Visa sponsorship · No

  • Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.

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Why Spotify

Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 80 million tracks, including more than 4 million podcast titles, for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features for music including improved sound quality and an on-demand, offline, and ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with 433m users, including 188m subscribers, across 183 markets.

About the role

We are looking for a Manager, Customer Success for our ANZ Ads business. The candidate should have an established record of Customer Success Management (CSM) and revenue management, as well as a deep interest and passion for digital media, music and innovation.

In this role, you will oversee a team of Customer Success Managers. We want someone who loves our product and has deep expertise in the industry and digital media and to help build long-term consultative solutions, and lead, motivate and grow a team . You should be confident while being humble, and hardworking while still knowing how to have fun!

You must have experience leading Client Services, or teams with similar responsibilities. Strong people skills and to work across multiple teams and functions is a necessity. A reliable and crucial team member with comprehensive platform knowledge who can anticipate client and internal team needs. 

What You'll Do

- You will work with and report directly to the Regional Head of Customer Success Management, APAC, to collaborate, strategize, shape, develop and evolve the ANZ Customer Success Management team to continually meet and exceed the needs and expectations of our internal and external partners
- In close collaboration with the Sales Directors of this team, you will create strategy and drive execution via world class customer service for some of the world’s top brands and agencies
- You will directly manage a team of Customer Success Managers to support and drive revenue
- You will be an expert on all responsibilities, processes and tools of the Customer Success Management role and a demonstrated leader of the CSM teams aligned to these verticals
- Partner and deeply collaborate with Sales Leadership on key accounts needs, account planning exercises, QBRs, etc, and act as an operational point of contact and escalation resource for clients and internal teams
- You will drive utilisation of our offshore resources, automation tools, and self-service platforms in order to focus CSM team on proactive, strategic work
- Provide team guidance and coaching while delivering tailored solutions to client requests
- Maintain and approve policy exception requests relating to Service Level Agreements, Compliance, Pricing, Makegoods, and more
- Build a strong cross-functional network and conduct regular status meetings with the leaders of these teams to maintain alignment that supports the business
- Oversee completion of CSM team recurring tasks including pipeline hygiene, campaign pacing, production tracking, and measurement outcomes
- Assess staffing needs and lead the interviewing, hiring and onboarding of talent
- Identify needs and lead training for the CSM team inclusive of role-specific, soft-skills, procedural and developmental curriculum
- Provide bi-annual development talks to your team; review and approve administrative tasks for each individual on your team

Who You Are

- You have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, preferably in Sales, Advertising, Marketing, or Business
- You have a minimum of 10+ years of Digital Advertising Customer Success Management experience, and 5+ years of management experience
- You are a digital media leader and consultant and have a proven track record of success
- You have strong agency and industry relationships and a deep understanding of the advertising landscape and expertise in account planning, strategic planning, and media buying within Direct & Programmatic environments
- You have experience running a team where Data & Insights drive the direction of the business
- You have experience working in self-service or automated planning and buying tools
- You have the ability to gracefully translate client requests for internal cross-functional teams
- You are detail oriented and find solutions for clients while improving internal processes
- You are highly motivated, entrepreneurial, energetic, and willing to thrive in a high growth, fast-paced organization
- You hold strong relationships with internal and external partner teams
- You are an effective listener and transparent communicator with excellent problem solving and negotiating skills
- You are passionate about identifying and developing excellent customer service skills in others
- Experience working within CRMs, OMSs, ad servers and other digital media tech systems and platforms, and are experienced in tools like excel and powerpoint.

Where You'll Be

- This role is based in Sydney, Australia
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. We ask that you come in 3x a week

What you'll be responsible for

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    Adoption and Success Management

    Support customers gain value from the product / service. Including check-ins, training, addressing blockers to adoption, and providing best practice advice

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    Account Retention and Expansion

    Proactively identify opportunities for expansion and limit risk of churn by collaborating with clients to deliver on actions

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    Sales and Customer Success Process Improvement

    Experiment with new ideas, processes and tools to improve and scale the way that we engage with customers

Skills you'll need

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    Negotiation

    Persuades others to shift their views and/or behaviours with the goal of reaching consensus

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    Collaboration

    Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

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    Decision Making

    Considers the costs and benefits of potential actions and determines the most appropriate one

Meet the team

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Spotify

We’re the team that knows how to reach the streaming generation as they listen to the audio they love, and the best ways for brands to make a meaningful connection. We help brands and advertisers to be heard on our platform, tapping into our unique understanding of our listeners and creators to build some of the most relevant and effective ad experiences in the world today. We don’t do it alone though. We work closely with teams across the business to develop innovative content, products, and campaigns, delivering results for our partner brands and maximizing revenue for our business.