Seismic
Customer Success Manager I
Our mission is to enable companies to prosper by helping them become a force for good.
Sales and customer success
Contract
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.
·
Why Seismic
Seismic, a rapidly growing Forbes Cloud 100 company, is the global leader in enablement, helping make sales teams better by becoming more productive and engaging with buyers in a compelling way. Seismic’s platform provides continuous guidance to improve behavior, content, and skills to win more deals and deliver better experiences. Nearly 2,000 organizations including IBM and American Express have made Seismic their enablement platform of choice. Seismic integrates with business-critical platforms including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google and Adobe. Seismic is headquartered in San Diego, with offices across North America, Europe, and Australia.
About the role
Overview:
The Customer Success Manager’s primary responsibility is to drive product adoption, highlight best practices and ensure client retention. You will serve as the primary point of contact for assigned accounts, establishing regular cadence, conducting business reviews and tracking success metrics. You will serve as the customer’s internal champion acting as the main point of contact for escalation of issues, product enhancement requests and driving attendance to Seismic’s webinars and client events. A successful candidate must be comfortable engaging and developing trusted advisor relationships with c-level executives and cross-organisational teams tied to the client’s Sales Enablement strategy.
Who you are:
- Possess a strong sense of ownership and takes pride in all that you do
- Comfortable in dynamic environments with changing priorities
- Skilled at managing multiple responsibilities while striving to exceed expectations
- Displays a sense of humor and humility during those challenging times
- Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to effectively prioritise and escalate customer issues
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
What you’ll be doing:
- Building a Trusted Advisor relationship at all levels, from practitioner to C-level, in your accounts, helping to ensure renewals and uncover opportunities for cross-sell/upsell
- Consulting with client stakeholders to understand their business strategies and goals as well as their objectives for using Seismic, finding ways to align the two, and ensuring Seismic delivers value against agreed success criteria whilst communicating this value/ROI throughout the customer lifecycle
- Leading regular business reviews in which you make data-driven recommendations for how to increase value and platform adoption for your accounts
- Providing account transparency by tracking client data in Gainsight, our Customer Success application, and using this data to identify, forecast, and mitigate risks proactively
- Providing regular product roadmap updates, ad-hoc troubleshooting, ongoing training for existing customers and other services and support activities as required.
- Leading the contract renewal process and identifying and nurturing expansion opportunities in coordination with Sales
- Partnering with Sales and Marketing to grow Seismic’s presence and brand in the APAC region
What you bring to the team:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Sciences or related field required.
- 4+ years of experience in a client/stakeholder management role, preferably in SaaS
- Commercial savvy and an understanding of the SaaS sales and renewal processes
- Experience working with complex, multi-divisional, multi-geographical customer accounts
- Executive presence and excellent communication abilities
- Ability to create structure in ambiguous situations, design effective processes, and prioritise ruthlessly
- Passion for technology and for being a part of a fast-growing SaaS company
- Experience working with cross-functional teams (e.g. Sales, Product, Marketing, Services)
Headquartered in San Diego and with employees across the globe, Seismic is the global leader in sales enablement, backed by firms such as Permira, Ameriprise Financial, EDBI, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and T. Rowe Price. Seismic also expanded its team and product portfolio with the strategic acquisitions of SAVO, Percolate, Grapevine6, and Lessonly. Our board of directors is composed of several industry luminaries including John Thompson, former Chairman of the Board for Microsoft. Seismic is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law.
What you'll be responsible for
- 💬
Customer Advocacy and Feedback
Advocate for customers by providing feedback to internal teams on how to better meet customer needs
- 👍🏼
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
- 🤝
Relationship Building
Maintain trusted relationships with key stakeholders to help them achieve their goals, and grow revenue and usage.
Skills you'll need
- 👥
Collaboration
Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
- 🤓
Learning agility
Identifies and applies strategies to enhance reception, retention and use of newly acquired information, skills, and abilities
- 💡
Problem solving
Identifies problems and develops logical solutions that address the problems
Meet the team
Our sales teams help companies understand how Seismic can power collaboration internally through the use of content. We’re thoughtful and committed to telling the Seismic story, with the goal to ultimately help brands focus on enabling their go to market teams.