Customer Success Area Lead

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • Business Development

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Job Description

The Customer Success Area Lead works with sales leaders, CS investment teams, and collaborators to prevent customer attrition and drive solutions for designated accounts. This role is crucial in strategizing, prioritizing, and enhancing internal relationships to ensure customers receive the support needed to succeed with Salesforce. Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize retention, aligning account information with sales and investment goals, reviewing customer success scores and recommending solutions, collaborating with Product Education on success plan deployments, managing investment programs, leveraging data to align priorities, promoting CSG resources, supporting business review meetings, and co-creating business reviews with various stakeholders.
Must have:
  • 6+ years in Sales, Customer Success, or related fields (SaaS preferred)
  • Proficiency in Salesforce product suite and best practices
  • Relationship building and client value creation
  • Navigating complex discussions and driving alignment
  • Expertise in at least one LoB or industry sector
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We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Who We Are


We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you’ve come to the right place.


Position Description


For our customers who wish to get the most value out of Salesforce with an enterprise experience and the fastest support, delivered by our most skilled authorities, they purchase our Success Plans. The Customer Success Area Lead will work closely with key sales leaders, CS investment teams, and other collaborators to prevent attrition and drive solutions for our designated customers/accounts. This role plays a critical part in strategizing, prioritizing, and enhancing internal relationships; ensuring our customers receive the support they need to succeed with Salesforce by working internally with the right teams at the right time.


Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with internal Sales and Customer Success key stakeholders to strategically prioritize customer retention and mitigate attrition.

  • Orchestrate alignment between account information, sales leaders, and investment goals of defined success plan portfolio.

  • Consistently review Customer Success Scores and other meaningful metrics recommending appropriate options to support customer needs.

  • Collaborate with Product Education to programmatically recommend and deploy success plan entitlements to improve customer adoption.

  • Manage to our Investment Program guidelines and ensure sales leaders are aligned with investment priorities.

  • Leverage data to ensure priorities are aligned with highest impact investments and communicate impact with stakeholders.

  • Promote CSG resources through multi-channel communication, ensuring leaders and AE’s understand and use the customer success support process.

  • Coordinate and support business review meetings with OU leads, improving the overall Account Success Quarterly Business Review experience.

  • Co-create business reviews for Sales in collaboration Renewals, Success Plan Sales, and other key stakeholde


Preferred Qualifications and Skills

  • 6+ years in Sales, Customer Success, or related fields, preferably within the SaaS landscape.

  • Proficiency in Salesforce's product suite, with a keen understanding of its capabilities and best application practices.

  • Proven track record to forge and cultivate relationships, serving as a trusted advisor that brings tangible business value to clients.

  • Capable to navigate complicated discussions, handle objections, and drive alignment.

  • Expertise in at least one line of business (LoB) or specific industry sector.

  • An academic degree or equivalent experience, with preference for candidates showcasing aligned experiences that cater to the nuances of the role.


Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer. If you meet some of the requirements, we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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