Customer Success Manager

2 Months ago • 3 Years + • Business Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Customer Success Manager at Coursera, you'll build strategic relationships with clients, driving high platform utilization and ensuring customer value. Responsibilities include regular client meetings, sharing best practices, creating turnaround plans for low usage, conducting executive business reviews, and articulating ROI. You'll collaborate with sales, marketing, and product teams to ensure customer retention and expansion, serving as the primary customer advocate and point of escalation for issue resolution. This role requires strong communication, problem-solving skills, and the ability to translate data into actionable insights. Approximately 25% travel is expected.
Must have:
  • 3+ years account management/sales/customer success experience
  • Drive customer retention, health metrics, and value
  • Increase utilization metrics within assigned accounts
  • Fluency in Spanish
Good to have:
  • Experience with data applications (Excel, Sheets, Looker)
  • Ability to articulate the value of education to key decision-makers
  • Strong customer empathy and advocacy skills
  • Entrepreneurial drive and ability to work autonomously
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Experience in Ed-Tech
Perks:
  • Flexible work arrangements (remote, office, co-working space)

Job Details

Launched in 2012 by two Stanford professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Coursera is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 168 million registered learners. Our mission is to provide universal access to world-class learning. We partner with over 350 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations and Professional Certificates degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns.

At Coursera, we are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration. 

Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you.

Job Overview:

As a Customer Success Manager, your role is to ensure the success of our customers by serving as a trusted advisor and guiding them toward their desired outcomes. Your effectiveness will be measured by your ability to drive account value through effectively driving product usage, managing customer relationships, and helping customers articulate business value tied to learning on the Coursera platform. Operating in a cross-functional capacity, you can anticipate collaborating with teams across Sales, Marketing, Content Strategy, Product, and Learner Operations, all working cohesively towards the shared goals of Coursera's growth and long-term success. Together, we are redefining how individuals acquire knowledge and skills, and we invite you to be a driving force as we transform lives through learning.

Responsibilities:

  • Own strategic relationships with assigned customer accounts through a combination of remote & on-site engagements.
  • Help customers drive high utilization of the Coursera platform by conducting regular cadence meetings with admins, sharing best practices, and executing a turn-around plan when customer- usage is low. 
  • Ensure customers see value from Coursera via executive business reviews, exec sponsor meetings and ROI articulation. 
  • Share accountability with the Sales team for ensuring customer retention and expansion
  • Serve as the primary “voice of customer” and point of escalation when customer issues arise, working in partnership with Support and Implementation to troubleshoot, and ensure quick resolution.
  • Travel expected 25%

Basic Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of account management/sales/customer success experience
  • Experience in driving customer retention results, customer health metrics and driving value 
  • Experience increasing utilization metrics within assigned accounts
  • Fluency in Spanish

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with data heavy applications including Excel/Sheets and Looker
  • Ability to articulate the power of education and learning to influence key business decision makers
  • Strong sense of customer empathy and customer-centrism; to convert relationship and value into advocacy 
  • Entrepreneurial drive and ability to work autonomously in fast moving, quickly-changing environments
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills with a strong ability for problem solving and analytical thinking to translate data into action
  • Experience working in Ed-Tech

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

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Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.
 
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at accommodations@coursera.org.
 
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Coursera Inc. is an American global massive open online course provider. It was founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects.

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