.Our Customer Success team advises and guides our wide array of customers as they map to a broad spectrum of business needs to Zendesk! We ensure customers are optimized and scaling smoothly through impactful engagements, all focused on driving business and technical value! A key fixture of our Success team is the work our CSMs do to understand a customer's business, work creatively to provide solutions to challenges, and ultimately help their business innovate and transform using Zendesk.Customer Success Managers align to a portfolio of customers within a specific region and are responsible for mitigating or minimizing churn/contraction risk while driving product adoption. You do this through proactively engaging with customers at specific points in their lifecycle; guiding them to innovate and revolutionize their Customer Experience and/or Sales strategy using technology, and help them to continue to see value from Zendesk with your intimate knowledge of the platform. Alongside your teammates, you ensure that customers see results from Zendesk and will continue their partnership.Responsibilities:Proactively manage a book of business to minimize churn and contraction, by empowering businesses to have more personal conversations with their customers.Consultative approach with leaders across various industries to capture their business problems and partner on creating solutions by using all of Zendesk's products and services.Partner with the sales team in your region to develop account plans, ROIs and Success Plans for growing accounts, and risk mitigation plans for at-risk customers.Conduct virtual and onsite meetings (ex: QBRs, Roadmap Presentations, Success plans, Syncs meetings) according to Zendesk Customer Success methodology to get results, product adoption and ensure retention.Maintain a high level of professionalism, empathy, and business acuity across multiple customers at one time, connecting trends and themes as you go.Act as the Voice of the Customer, ensuring the Product Team has clear insights into our customers' challenges and use-cases.Have excellent presentation skills to keep customers engaged in virtual and onsite settings.Capture data trends and customer insights to provide a feedback loop to internal Zendesk teams (Product, Marketing, etc).Experience in conceptualizing technology concepts and CX flows into use cases that solve business problems.Working together with Premier Support Teams in big accounts to provide the best experience to those customers on adoption, best practices, support with new initiatives.CharacteristicsEnergized by working collaboratively to evolve and optimize a customer program.Love for teamwork and the ability to work within different internal groups to enhance our customer's experience.Self-motivated and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Works proactively to learn and optimize skills to succeed.Proven ability to develop relationships quickly
