Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations

Levels

Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations

Job Grade

The Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations is a Grade 6.

Responsibilities

• Define, lead, and track strategic and operational programs to successful completion
• Develop and deliver GTM initiatives to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of sales and adoption capabilities for GitLab prospects and customer with data and analytics, including:
  • Customer journey development, including handoffs
  • Lifecycle management processes and playbooks
  • Digital journey development, content creation and curation, and metrics
  • Go-to-market (GTM) and/or adoption campaigns, including collaboration with Marketing, Product / Growth, Data Teams, and Sales Operations
  • Processes and playbooks for Solution Architect, Customer Success Manager, Professional Services, and Renewal Managers
• Represent CSM and customers in cross functional programs / workstreams focused on customer experience initiatives
• Translate customer feedback data and survey results into program attributes that drive new customer impact and outcomes
• Successful execution of Global Customer Success GTM strategy
• Drive global CS use of Gainsight

Requirements

• Progressive years of experience driving customer success development with a high-growth global company
• Demonstrated success with cross-functional coordination, including planning, execution tracking, decision making, and OKR management
• Experienced leading cross-functional initiatives in mid-sized organizations (i.e., 500+ employees)
• Demonstrated progressive experience with operations or related experience with a technical SaaS or subscription software service
• Experience with deploying usage data/product analytics projects
• Strong verbal and written skills with a strong ability to articulate and communicate strategies and plans
• Experienced administrator of Gainsight and CRM software (Salesforce preferred)
• Experience with software development tools, practices, and methodologies is a plus
• Ability to use GitLab
• Ability to learn GitLab as part of the role
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Leadership at GitLab
• You are obsessed with making customers happy

Senior Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations

Job Grade

The Senior Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations is a Grade 7.

Responsibilities

• Extends that of the Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations responsibilities
• Develop and deliver GTM initiatives to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of sales and adoption capabilities for GitLab prospects and customer with data and analytics, including:
  • Fiscal year planning
  • Customer escalation and at-risk programs
  • Customer journey development, including handoffs
  • Lifecycle management processes and playbooks
  • Digital journey development, content creation and curation, and metrics
  • Customer Health Scoring
  • Go-to-market (GTM) and/or adoption campaigns, including collaboration with Marketing, Product / Growth, Data Teams, and Sales Operations
  • Processes and playbooks for Solution Architect, Customer Success Manager, Professional Services, and Renewal Managers
• Own partnership with Product, bringing “voice of customer” to Product teams, including interlock, reporting, metrics, and facilitating customer engagement (e.g., surveys, interviews, etc.)
• Define systems and tools requirements that improve CSM visibility into customer information and overall customer performance

Requirements

• Extends that of the Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations requirements
• Excellent presentation skills with executive awareness
• Experienced leading cross-functional initiatives in mid-sized or large organizations (i.e., 1000+ employees)
• Intermediate Gainsight administration experience or Level 2 certification as a strategic guide to leadership
• Ensure CS initiatives and programs are communicated, aligned, implemented and measured cross functionally for bi-directional knowledge sharing to support global standardization
• Experience with technical products. Understanding of SLDC, software development tools, agile, and/or DevOps preferred.
• Deep empathy for our audience of developers and IT leaders
• Project management mindset and experienced with cross-functional collaboration

Staff Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations

Job Grade

The Staff Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations is a Grade 8.

Responsibilities

• Extends that of the Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations responsibilities
• Take on a bigger role with leading simultaneous CS initiatives as the DRI with driving steerco meetings
• Provide clear and frequent communications (docs, decks, presentations) to executives with clear proposals, insights, and recommendations
• Design and develop annual and multi-year Customer Success strategies
• Act as the strategic advisor to CS leadership through strategy development and deep area expertise

Requirements

• Extends that of the Senior Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations requirements
• Experienced in leading internal steerco meetings to arrive at a successful and on-time outcomes
• Unflappable presentation and demo delivery with executive awareness
• Experienced leading cross-functional initiatives in large organizations (i.e., 2000+ employees)

 

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