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Director, Success Managers - CMT (Head of Media)
Slack is on a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive. Culture is the north star that guides how we work together and with our customers. Are you looking to build something greater than yourself? Do you want to work alongside some of the most dedicated and dynamic people in the industry? If so, Slack just might be the place for you.
The Director, Success Managers - CMT will be responsible for leading a team of customer success professionals to serve some of our largest, most strategic customers within the Communications, Media, and High Tech operating unit at Slack. Focused on our Media industry, you'll develop the strategy and tactics to effectively use your team and shared Customer Success capabilities to deliver best in class outcomes for our largest Media customers as well as up and coming rapid growth organizations in the Media industry.
As a member of our Global Sales and Customer Success leadership team, you will advocate for your customers by driving alignment across Sales, Customer Success, Services, Renewals, Product Management, Marketing and Business Operations.
You will build and develop a world-class team that lives Slack's values. You will sponsor customers throughout their journey, establishing long-term executive relationships that help ensure they realize the full value of Slack. You will identify and drive key initiatives, processes, tools and programs to build our high growth business.
You will ensure that your team delivers on our high growth targets and key performance metrics, including customer health, value realization, advocacy, renewal, and expansion.
What you will be doing:
- As a leader in our Sales and Customer Success organization, you will build, lead and develop a world-class team of CSMs that live Slack's values
- Directly influence the growth of the CMT operating unit and the overall AMER business by developing and implementing strategies that create successful customers in partnership with Sales leaders, Customer Success, Services, Renewals, Partners, Product Management, and your team
- Contribute to Slack's Sales and Customer Success vision and strategy
- Deliver operating unit targets and important metrics through operational execution and discipline
- Build and develop go-to-market strategy of Media industry at Slack
- Continue to build upon the hard-working, fun culture Slack culture
- Personally engage with top prospects by providing direct deal support, and formulating strategies to accelerate deal close in your region.
- Hands-on "get it done" approach to personally create customer wins, model customers, references and case studies, by establishing trusted senior customer relationships.
- Actively engaged in account strategy and a part of implementing the strategy for select accounts
- Align the Slack ecosystem to your specific industries, ensuring we speak our customer's language
- Be an inspirational leader and create a vibrant, inclusive culture that inspires people to do their best work
What you should have:
- 8+ years of experience overseeing customer success or professional services teams and organizations, preferably with strong exposure to SaaS
- A track record for building and growing a world-class organization through talent acquisition, onboarding, and retention, characterized by high productivity and excellent morale
- Experience with the enterprise scale organization and demonstrated leadership to make rapid decisions and problem-solving in this environment
- Demonstrated experience leading and working in a dynamic, high-growth environment
- Strong commitment to growing and developing team members
- Track record of delivering against targets and critical metrics
- Proven success in establishing a clear vision and inspiring change within a Customer facing organization
- Customer-centric attitude that informs strategies, tactics and execution
- Excellent executive-level communication and negotiation skills both with customers and internally
- Experience building executive relationships and driving/influencing change with both fast paced technology startup and large, complex multi-national organizations
- Diplomacy, tact, and poise under pressure when working through customer issues
- Must be open to domestic travel with close alignment with Sales and Customers
For Colorado-based roles: Minimum annual salary of $147,500. You may also be entitled to receive bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
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