Director, West Enterprise Customer Success
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Why We Need You;
As PagerDuty’s Director of North America West Enterprise Customer Success, you will have the responsibility for leading a team of success managers for the western region of the United States. Under your leadership the team members will engage with PagerDuty’s largest high tech strategic customers who have 360 relationships with us. The role includes increasing product and platform adoption, improving renewal rates, and driving measurable customer business value to accelerate their digital journey. Through alignment with Sales and Partner leadership, you will drive all aspects of leading and coaching the team to enable Pager Duty’s growth in the enterprise business including reducing downgrades/churn and accelerating expansion. This strategic, hands-on leader will have demonstrated a track record in a modern SaaS company by hiring and developing experienced team members, in creating a culture of customer centricity, operationalizing success plans and continuous learning and delivering industry leading customer success outcomes.
How You Impact our Vision;
- Build and lead a team of high performing Success Managers and who are focused on making every customer successful.
- Create a scalable success methodology to ensure the team is engaging strategically with their customers and to drive optimum business value.
- Partner closely with sales leadership for deal constructs to be inclusive of premier support, PagerDuty University and professional services to accelerate customer implementation of the Pagerduty platform.
- Build and nurture executive relationships across top high tech accounts to solidify our partnership and commitment to the customer while penetrating deeper into the accounts ecosystem in order to strengthen our understanding of their business imperatives.
- Align with the company cross functionally to deliver an integrated customer experience from pre-sales to post-sales that optimizes customer satisfaction, net revenue retention, gross margins, and net promoter scores.
- Manage operational components for renewals, customer satisfaction, premier success engagements, partner engagements and customer adoption metrics.
- Create evangelists by listening to customers closely and delighting them with our user experience and service.
- Based on customer feedback, partner closely with our Product Marketing and Engineering organizations on the product roadmap.
- The success metrics in this role will include ensuring customer renewals, lowering churn and downgrades, increasing customer adoption and delivering quantifiable business value results ultimately driving platform expansion.
About You;
- Proven track record of trusted advisor to the executives at Fortune 500 companies in the high tech vertical with strong consultative skills.
- Ability to collaborate with sales, partner and other cross-functional teams to overachieve on mutually aligned revenue growth in a company to company 360 relationship.
- Exceptional leader of high integrity, intellect, and character who can execute a vision for the group and plan, hire, lead, and inspire teams to achieve extraordinary results consistently quarter over quarter.
- Demonstrated success in delivering revenue numbers, reducing churn and downgrades, producing accurate forecasts.
- Experience managing large projects and developing consultative and technical teams including third party delivery organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to manage customer accounts in deep partnership with sales organizations
Minimum Qualifications;
- 13-15 years experience with a combination of working in a consulting firm, running a team of consultants, and leading success organizations in a SaaS company.
- Bachelor's degree
Preferred Qualifications;
- A deep understanding of engineering DevOps evolution, and digital transformation in IT organizations.
- MBA Degree
PagerDuty offers:
Competitive salaries and company equity
Comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental, and vision plans for you, your spouse and family
401K with 1% match
Pre-tax commuter benefits, FSA, cell phone allowance and more!
Generous parental leave
Paid vacation (3 weeks vacation your first year, 4 weeks afterwards) in addition to 12 paid holidays and ample sick leave
Paid employee Volunteer Time - 20 hours per year
Bi-annual company wide hack weeks
Opportunities to get involved in PagerDuty's Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and other diversity initiatives. ERGs are self-organized, employee-run communities focused on advancing a sense of belonging and inclusion for all - members, advocates, and allies.
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