Customer Success Manager - Remote Eligible

Senior Customer Success Manager

8x8, Inc. believes that CX limits were meant to be shattered. We connect people and organizations through seamless communication on the industry's most integrated platform for Customer Experience—combining Contact Center, Unified Communications, and CPaaS APIs. The 8x8 Platform for CX integrates AI at every level to enable personalized customer journeys, drive operational excellence and insights, and facilitate team collaboration.

We help customer experience and IT leaders become the heartbeat of their organizations, empowering them to unlock the potential of every interaction. With one platform, one ecosystem, and one data model, you can turn every team into a customer-facing team and unify your CX to conquer the complexity.

As an organization, we are looking for Team8s who are AI-proficient, open to innovation, and skilled in leveraging AI for efficiency and growth.

The 8x8 Customer Success team grows long-term profitable customer relationships by making strategic, operational and measurable contributions to customers' unique business objectives. As the quarterback and driver of account enablement, adoption, and end-user engagement, the Customer Success Team is directly impacting 8x8 revenue with strong customer retention. As a Senior Customer Success Manager, you will proactively build relationships, identify and mitigate risk and expand product adoption within a specified book of business. The right candidate will be adept at managing multiple priorities without sacrifice to proactive customer delight in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain monthly recurring revenue for our most valued customers by employing proven strategies which drive product adoption
• Responsible for on-time contract renewals
• Quarterback internal and external initiatives through strategic account plans, customer business reviews and cross-functional partnerships with sales, support, professional services, product management and other teams
• Develop strong multi-threaded customer relationships and serve in the role of trusted advisor to 8x8 customers
• Analyze health metrics and provide leadership and/or execution of adoption and retention plays thru both internal and external resources
• Effectively employ multi-channel communication strategies that leverage our most effective customer touch-points including video, e-mail, phone, channel partners, and internal & external champions
• Contribute to lifetime revenue expansion by identifying upsell opportunity organically via stakeholder consultations and proactively addressing renewal risk
• Represent the voice of the customer within 8x8, serving as the customer advocate cross-functionally and closing the loop with the customer with results

Qualifications:

• 5+ years direct and verifiable enterprise-level customer success experience
• Proven track record of success with a verifiable history of exceeding sales and customer satisfaction goals
• Driven by personal, team and company achievement with a commitment to excellence
• Possess that rare blend of technical expertise and sales acumen wrapped in a strong customer-centric mentality
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and dot-connecting skills with the ability to develop quick, accurate situational awareness
• Enterprise-ready, solution-oriented mindset to understand and solve complex customer issues
• Experience and comfort interacting with and influencing C-level executives
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal, with understanding of situational best practices
• Excellent presentation skills from small to large audiences
• Ability to lead, manage or influence both internal 8x8 resources as well as customer resources to achieve successful outcomes
• SaaS experience required
• Experience in Video, Contact Center or Web Collaboration desired
• BS or equivalent education and relevant experience