Customer Success Manager, Higher Education
Remote - South Carolina - USA
At Blackbaud, our vision is to power an Ecosystem of Good® that builds a better world, and our global Customer Success center of excellence exists to ensure customers achieve their desired outcomes and have a strong experience using Blackbaud solutions and services. At its center, the Customer Success Manager (CSM) is responsible for the proactive partnership with each customer, leveraging expertise of the social good sector and the pivotal role of cloud technology and data to help customers maximize value from their existing solutions towards defined, measurable, and verifiable outcomes.
As transformational agents who proactively conduct the customer experience, each CSM’s primary focus is to deliver, in a measurable way, 1:1 and 1:many success planning and related onboarding, adoption and health programming with customers (on a tiered basis according to their investment) throughout the customer journey. This includes onboarding assistance and thereafter regular executive business reviews backed by joint success plans and sentiment tracking. Every CSM should leverage data and insight to proactively manage risks to customers’ success, demonstrate value to customers, and help accelerate their progress. The role is relationship-focused and aligns our users and Blackbaud to shared goals, resulting in lower customer churn, more referrals, and increased investments in our solutions over time.
CSMs are responsible for retention of our customers, and organized for the most part by region, vertical, size, and/or product, with robust use of customer success tools to effectively execute responsibilities. They are also customer advocates, serving as voice of the customer within Blackbaud, internally guiding customer strategy; product, service and support requirements; experience across Market Groups and Verticals; product and relationship marketing and other communications; and other functional areas.
This position will be based remotely in the United States working with customers in the Higher Education vertical.
Responsibilities as a CSM:
Understand the needs and priorities of customers across the social good ecosystem, industry best practices, and how our specific solution capabilities drive value.
Build and maintain strong strategic relationships with c-suite executives, senior directors and managers, and other key stakeholders across our customers, gaining trust and respect.
Develop and execute jointly agreed success plans with each customer, underpinned by regular executive business review meetings, to ensure speed to results against their desired outcomes.
Onboard new customers, ensuring that they understand how best to leverage the support, services, training, community, and other resources available.
Analyze and share customer product usage data and rapidly identify …
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Must be based in the United States
Benefits/PerksDiverse and inclusive work environment Equal opportunity employer Flexible paid time off Flexible remote work culture Flexible schedule Generous parental leave Medical, dental, and vision insurance Opportunities to connect to build community and belonging Pet Insurance Pet insurance, legal and identity protection Professional development opportunities Remote-first company Remote-first workforce Remote work Tuition reimbursement program Volunteer for vacation
Tasks- Build relationships
- Develop success plans
- Onboard new customers
- Support marketing initiatives
Account management C Cloud Technology Communication Communications Customer Advocacy Customer service Customer Success Data analysis Data Management Development Gainsight Leadership Marketing Onboarding Presentation Relationship Management Sales
Experience3 years
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