Customer Success Manager

For the last 100 years, companies have operated primarily under a product-centric business model, where the goal was to make, ship, and sell more units. Today, there’s a demand to have products and services delivered on a continual, subscription basis; to upgrade and access new innovations and features constantly. This is the end of ownership and it changes everything. Our vision is “The World Subscribed” where one day every company will be a part of the Subscription Economy® (a phrase coined by our CEO, Tien Tzuo).

Zuora’s leading, cloud-based software solution automates all subscription order-to-revenue operations in real-time for any business. Companies in any industry can launch new businesses, shift products to subscription, implement new pay-as-you-go pricing and packaging models, gain new insights into subscriber behavior, and disrupt market segments to gain competitive advantage. 

We are seeking a proven Customer Success professional to build, lead and scale a best-in-class Customer Success function to support Zuora’s growth ambitions: to be the company to whom the world’s best companies turn to for driving the technology and business transformations necessary to win in the Subscription Economy. 

You will build lasting relationships with our most important clients from successful launches to identification of new use cases, and ongoing strategic support that increases satisfaction, maximizes the Zuora experience and ultimately drives revenue retention and growth. We win when our customers win. 

As our Customer Success Manager you will manage day-to-day operational and long term strategic business relationships with Zuora’s strategic customers. The CSM promotes adoption of Zuora’s products and services and positions Zuora to meet the current and future business requirements of our customers. The CSM will also play a critical role in managing customer escalations and proactively communicating upcoming product changes and enhancements. Cultivating key customers as Zuora advocates in the Zuora community and subscription economy is a requirement for this role.

The CSM will have excellent working relationships with other representatives of Zuora who will be active within their account(s). Specifically, a strong collaborative partnership with the Sales, Support, Services and Product teams will be key to this role. The CSM is a positive advocate for the customer within Zuora and will be a professional representative at all times in this post-sale role.

The keys to success in this role are the ability to facilitate work sessions with all levels in a customer organization, troubleshoot to identify gaps between best practice and actual usage of Zuora, and clearly communicate recommendations that enable the customer to fully adopt Zuora in order to grow their business in the Subscription Economy. Join us and make shift happen!

What you’ll do & achieve:

• Retain and grow the revenue for existing Zuora customers, owning renewal of customer base and churn target.
• Support customers coming out of implementation and launch and assist with accelerating time to revenue for the customer and Zuora.
• Define operational metrics, objectives and key results for your customers.  Achieve operational excellence by continuous measurement and communication of these to peers and leadership.  
• Standardize CSM customer engagement and measure its impact at each stage of the customer lifecycle.
• Serve as a key “Voice of the Customer” internally at Zuora, as well as serve as Executive Sponsor and key business partner for strategic customers.

• Work with customers to develop a success plan that outlines how Zuora adoption will address their critical needs both immediately and, in the future.
• Partner with sales leadership to grow Zuora revenue via upsells while providing an ideal customer experience.
• Conduct optimization workshops to document business processes, identify opportunities for improvements and gaps in best practices, and create and present recommendations to customers who have deployed Zuora Billing and Revpro.
• Anticipate customer's future needs and requirements by serving as the customer’s voice to the entire Zuora organization, including product, marketing, professional services and sales
• Trusted Advisor for key business owners and executives including CxOs
• Cultivate relationships with key customer roles from functional owners to senior management
• Proactively identify where and how Zuora capabilities can deliver incremental business value
• Recommend solutions to changing client requirements and emergent problems by carefully identifying and assessing all risks and benefits of possible approaches
• Build account expansion and retention plan with Account Executive with clear objectives, requirements and action plan that delineates roles, responsibilities and target timelines with the aim of driving value within their current contract with Zuora.
• Ensure satisfactory resolution of Zuora-related technical issues, including coordination of cross-departmental Zuora resources (e.g., Support, Professional Services engagements)
• Drives adoption through innovation, product demonstration and customer alignment
• Serves as a the customer’ advocate  to other Zuora resources in Product, Services, and Sales, as needed
• Defines and executes a Success Plan addressing conflict along the way

What you’ll need to be successful:

• 4+ Years in a customer-facing or Customer Success role within an enterprise software or software-as-a-service organisation.
• Familiarity with implementation and support of Financial, ERP, CRM or other large scale business systems 
• Strong operational discipline with an analytical, process-oriented mindset and a data-based approach to decision making and assessment
• A passion for Customer Engagement and service mentality
• Proven record of creating and maintaining business partnerships and relationships “do-er” mentality with a hands-on, passionate, curious, persistent approach and the grit to get things done
• Strong ability to align technical concepts & features to business needs
• Resourceful and creative problem solving  skills in order to provide optimal business or technical solutions
• Excellent oral and written communication skills along with an ability to work cross-functionally with a broad range of internal and external clients
• Demonstrated effectiveness at facilitating workshops as well as excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
• Outstanding presentation development and delivery skills, with the ability to speak to end users and C-level Executives
• Excel in a collaborative, team environment while able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and requests
• Proven ability to present technical concepts effectively to diverse stakeholder groups and to engage effectively with senior executives of large enterprises on both technical and business topics
• Experience working with a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team and customer base.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Travel up to 40% of the time (including some possible international travel)

About Zuora

Zuora provides the leading cloud-based subscription management platform that functions as a system of record for subscription businesses across all industries. Powering the Subscription Economy®, the Zuora platform was architected specifically for dynamic, recurring subscription business models and acts as an intelligent subscription management hub that automates and orchestrates the entire subscription order-to-cash process, including billing and revenue recognition. 

At Zuora, every employee is the CEO of their career and leading our mission are over 1,200 passionate and innovative ZEOs who value freedom, responsibility and accountability in equal measure because they have the capacity to make shift happen. Our culture isn’t an empty branding effort – our ZEOs love working here and it shows in our 4+ rating on Glassdoor. We take it very seriously. We encourage our employees to be curious, creative, and stay focused on our shared mission of enabling our customers to be successful.

Zuora serves more than 1,000 companies around the world, including Box, Komatsu, Rogers, Schneider Electric, Xplornet and Zendesk. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Zuora also operates offices in Atlanta, Boston, Frisco, Denver, San Francisco, London, Paris, Beijing, Sydney, Chennai and Tokyo. 

At Zuora, different perspectives, experiences and contributions matter. Everyone counts. Zuora is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. 

To learn more visit www.zuora.com