Customer Success Manager - SAAS for airline / travel / entertainment
Job Profile:
The Customer Success Manager will be a global evangelist for the platform and ensure all customers understand the value that the platform offers.
You will be the primary point of contact to ensure customers implement and derive maximum value from the platform.
Owning every aspect of the lifecycle of a customer; working with them through implementation, launch, ongoing account support, and working with the Director of Customer Success to eventually grow the relationship.
Building strong relationships with our customers and influencing key decision-makers to adopt our best practices.
Understanding the specific goals of our individual customers, and how our platform can help them achieve those goals.
Collaborating with the engineering team to communicate the critical priorities of our customers, and to relay back appropriate timelines for completion.
Maintaining regular communications (usually weekly) with customers, providing them with success metrics, gathering feedback for product enhancements, and understanding any of their concerns.
Managing the majority of written and verbal communication with our customers, both when things are going well and when they aren't.
Performing detailed analysis to drive actionable insights for our customers.
Keeping track of potential risks with our individual customers, developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
Available to work at hours suitable to our customers in a broad range of time zones
Travel will be required. We estimate 1-2 weeks of international travel per month.
Requirements:
A demonstrated track record of success as a Customer Success Manager, ideally with an early-stage SaaS company working with a smaller group of clients and large deal sizes
Strong written and verbal skills, comfort navigating uncomfortable situations, exceptional "diplomacy" skills and emotional intelligence
An advanced level of Excel knowledge (experience in QuickSight, think-cell and SQL are a plus)
Familiarity with (or a strong interest in) the airline/travel / entertainment industries is desirable
English fluency, and fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese not required but are a plus
Subodh Popalwar
Software Engineer, Memorres
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Role Overview:
We're looking to on-board an enthusiastic Customer Success Specialist who loves delighting customers. The role requires hand-holding customers during on-boarding and making them Astra-nauts (yes, that's what we call our customers & team members!) who are well versed with Astra's platform.
The role will also require collaboration with our sales, security and marketing team. We're a cyber security company with CTOs, engineering leaders & CISOs as our ICP, hence we'll prefer candidates who come with some understanding of principles of computer science.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Ensuring a smooth customer on-boarding
- Championing product adoption
- Maintaining high NPS
- Ensuring renewals of the accounts assigned to you
- Understanding customer requirements and translating them into deliverables.
- You will be attending to customer emails and phone calls on a daily basis
- You will be looking after stakeholder management between various teams and customers.
- Experience working with brand image and promoting value through customer experience
- Building a rapport with the customers
- You will be up-selling and cross-selling complementary Astra products
- You will be ensuring timely delivery by communicating across teams
- Diligently maintain customer success platform
Requirements for this role:
- 1-3 years of experience in customer success
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Technical knowledge required to work in a cyber security organization’s customer-facing role
- Ability to build rapport with the stakeholders
- Willingness to work in a remote setup
Benefits of joining the Astra Squad:
- Embrace the cosy remote work lifestyle.
- Feel the startup adrenaline pumping through your veins.
- Revel in our open, growth-centric ambiance; it's like a digital playground.
- Dive deep into the captivating world of cybersecurity.
- And yes, get ready for some unforgettable workcations—think Chikmagalur & Jim Corbett.
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
- Manage Email Process- Payment, Refunds, Cancellation etc.
- Responsible to provide timely & effective resolutions to customers through emails, chat, etc.
- Knowledge of payments and fintech would be plus
- As the first person in the customer success team, you'll be expected to setup repeatable processes and helping us scale the function as we grow
- Customer obsession & talking to customers on a regular basis with great empathy.
- Deliver a 11* customer experience on all touchpoints.
- Manage a time agnostic team aligning with USA timezones.
- Clear decision making in ambiguous situations and enabling a similar culture within the team.
- Partner with product team to enable ground level learnings and ensuring that customer interests are met.
- 4+ years working in Customer Success or an Account management role; this is a senior-level role.
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills. You can explain complex issues in simple terms and adapt your tone for different users.
- You are a self-starter that anticipates requests and doesn’t need a lot of oversight.
- You nurture customer relationships and don't view them as transactional emails/calls.
- We are location agnostic, We have a small garden office Jayanagar, Bangalore (home to some of the best dosas in India) to jam together on anything that requires space.
- You are somebody who shares the same ethos.
About the role
In Loop, we work in super small teams, in very high velocity.
You will be part of such a team, and work day to day with all the team at Loop, plus the founders.
As a generalist, you can wear many hats, and will function across business units.
- Customer Success: You'll work directly with customers, and make sure that we are building what users want
- Sales: Speak with customers directly, in a pre-sale fashion. Maintain communications and optimise our CRM
- Must-haves: Engineering Background is a plus.
Must haves.
- Must have done this before, or be willing to learn fast.
- Must be fast. We operate at 200mph, and so do you. -Must be relentless. We never stop, so you are even faster than us. -Must have customer driven. We think customers first and so should you. -Must be driven and go above and beyond. -Must be able to explain and communicate clearly. -Must be prepared to challenge us and disagree. We are thinking and acting as a team. -Must be able to work autonomously. -Must want to work hard. -Last but not least, you are genuinely a nice person.
Big plus You are a founder before
Founders
The team is made of Staff engineers, Senior Managers with a combined 25+ years of experience in Google, Uber, Flipkart and ShareChat.
Sundar is an IITM CS Graduate. Previously, he built Traffic Models, Driver positioning algos that power ETAs for Uber, led teams that built the RecSys for Moj(Indian equivalent of TikTok with >100M users), and represented India in ACM ICPC World Finals.
Anand is a Bits Pilani CS Graduate. Previously he has worn hats including building the first supply chain management of Flipkart in 2012 and being in the first 100 eng, running a FinTech startup for 1.5 years, managing large teams eng at Uber and building the pickup experience for Uber.
Vinod is a Bits Pilani EE Graduate. Previously he was a senior manager at Google managing data science,analytics and operations functions for products across several verticals like assitant,search, trust.
(70%), Europe, Middle East and Rest of the world (30%).
They work as consultant business partners for our customers, driving high-growth for them;
while working closely to build and launch apps, drive installs, create and convert engaging
marketing campaigns, and draw insights from in-depth analytics. A large focus of the customer
success team is to scale the business and grow revenue for merchants via their mobile app built
on our platform.
What you will do:
● Create plans for the success of your customers while collaborating with
sales,engineering and product teams. You own,track and improve performance metrics
for customers along with revenue growth.
● You will be responsible for on-boarding and training new customers on the platform
● Act as a Strategic Consultant for your customers to develop a deep understanding of
their business goals and motivations
● Provide recommendations for campaigns, features, growth strategies and ensure a
seamless shopping experience for the merchant’s customers
● Coordinate with support & tech teams to resolve product issues
● Build a trustworthy relationship with customers to ensure retention & reduce churn. While
continuously working with them to derive value from the platform
● Prepare weekly/monthly business reports and assist customers with strategies to
improve business growth and track their month on month usage of the platform
● Partner closely with cross-functional teams to translate business needs and product
requirements into new solutions for customers
● Strategically manage account escalations & provide timely resolutions
● Help drive customer references and case studies
● Optimize existing business processes and work on customer success initiatives
What we are looking for:
● 2 to 12 years of proven experience in an Account Management/Customer Success or
Consulting role in a B2B SaaS or a tech company
● Experience in the ecommerce ecosystem is a huge plus along with an understanding of
the customer lifecycle
● Should be open to working in the US time zone (5pm IST to 2am IST)
● Can take ownership of the customer relationship post sales and give strategic solutions
to grow the account
● Strong interpersonal skills and experience in building relationships in different capacities
with a wide range of customers
● Experience or understanding of Digital Marketing/Growth to drive results
● Can work smoothly across engineering, sales, marketing and support teams in a fast
paced environment
● Customer centricity as a philosophy in all interactions
Benefits:
● Competitive Salary
● Flexible work hours. We value work-life balance
● Opportunity to work with some of the biggest Enterprise customer
Executive – Customer Success (for a leading SaaS Product)
About Sulekha.com
Sulekha is one of India’s largest digital business and consumer brands that has transformed local services ecosystem through a powerful need fulfillment and monetization platform that generates qualified, parameterized leads to local service SMBs every day in 40 cities. Sulekha’s unique, scalable digital platform, stapled to an expanding digital-mobile-local opportunity, has positioned it to serve in 24,000+ location-categories for purchase-oriented users (24+ M user needs p.a.) and growth-oriented businesses (2+ M active local businesses).
About Pro-Manage
Pro-Manage is a pioneering tech- and AI-based Marketing-as-a-Service platform developed to serve multi-location enterprise clients increase, manage and measure digital engagement opportunities with prospects and customers, leveraging several valuable business and technology partnerships with global leaders such as Google GMB/Chat, Microsoft Bing, Meta WhatsApp/Instagram, Knowlarity Cloud telephony and others. Pro-Manage is a Sulekha brand initiative.
Pro-Manage is a powerful and sophisticated marketing SaaS platform that has attracted highly regarded brands as its clients: Indian Oil, Shriram Finance, Apollo Pharmacy, Naturals, Sterling Resorts, Muthoot Finance, Aadhaar Housing Finance, Shriram Transport Finance, City Union Bank, O2 Spa, Page 3 Salons, Urban Nomads, CADD Centre and more.
Pro-Manage is developed using advanced technologies, design thinking, continuous discovery, agile development and product management methodologies. The cross-functional Pro-Manage team uses integrated customer-centric product-led marketing and growth paradigms designed to attract and retain targeted customers, maximizing life-time value and minimizing customer acquisition efforts and costs.
Pro-Manage is developed and offered by Sulekha, one of India’s largest digital business and consumer brands that has transformed local services ecosystem through a AI-based need fulfillment and monetization platform that generates millions of qualified, parameterized service requests to local service SMBs every day in 40 cities.
Pro-Manage aspires to be the dominant, industry-leading and technologically the most sophisticated marketing SaaS platform in India with 500+ enterprise customers in the next two years.
Pro-Manage and Sulekha have three of the most well-regarded firms as its investors: Norwest Venture Partners (Palo Alto, US), Mitsui (Tokyo), and GIC (sovereign wealth fund of Singapore).
Job Description & Expectations
We are looking for an executive to help a portion of the 65,000+ customers of Sulekha achieve tangible business outcomes. He/she will closely work with paid customers of Sulekha to achieve the desired goals of Sulekha. This portfolio will be managed by the Pro-Manage SME product of Sulekha.
Pro-Manage Boost operations
a. Profile Enrichment of existing and new customers of Sulekha who want to enhance their presence in Google, Bing, Facebook and others as we add on, by working on their profile content.
b. Deliver on KYC and 8 vectors of digital presence that include posts, photos, videos directions, keywords to enhance the value of customers trying the Sulekha Pro-Manage Boost product
c. Email, Phone call and WhatsApp engagement with customers to obtain content and optimize the Google listings & on other platforms.
d. Closely work with cross functional teams including central design team, central keyword research team and marketing teams to deliver value.
e. Pro-mange Dashboard Training supporting the customer to understand the dashboard.
f. Performance Management for the customers, analyzing the profile performance sharing the reports and insights with the customers and recommend changes to enhance the profile.
Education, Professional and Personal Attributes
· B.Tech/BE/B.Sc. graduation is preferred
· Excellent communication skills, with good knowledge in Hindi and 1 regional language. This is mandatory to help with category expertise
· Good analytical knowledge including working knowledge of all Microsoft tools and awareness of digital advertising tools like Google, Facebook is preferred
· Min. 1 year of experience in digital marketing including interacting with customers will be preferred
· Should possess an innate love of data and ability to see new patterns that impact business
· Positive, initiative driven and passionate about digital marketing
· Result oriented, entrepreneurial, and self-motivated
· Ambitious and flexible
Other aspects
· Reporting to Pro-Manage SME vertical lead
· Must be based out of Chennai with no travel involved
· All days are working from office – no WFH envisaged as of now
What Pro-Manager Offers You
· Opportunity to develop cutting-edge digital SaaS business development expertise
· Develop competence in marketing, product development, customer success and technology
· Highly entrepreneurial and aspirational work environment that inspires and challenges
· Collaborative and fun work environment
· Learning and development program to help you develop skills
· Well-define career path and progression tracking
· Progressive, nurturing and respectful work culture
· Attractive compensation plus incentives
About the Organization
Real Estate Syndicators leverage SyndicationPro to manage billions in real estate assets and thousands of investors. Growing at 17% MoM, SyndicationPro is #1 Platform To Automate Real Estate Fund Raising, Investor Relations, & Close More Deals!
What makes SyndicationPro unique is that it is cash flow positive while maintaining a healthy growth rate and is backed by seasoned investors and real estate magnates. We are also a FirstPrinciples.io Venture Studio Company, giving us the product engineering, growth, and operational backbone in India to scale our team.
Our story has been covered by Bloomberg Business, Yahoo Finance, and several other renowned news outlets.
Why this Role
We are scaling our Customer Support & Success organization and you will have the opportunity to see how the systems and processes are built for an SaaS company that is rapidly scaling. Our Customer Support & Success Team is led by expierened SaaS Operators who can provide you the guidance and mentorship to growth quickly. You will also have the oppurtunity for faster than normal promotion cycles.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Engage with our clients primarily through email, phone, or our ticketing system
- Understand client needs and tackle problems
- Think creatively about technical issues and find ways to change showstoppers into positive ways forward
- Work closely with internal teams and external partners to deep dive on a customer request or Issue to provider resolution within SLA.
- Manage workflow using our systems to ensure nothing falls to the bottom of the to-do list
- Keep current on product releases and updates
- Share the knowledge among your fellow trouble-shooters and create knowledge articles when necessary
- Support Customers working with Migration teams on Data Migrations to our Platform.
- Work on migrating sensitive customer data from a third-party investment platform or Excel to SyndicationPro with minimal supervision.
- Understand the client’s needs and set up the SyndicationPro platform to meet customer expectations.
- A passion for solving problems.
- A way with words that makes technical topics easy to understand
- A keen eye for getting to the root cause of an issue
- A love of helping people
- An ability to manage multiple needs and keep them all on track
- A strong ethos towards helping the team win
- Prior experience in SaaS environments
- Experience with MS Office and data programs
- Attention to detail
- Confidentiality
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Experience in writing professional Emails
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Experience in handling a high volume of customer queries
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Must have 1-2 years of prior experience in SAAS environments.
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Must be comfortable working during night shifts.
Responsibilities
- Understanding business requirements and processes from our customers for creating digital applications on our internal no-code tool
- Converting business processes into technology solutions, designing application flow, database design, and connections.
- Create SQL queries for report generation on the platform.
- Build visualizations and dashboards based on business KPIs.
- Create training documents and videos for our users. Support users in the digital requirements.
- Analyze and suggest product and process improvements
- Take and track all customer queries and assist them in using the platform
- Interface with the product team on feature requirements and improvements
Requirements
- At least 2+ years of experience in SQL and implementation of any enterprise platform such as an ERPs etc.
- Ability to grasp business processes and create business processes for digitization of operations.
- Tech, MCA, BCA, or graduation in any technical field.
- Good to have working experience in working on no-code digital solutions or ERPs
Hiring Process
- Aptitude test
- Technical Interview
- Culture Interview
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