Senior Customer Success Manager
nTopology
Overview:
We are looking for a passionate Senior Customer Success Manager to support our team and help drive value for our customers by providing strategic consultation for leveraging nTopo platform and its applications (use cases). This role will be responsible for supporting the entire customer journey, mitigating roadblocks for adoption, and for evaluating customer health in order to effectively support GTM revenue goals. This role will also work collaboratively with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applications Engineering, Product, and other departments to help drive the voice of the customer into everything we do at nTop.
This role reports to the Customer Success team manager for North America.
What You’ll Do:
- Work as a strategic advisor to your customer providing them with guidance and resources they need to realize both their technical and business goals
- Own a book of business and ensure customer goals and success criteria are established and executed against in order to provide risk and growth opportunities 2+ quarters out
- Partner with Sales to effectively execute against the risk and growth opportunities identified
- Develop actionable risk and growth plans that support the achievement of our net retention goals, including internal account plans and weekly forecasts
- Proactively drive customers’ applications through from concept to value, and ensure that customer feedback is proactively provided to R&D in order to support VOC & roadmap initiatives
- Responsible for executing Business Reviews with customers, including proactively working with internal and external (Customer) stakeholders to ensure that we’re developing content that supports value-based conversations
- Develop and run customer kickoffs, training & implementation plans, and work with collaboratively with our Onboarding Engineering Team to ensure that customer onboarding plans deliver on initial technical goals in less than 90 days
- Collaborate with Solutions Engineers to ensure that Customers have the expertise they need to execute against their applications goals, and proactively address blockers and technical challenges
- Coach users on general nTop best practices (notebook management, file sharing, data types and common pitfalls) to create healthy adoption
- Collaborate with Solutions Engineers to ensure that we’re creating valuable workflows & application solutions that deliver on Customers’ business goals
- Prioritize the building of Champions to ensure self-sustaining adoption at growing account
- Help customers explore, illustrate, and measure their design problems or opportunities, and advise on nTop solutions that address them
- Serve as the main point of contact to customers and liaison between customers and the rest of the nTopology teams
- Serve as an expert to your customers as it relates to nTopology applications and industry best practices
- Lead planning meetings including presenting software updates and their relevance to customer applications, application (use case) review, as well as high-level best practices consultation & prudent delegation of follow-ups internally and externally
- Seek relationships with key/influential customer commercial stakeholders including engineering management, IT, and program management
- Support Sales in navigating customer organization to uncover additional nTopology applications across new teams & groups
- Leverage tools and automation in order to track and manage customer health and establish required touchpoints with customers
Who You Are:
- 5+ years experience working in a Customer Success, Account Management, Client Services or other similarly customer-centric role
- You have 3+ years experience in managing Fortune 500 companies, and demonstrated experience in building key relationships at these accounts
- You have demonstrated experience in executing Renewals/Retention Playbooks in a way that enables you to achieve quarterly revenue targets, including bringing learnings back to the business
- A background and passion for advocating on behalf of your customers, including having the ability to bring the right internal and external resources together in order to effectively solve or address a customer opportunity or challenge
- The ability to act with a high level of autonomy, you will be expected to take full ownership of your book of business and make key decisions that drive critical customer outcomes; including deciding when to include our executive team or c-suite in customer escalations, how to de-risk or de-escalate customer issues and conflict and advocating to internal teams including sales, solutions engineering, etc.
- You are familiar with tools within Sales & Customer Success tech stacks - Salesforce, Catalyst, Tableau, etc.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate customer health data into insights
- Exceptional communication skills (written and verbal), highly organized, collaborative and detail oriented
- Strong PowerPoint and presentation skills
- Empathetic towards customers and colleagues, with the desire to achieve a common goal
- Results-driven mentality, with a bias for speed and action
- Comfortable in a startup environment where people move quickly and wear many hats in a dynamic setting
It’s A Plus If You Also Have These:
- Working knowledge of additive manufacturing and other advanced manufacturing techniques within A&D, Automotive, Medical or Consumer industries.
- Strong understanding of engineering software (CAD, CAE, CAM) and experience in a technical environment
- Previous experience with nTopology as a software
- STEM degree such as mechanical engineering
- Engineering and CAD software experience such as Solidworks, Catia, Abaqus, Ansys, Matlab
- Experience with coding and programming
- Project management experience