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Onboarding Specialists play a key role in setting up our customers for long-term success with Klaviyo. As an Onboarding Specialist, you are the first point of contact for new customers, guiding them through their first 30-90 days to ensure a successful implementation of the Klaviyo platform, delivering fast time to value and a solid foundation to build their marketing and growth strategy. This includes designing customized project plans, providing proactive, 1:1 support that is critical to driving strong product adoption, eliminating friction for our user base, and establishing long-lasting relationships with our customers.
How you will make a difference:
- Own customer relationships from post-sale through successful “go live” in the first 30 to 90 days, onboarding multiple clients at a time to set them up for long-term success
- Develop project plans to help customers build out their initial use cases and achieve their immediate business goals, tracking progress and holding customer and internal stakeholders accountable to meeting key onboarding milestones
- Advise customers on best practices to achieve fast time-to-value, including guidance on product set-up and configuration, testing, and performance analysis
- Provide support and strategic advice on both technical and non-technical related questions (e.g: deliverability, marketing, sales, setup questions)
- Scope and conduct discovery with customers to understand use-cases and integration needs to effectively loop in key internal stakeholders for technical guidance
- Proactively monitor customer dashboards and onboarding success metrics to identify at-risk accounts and prioritize engagement across customer portfolio
- Address any open issues and retention risk through creative problem solving, and act as a point of escalation facilitating action planning and resolution across teams (e.g., Support, Sales)
- Proactively surface, coordinate and drive new ideas to improve the onboarding experience to ultimately reduce friction and Time to Value for customers
Who you are:
- 2-3+ years of customer success or customer onboarding experience with a track record for building and nurturing relationships across multiple accounts at a time
- Experience understanding customer goals, building a customized project plan, and finding creative solutions to reach customers’ key objectives
- Excellent organizational and project management skills with track record of driving outcomes on time
- Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills via phone, video conference, and email, with demonstrated ability to make recommendations and persuade stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to manage customer expectations, relationships, and identify and mitigate risk on as needed basis.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
- Thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced, and quickly changing environment
- Experience managing customer relationships through Salesforce, Certina, or similar CRMs
- Proficient with: Microsoft Office Suite, G-Suite, Google Sheets, PowerPoint
- Experience in marketing technology and advising customers on marketing strategy a plus
- Experience using email marketing platforms and E-Commerce platforms a plus
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Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all our US locations. The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors, including the applicant’s job-related skills, relevant experience, education or training, and work location.
In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility. Please visit Klaviyo Rewards to find out more about our Total Rewards package.
Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Get to Know Klaviyo
We’re Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.
Klaviyo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, veteran or active military status, marital status, criminal record, genetics, retaliation, sexual harassment or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.