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The Customer Success Manager will join a team focused on nurturing the growth and retention and success of Klaviyo’s SMB customers.
You thrive on data. Supporting a customer base of hundreds of emerging eCommerce brands, you’ll identify segments that need support and development, and work with the team to drive adoption and success for those customers at scale.
We are looking for a CSM that is passionate about providing the best experience to customers who are scaling their businesses with Klaviyo. This is a great opportunity for someone with a passion for customer success and aptitude for learning new technology. Ideal candidates will have a previous background in eCommerce/email marketing, Customer Success, or serving as a trusted advisor for your customers. We are interested in individuals who have a track record of finding creative solutions to unique problems, who thrive in challenging situations and want to apply these skills to solve for customers using our software at scale.
The CSM is responsible for coaching a wide variety of customers throughout the customer journey through a multitude of methods: communicating thoughtfully via 1:many or 1:1 interactions is critical to drive strong product adoption, eliminate friction for our user base, and to drive a long lasting relationship with our customers.
How You Will Make a Difference:
- Facilitating customer success and growth throughout the customer lifecycle.
- Supporting a rapidly growing customer base while balancing an ‘at-scale’ mentality with a customer-centric approach is crucial for the success of the CSM.
- Research and develop 1:1 and 1:many customer engagement strategies through email, live training and proactive scaled at-risk outreach.
- Deliver actionable insights and strategic recommendations cross functionally to Sales, Support, and Product/Engineering teams.
- Utilizing Gainsight’s Journey Orchestrator, action insights and data into proactive outreach to mitigate churn risk and facilitate customer growth.
Who You Are:
- 2+ years of customer-facing experience with a track record for building and nurturing relationships and problem solving
- Strong analytical skills, including experience with Excel, Salesforce, Tableau, or similar software, and experience turning data into insights to fuel your ideas
- Proven track record in driving product adoption through with a coach’s mentality.
- Excellent organizational, project management skills and communication skills via phone, video conference and email
- Able to adapt in a quickly changing environment
- Track record managing customer relationships through Salesforce, Gainsight or similar CRMs
- Experience developing training or educational content for a variety of audiences is a plus
- Self-starter who thrives in both collaborative and autonomous environments
Nice To Have:
- Experience at high growth SaaS company
- Past Customer Success title
- Experience supporting customers in the SMB segment
- Experience using email marketing/E-Commerce platforms or advising customers on marketing strategy is 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.