VP Client Success /Customer Experience Industry / Goldman Sachs backed

San Francisco, CA
United States

Ekomi

201 to 500 employees

eKomi, is Europe's premiere and largest independent provider of transaction-based reviews and ratings. As a Google worldwide partner with over 200+ employees and headquartered in Berlin, Germany with offices in London, Paris, Madrid, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, eKomi has gathered and published over 30,000,000 reviews for customers. More than 14,000 companies leverage eKomi´s social commerce solution to enable trust, increase sales, reduce returns, and drive organic traffic through self-perpetuating User-Generated-Content. eKomi´s groundbreaking social commerce technology enables online businesses to generate seller ratings, customer reviews, product reviews, social recommendations, and create viral effects on websites, social media, and search engines allowing for a successful revenue generating impact for businesses.

eKomi - The Feedback Company, helps companies to increase customer satisfaction and revenues with authentic and valuable customer reviews through their web-based social SaaS technology.

Company Info

Job description

Given our business model, where our customers pay us over time, Customer Success is absolutely vital to our long-term profitability. We will not be successful unless our customers are receiving massive value from our service. As such, we need a senior executive to own driving success for our customers. This role includes responsibilities for Customer Success activities (e.g., on-boarding, support, services, adoption, advocacy, retention, etc.) and outcomes (e.g., renewals, up-sell, etc.).

This position can be based remotely, in our office in Atlanta, Los Angeles or in Berlin.

  • Drive Customer Success Outcomes
    • Increase renewal rates and reduce churn
    • Expand our revenue in accounts through cross-sell and up-sell
    • Influence future lifetime value through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction and overall health scores
    • Drive new business growth through greater advocacy and reference-ability
  • Define and Optimize Customer Lifecycle
    • Map customer journey
    • Develop listening points in journey (e.g., usage, satisfaction, etc.)
    • Standardize interventions for each point in journey
    • Define segmentation of customer base and varying strategies
    • Identify opportunities for continuous improvement
    • Learn from best practices in industry
  • Manage Customer Success Activities
    • Onboarding
    • Training
    • Professional Services
    • Customer Support
    • Customer Success Management
    • Renewals
    • Cross-sell / Up-sell
    • Advocacy
  • Measure Effectiveness of Customer Success
    • Define operational metrics for team, eg. in our case mainly whilst increasing review generation accross multiple channels
    • Establish system for tracking metrics
    • Create cadence for review within team
    • Expose subset of metrics to executive team, company and board
  • Lead World-class Customer Success Team, but only after having proven hands-on success
    • Recruit experienced leaders for each functional role
    • Attract high potential individual contributors into team
    • Create rapid onboarding process for new team members
    • Foster collaboration within team and across customer lifecycle
    • Encourage continuous learning within team
  • Enhance Effectiveness and Efficiency Through Technology
    • Support systems
    • Customer marketing software
    • Reference and advocacy solutions
    • Customer Success Management platform
  • Inspire Customer Success Across Company
    • Create company-wide culture of Customer Success
    • Align with Marketing around marketing to existing clients
    • Align with Product around driving product roadmap
    • Align with Sales around cross-sell and up-sell and focus on selling with a retention focus
    • Align with Finance around measurement and forecasting
    • Align with Executive Team around key metrics and objectives
    • Drive company-wide definition of ideal customer
    • Create company-wide customer feedback loop

Required Experience/Skills:

  • 5+ years experience in leading customer-facing organizations, ideally within Customer Exeprience space
  • Ability to manage influence through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building
  • Ideally combined background of post-sale and sales experience
  • Strong empathy for customers AND passion for revenue and growth
  • Deep understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue business models
  • Analytical and process-oriented mindset
  • Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement
  • Enthusiastic and creative leader with the ability to inspire others
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Relevant Bachelor’s degree; preference for computer science or related degrees

Company Description

eKomi's groundbreaking technology, trusted by 15k+ businesses worldwide such as ALLIANZ, BMW, DHL,... enables businesses to generate verifiable seller ratings, customer reviews, product reviews, social recommendations and create viral effects on websites, social media and search engines allowing for a successful revenue generating impact for businesses.

eKomi is backed by Goldman Sachs and headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Our employees enjoy the freedom to build something together with us, we give you the tools and training you need to succeed.

Work location: San Francisco, CA

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