[Remote] Strategic Customer Success Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LaunchDarkly is a company focused on improving software delivery and customer experiences. They are seeking a Strategic Customer Success Manager who will guide customers through implementation and adoption of their platform, ensuring customer satisfaction and identifying opportunities for growth.ResponsibilitiesCustomer Onboarding: You will shepherd in new customers from the sales handoff through successful activation in the product. This includes building out success plans to get customers up to speed in the platform, project management through onboarding, helping customers leverage the most appropriate enablement paths and assessing customer’s adoption on an ongoing basisRisk Identification and Mitigation: You’ll work to proactively identify and diagnose risk-inhibiting adoption or that may cause churn and contraction. You’ll own building a risk mitigation strategy and coordinating across the account team to effectively steer the customer to successTechnical Guidance: You’ll maintain a deep level of LaunchDarkly product knowledge and be expected to provide customers with direction on implementation and adoption best practicesPrescriptively Sell: You will maintain a pulse on how our customers are tracking against their key goals and outcomes, identifying opportunities for customers to purchase additional products, services, and adopt new features needed for them to maximize the value of our solutionTrusted Advisor: You understand your customers like no other and have built enough trust to act as an extension of their team. You provide prescriptive guidance to customers to help them get the most out of their LaunchDarkly purchaseBuild Champions & Executive Relationships: You are an expert champion builder. You consistently work to identify & support key advocates within your customers’ organization who actively promote the value of LaunchDarkly. In partnership with your Champion, you’re able to leverage success metrics & value driven insights to gain sponsorship at an Executive levelRenewal and Expansion focused: You are comfortable owning a number and forecasting on a weekly basis. You will work directly with customers, sales and deal desk to execute renewal agreements on time and to identify expansion opportunities within your accountsSkills5+ years in a customer facing role, ideally in account management, customer/partner success or onboarding/implementation with a track record of exceeding targetsExperience owning the renewal process and being held accountable to a retention quota. This is a commercially oriented Customer Success teamStrong discovery and qualification skills; training in Command of the Message, MEDDIC or another sales methodology is preferredStrong project management skills. You should have experience holding customers and cross-functional teams accountable to a timelineExperience working on a technical product ideally interacting with developers or other technical personas as your primary customerExperience with both proactive and reactive customer success motionsWe will teach you all about LaunchDarkly, but you should have an existing level of technical knowledge and know-howProven ability to advocate for both your customers and your company. You know how to be the voice of the customer in the company while mediating between the customer's requests and the company's visionStrong discovery and qualification skills; training in Command of the Message, MEDDIC or another sales methodology is preferredExperience within the DevOps space preferredBenefitsRestricted Stock Units (RSUs)Health, vision, and dental insuranceMental health benefitsCompany OverviewLaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that allows software development teams to deliver to their customers. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Oakland, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://launchdarkly.com/.