Customer Success Associate

Shorthand • Seattle, WA

1d • $70,000 - $90,000 • Remote

About The Position

As a member of the Customer Success team, you’ll work closely with your colleagues in Customer Success, Sales, Technical Support, Growth & Marketing, and Engineering. You’ll guide our customers through best practices in the Shorthand platform, ensuring they achieve their publishing goals. You’ll also assist with resources and support for all user groups.

In this role, you’ll:
Drive customer success by ensuring clients achieve their business outcomes through effective Shorthand adoption while serving as a trusted strategic advisor.
Become an expert in using Shorthand.
Establish and revise goals each customer is aiming to achieve with Shorthand, and track progress towards those goals.
Be the go-to person for customer accounts assigned to you, and develop deep relationships with key personnel in your growth accounts.
Educate customers on how to use the platform and quickly help them to understand the value proposition of Shorthand for their business.
Lead co-creation sessions and provide specific story feedback to customers.
Guide and advise all customers as required.
Provide an outstanding customer experience at all times.
Provide feedback on customers, customer experience, performance and outcomes when requested.
Quickly and efficiently answer customer questions, resolve issues or escalate them to the correct person via relevant customer communication platforms daily.
Triage customer communication to the correct person/team when required.
Handle basic account admin for customers and ensure all customer data is up-to-date.
Run webinars and demos, and record/edit short tutorial videos.
Assist with creating or maintaining training materials and resources, guided by your direct customer interaction and experience.
Identify and escalate customer growth opportunities to Sales.
Collaborate daily with colleagues in Customer Success, Sales, Growth & Marketing, Engineering, Technical Support and Finance.
Report bugs and potential platform improvements.
Use relevant tools for daily customer interactions, light data analysis and administrative duties (including but not limited to Front, Elevio, Pipedrive, Chargebee, Notion, Linear, Shorthand Community).

Requirements

• Minimum of 1+ years of experience in a customer-facing role.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• An eye for or experience in design.
• Experience in web design or publishing (CMS or website management).
• HTML, CSS and/or Javascript experience.
• Experience with web analytics and SEO
• Experience in a small business, startup or B2B SaaS environment.
• Very high achievement in your chosen field as demonstrated by outstanding performance in a previous role or academic results.
• A strong preference for remote work.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in journalism, communications, or closely related field.
• Remote work experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive customer success by ensuring clients achieve their business outcomes through effective Shorthand adoption while serving as a trusted strategic advisor.
• Become an expert in using Shorthand.
• Establish and revise goals each customer is aiming to achieve with Shorthand, and track progress towards those goals.
• Be the go-to person for customer accounts assigned to you, and develop deep relationships with key personnel in your growth accounts.
• Educate customers on how to use the platform and quickly help them to understand the value proposition of Shorthand for their business.
• Lead co-creation sessions and provide specific story feedback to customers.
• Guide and advise all customers as required.
• Provide an outstanding customer experience at all times.
• Provide feedback on customers, customer experience, performance and outcomes when requested.
• Quickly and efficiently answer customer questions, resolve issues or escalate them to the correct person via relevant customer communication platforms daily.
• Triage customer communication to the correct person/team when required.
• Handle basic account admin for customers and ensure all customer data is up-to-date.
• Run webinars and demos, and record/edit short tutorial videos.
• Assist with creating or maintaining training materials and resources, guided by your direct customer interaction and experience.
• Identify and escalate customer growth opportunities to Sales.
• Collaborate daily with colleagues in Customer Success, Sales, Growth & Marketing, Engineering, Technical Support and Finance.
• Report bugs and potential platform improvements.
• Use relevant tools for daily customer interactions, light data analysis and administrative duties (including but not limited to Front, Elevio, Pipedrive, Chargebee, Notion, Linear, Shorthand Community).

Benefits

• Fully remote working and an allowance for a co-working space.
• An allowance for setting up your home office, a laptop, and any peripherals you need to do your job.
• An Employee Option Plan for all team members.
• True autonomy, with freedom to own and grow the role you occupy.
• The opportunity to work in a growing SaaS company that is still small enough that you can make a real impact.
• A Health and Wellness fund to support a healthy lifestyle, as well as access to coaching and counselling services.
• Paid parental leave if you are growing your tribe.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees