About the position
As a CSM, you are passionate about and have a world-class track record of creating and sustaining happy, referenceable customers that realize full value from the platform and partnership. You have an exceptional ability to establish and nurture stakeholder relationships and align on value objectives and results, acting as the customer's trusted advisor. Acting as the primary interface between the customer and the internal teams at Abnormal, you are adept at: ensuring clear, measurable success criteria is established and attained, driving adoption of platform best practices to optimize ROI, educating on new/upcoming features (which may qualify cross/upsell opportunities), anticipating and proactively de-escalating issues with scalable solutions, and maintaining a feedback loop for key product enhancements / improvement requests. This is a remote role based out the Mid-Atlantic territory to support customers in that region. You must be based in the US Mid-Atlantic region.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the ‘voice of the customer’ and provide internal feedback on how we can better serve them to maximize customer value and retention.
- Schedule, prepare and deliver Business Reviews for customers, with the top priority of proving ROI that leads to renewals/expansion.
- Increase customer adoption of key platform features and best practices to maximize ROI, ensuring the basis for retention, satisfaction, and growth.
- Maintain a deep understanding of our product and roadmap, so you can guide customers to success and continue to drive up their Adoption Score.
- Educate customers on the most relevant features and functionality related to their specific requirements.
- Understand your customer’s industry trends, business challenges with email security, and current and potential use cases for Abnormal.
- Establish a strategic, trusted advisor relationship at the highest relevant levels by guiding the customer on best practice usage of the platform to manage risk and meet/exceed their objectives.
- Develop and nurture Abnormal Security champions within your customer’s organization who advocate for the platform based on their positive experience.
- Engage customers’ senior decision makers to understand their evolving strategy for email security and to shape Success Planning informed by these goals.
- Work with the internal Account team and external customer stakeholders to formulate/maintain a Success Plan outlining how Abnormal Security addresses their immediate and future needs (with success metrics).
- Proactively monitor customer health to reach out to customers before risks or issues escalate and identify remediation options.
- Partner with Abnormal Security Account Team (Account Executives, Sales Engineers, Support Engineers, etc.) to ensure that customers renew and expand usage.
- Monitor customer user trends to recommend to internal teams risk mitigation actions (Product, Support, Services, etc.).
- Coordinate internal actions and schedule customer calls as necessary to address case issues and concerns and ensure all commitments are met.
Requirements
- 2+ years experience in a CSM capacity, with 5+ yrs. experience in an enterprise SaaS product support environment.
- Strong experience with building and developing long-lasting executive-level relationships (including with CISO’s and CIO’s) at F500 companies.
- Action-oriented, with the ability to quickly assess and integrate inputs across functions (Support, Product, ENG) and turn into a scalable solution and clear customer narrative.
- Soft skills oriented towards developing and retaining a customer’s trust and de-escalating their issues.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to understand and review the financial return or ROI on the customer’s investment.
- Strong written, spoken, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization - both internally and externally.
- Proven ability to introduce and review new product features, best practices, and follow up with customers to advance desired platform adoption/usage.
- Strong technical troubleshooting skills (i.e., previous support or SE experience), and an ability to collaborate, coordinate and escalate issues within a team of product support professionals.
- Previous experience with Internet and networking technologies and products, including email security products.
- Well versed with using case management systems and CRM’s (e.g., SFDC / JIRA).
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering/ Computer Science, Electronics and Communications Engineering or non-graduates with good communication skills, strong technical knowledge or similar work experience required.
Benefits
- Base salary range: $119,000—$140,000 USD
- Certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits.
