Associate Customer Success Manager

Hi, I'm Shannon, the Director of Customer Success at Customer.io. We're looking for Associate Customer Success Managers to join our growing team.

As an Associate Customer Success Manager at Customer.io, you’ll specialize in our SMB and Mid-Market segment to manage the successful onboarding of accounts, and ongoing support for customers on our pooled Customer Success model.

You’ll lead with empathy and problem solving to guide assigned customers through key elements of onboarding, enabling them to achieve their desired business outcomes. Tasked with getting general or strategic questions answered for customers, you’ll collaborate with customer success enablement, technical support, sales, product, and engineering (when appropriate) to unlock value from the Customer.io platform in the first 90 days. You’ll help manage customers’ long term success beyond onboarding with pooled Customer Success entailing a shared inbox and ad-hoc Zoom calls where appropriate.

We don’t need you to be an expert at marketing - but rather, an expert at getting questions answered and influencing the customer to make progress and move through blockers. You won't necessarily be a data or technical expert, but will be keen to get a good understanding of our app so that you can take a use case and leverage our features to make your customer successful.

This is an essential role within our greater Customer Experience team that presents exciting opportunities to iterate on process and develop a program that directly impacts long term objectives to scale the business with Customer Success. In this position you’ll learn the ins and outs of the lifecycle functions of our customers and will be eligible for growth and development opportunities into other CSM roles.

• Kick off calls with key stakeholders to outline the general onboarding plan and timetable
• Planning and organization of the data customers will send to their Customer.io account, and how they’ll use it to power effective campaigns and newsletters
• Conversations with customers to unearth reasons why messaging matters to them and help them plan, implement, and follow through with their messaging goals
• Ensuring confidence in the Go-Live process by advising on testing strategies and steering clear of possible pitfalls as customers begin sending messages to their audiences
• Being your customer’s first point of contact to provide them with dedicated support and initial troubleshooting. We don’t expect you to know all of the answers, but you will gather information and receive help from TS, Product, and Engineering to solve problems
• Advising on best practices and practical knowledge as customers adopt new features and use cases throughout their life cycle
• Identify gaps in process and resources to optimize the customer experience in this segment and collaborate with teammates to implement solutions

• You’re curious and enjoy learning about different businesses and industries
• You’ve got a thirst for knowledge, and are keen to understand our app
• We often find ourselves in situations like this: A customer completed their integration with Customer.io. They want to create a complex, time-sensitive campaign but their engineers are unavailable to help the marketer interpret their data for setting up this campaign. How do you help them?
• Creative problem solver who can understand the customer problem and find the best solution regardless of what the customer is asking for
• You’re calm under stress and not easily rattled
• You enjoy solving problems independently but aren’t afraid to ask for help or collaboration when you need to
• You’re excited at the prospect of joining a quickly growing and evolving team and having an impact on the development of our Customer Success program

• You’re excited about collaborating with SMB customers and tailoring the Customers Success experience to fit their needs
• You’ve worked in a company doing customer success or another customer-facing role (bonus point if you have a backgroun in SaaS!)
• You get fulfillment from jumping into new scenarios and using your expertise to find solutions
• You have experience communicating with software developers in a technical capacity
• You’re opinionated about customer experience for a business and in general. In order to give strategic advice to customers, you should have well-formed opinions!
• Bonus points: You’ve been responsible for designing lifecycle messages

Our mission at Customer.io is to power automated communication that people like to receive. Today over 4,700 internet businesses use Customer.io to manage, send, and track performance of emails, SMS, push notifications, and in-app messages. Unlike typical marketing platforms, Customer.io helps businesses increase relevance by using behavioral data: what people do or don’t do when logged in to a web or mobile app.

We are offering a starting salary of $65,000 USD depending on experience and subject to market rate adjustment.

Benefits at Customer.io include:

• Unlimited PTO - we encourage 20 vacation days (in addition to holidays and sick days) so that you can unwind, unplug, and recharge
• 100% medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance for you and your dependents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave - for birth, adoption, or foster care
• 401k retirement matching - up to 5% dollar for dollar match to retirement contributions
• Health and wellness allowance - Up to $200 USD per month that can be used for your healthy living needs, including gym membership, acupuncture, massage, or bike repairs
• Home office stipend - Up to $2,000 USD to help you get your home office set up so you can do your best work
• Internet + cell phone reimbursement - Up to $200 USD per month for your internet and cell phone plans
• Co-working space reimbursement - Up to $300 USD per month for those times you'd prefer to work in a co-working environment
• Learning + development - Up to $2,000 USD reimbursement per year to use on conferences, books, classes, or workshops - anything that will help you develop your skills
• 1 month paid sabbatical after four years at Customer.io - to treat yourself to a vacation, or spend however you choose
• 1 annual company retreat per year and opportunities to meet in smaller groups throughout the year
• Flexible schedule, work anywhere you want! - as long as you have a reliable internet connection and some overlapping work time with your manager, you can work where and when you want

All final candidates will be asked to complete a background check and employment verifications as part of our pre-employment process.

Customer.io recognizes the stifling impact of systemic injustice on diverse communities. We commit to using our influence to increase inclusion and equity within the tech industry. We strive to build an inclusive team culture, implement bias-free hiring practices, and develop community partnerships to expand our global impact.

Check out our careers page for more information about why you should come work with us! We are passionate about our core values of Empathy, Transparency, Responsibility, and Awkwardness and are looking for new coworkers to share and build that passion!

Apply at the link below by [insert date here if we have a confirm close] and tell us why you're interested in the position! *In your cover letter, be sure to tell us * insert application question here . We plan to respond to all applicants with a status update about your application.

Here's what you can expect from our hiring process:

1. 30-minute video call with Maria, our Recruiter

2. 45-minute video call with Shannon, Director of Customer Success

3. Approximately one week to learn a little more about our product and prepare for a mock customer call

4. 45-minute mock customer call + feedback with potential team members