Senior Manager, Customer Success - SMB

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As the Senior Manager, EMEA Customer Success - SMB, you will have overall responsibility for the largest book of business across the EMEA customer segments. We are looking for a strategic thought leader - experienced in building, executing and leading a team focused on delivering a high touch, proactive engagement model for our highest value customers. This is likely to be one of the fastest growing segments across EMEA!
You will serve as an advocate and partner to some of Klaviyo's most strategic customers, combining marketing strategic guidance, technical aptitude and experienced business acumen to support customers business results and help them to achieve maximum value with Klaviyo. You will be responsible for interviewing, hiring, evaluating, training, coaching, and leading a team of experienced Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment. As part of our customer success-focused, results-driven organization, you will also be responsible for driving sustainable, long-term customer value and measured on your team's Net Revenue Retention and customer satisfaction
In this leadership role, you will partner with key stakeholders across the business including Sales, Professional Services, Support, Product, Solution Architects, Onboarding Specialists, and Operations to establish the operations, processes, engagement models and goals to drive customer outcomes and growth while mitigating any risk. You have a solid understanding of developing, implementing and measuring customer success principles, excellent communication skills, and a proven track record of managing across complex customer relationships in an enterprise environment.
How you will make a difference:

• Build, hire and manage a team of direct reports of Customer Success Managers.
• Own Net Revenue Retention (NRR), Net Upgrade (NU) goals, and Gross Churn rates for the Strategic Account team.
• Develop and execute engagement models and customer success plans that meet the needs of this customer segment to drive product adoption, usage, overall customer satisfaction and accelerated growth.
• Support the Customer Growth teams with white space strategy and prioritization sessions with the team.
• Analyze data and usage patterns to identify trends and to build strategy to help customers realize their goals while driving business outcomes for Klaviyo.
• Foster relationships with executive decision makers on the customer side and internally within Klaviyo to act as an internal advocate for customers to drive customer success and product enhancements.
• Manage regular business reviews with key stakeholders to assess customer health, identify areas for improvement, and provide strategic recommendations
• Work closely with key cross-functional leaders, including Onboarding, Solution Architects, Sales, Renewal Management, Partner Success, and Professional Services, to define, develop and execute effective customer adoption strategies.
• Partner with the Customer Growth team to ensure clear Rules of Engagement and hand off processes to best identify and capitalize on account expansion opportunities
• Develop onsite cadence with customers for strategic workshops, QBRs and customer networking
• Manage Executive Sponsor Programs and Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) in partnership with Customer Growth and reps across all brands to provide ongoing visibility to Klaviyo leadership around customer sentiment, successes, challenges, risks and product optimizations in order to help inform prioritization and action moving forward

Who you are:

• 5+ years in a Customer Success or Account Management Leadership function
• Strong leadership experience managing managers and coaching individual contributors with effective performance management
• Demonstrated success in managing complex customer relationships, achieving customer satisfaction, and driving customer retention and expansion
• Strong business acumen - experience diving into earnings reports, project planning during change in leadership, identifying macro business trends and upskilling your peers in these areas
• Proven experience driving a strategic motion, including value propositions, executive planning, outcome based engagements
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organization.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to navigate through ambiguity and provide effective solutions
• Ability to prioritize and manage across team members and accounts, while maintaining a high level of attention to detail
• Experience working with CRM systems and customer success tools (e.g., Salesforce, Gainsight) is preferred
• Technical aptitude with the ability to triage and diagnose an issue while knowing when to bring in the right stakeholders to dive deeper and drive solutions forward
• A passion for technology and a willingness to continuously learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
• Team player with a collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Experience in SaaS and Martech is advantageous

The pay range for this role is listed below. Sales roles are also eligible for variable compensation. This role is also eligible for competitive benefits and perquisites, subject to company policy and applicable law.
Base Pay Range in Local Currency:
£100,000 - £150,000 GBP
Get to Know Klaviyo
We're Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we're developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators-ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you're ready to do the best work of your career, where you'll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you'll join us.
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