Manager, Customer Success, SMB/Scaled

Posted:
1/10/2025, 5:38:02 AM

Location(s):
New York, New York, United States ⋅ New York, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Customer Success & Support ⋅ Sales & Account Management

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Who we are:

For over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it.

We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.

We encourage you to apply if your qualifications and experience are a good fit for any of our openings.

Your Role:
The Manager, Customer Success, works closely with Global Relay’s existing customer base and encompasses ongoing team management, account management, account reconciliation, upselling, and customer success. The Manager, Customer Success, will manage, motivate, lead, and train a team of Customer Success Managers in the Scaled or Small/Mid-sized (SMB) space. He/she is responsible for ensuring the Customer Success Team reaches goals set by management and work closely with Global Relay teams to provide a point of escalation for customer inquiries.

The Manager, Customer Success, will strengthen Global Relay's relationships with customers at scale and create scaled approaches to customer engagement to drive retention and value.  The Manager is responsible to manage the Scaled/SMB Customer Success team, drive and own systems and processes that deliver value for customers while increasing revenue and growth for Global Relay.  The Manager, Customer Success will also create an email/content strategy and customer journey/touchpoints to drive adoption, retention, and expansion.

The ideal candidate has prior experience leading customer success teams, building customer communities, working with customers at scale, and has the ability to work cross-functionally on multiple customer, process and system projects simultaneously.

Your responsibilities:

  • Accountability for the Scaled/SMB customer success team and direct reports
  • Build Scaled/SMB processes and playbooks
  • Drive customer education and engagement at scale with content, campaigns, and strategies to drive adoption, retention, and expansion
  • Improve internal and external processes; streamline processes and improve efficiencies to drive sales, upsells, and customer engagement
  • Build content and own customer engagement for Scaled/SMB customers
  • Help build FAQs, community, and create self-service options for customers
  • Actively engage with customers throughout the relationship lifecycle
  • Act as a point of escalation for customers and for internal stakeholders
  • Stay current with Global Relay's product roadmap to identify new upsell opportunities for customers
  • Contributing to the development and enhancement of Global Relay products and services
  • Acting as a liaison between customer and Product teams
  • Assisting the customer and internal teams with complex problem solving; advise on complex cases; attend client calls; troubleshoot and report
  • Focusing on escalations/customer complaints/incidents, work flow efficiencies and process development
  • Developing relationships with internal stakeholders to promote improvements to existing services and prioritize new feature enhancements based on customers’ needs
  • Representing the customer (in alignment with Sales, Provisioning, Training, Enterprise Services/Project Management, and other customer-facing teams) in internal technical reviews and presentations

 


About You:

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in SaaS Customer Success and/or customer facing roles
  • At least 2 years experience managing teams
  • Experience building scaled approach to customer success a plus
  • Expertise in contract negotiations and renewal processes
  • Prior experience in direct sales or solid understanding of the sales cycle/process
  • Goal oriented self-starter who is highly organized with great attention to detail and demonstrates creativity, resourcefulness and leadership.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally on multiple customer, process and system projects simultaneously
  • Professional business manner with the ability to establish relationships with executive stakeholders
  • Outstanding communication and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail.
  • Highly motivated, energetic, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong work ethic; ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience using Salesforce, content management, mass email, community building highly desirable.

 

 

Compensation:

Global Relay advertises the pay range for this role in compliance with applicable pay transparency laws. Individual pay rates are determined by evaluating factors such as expertise, skills, education, and professional background.

The range below reflects the expected annual base salary, which is only one element of our comprehensive total rewards package designed to reflect our company pay philosophy, culture and values. We aim to foster an inspiring work environment and support employees' work-life rhythms. We provide a comprehensive health benefits program, including extended health coverage, short-term and long-term disability insurance, and a health spending account. Employees receive annual allotted vacation days, which increase based on tenure. Other benefits include paid sick days, maternity/parental leave enhanced program, commuter benefits, corporate bonuses, and a 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution matching.

For employees based at our New York office, we provide additional perks and amenities to enhance your work experience including a subsidized meal program, courtesy of our in-house culinary team!

New York - Base Salary Range:
$100,000$150,000 USD

What you can expect:

At Global Relay, there’s no ceiling to what you can achieve. It’s the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You’ll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You’ll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you’ll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills.

Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual.

We understand flexible work arrangements are important, and we encourage that in our work culture. Whether it’s flexibility around work hours, workstyle, or lifestyle, we want to ensure our employees have a healthy work/life balance. We support and value a hybrid work model that blends collaboration with the team in the office and focus time from the comfort of your home.

To learn more about our business, culture, and community involvement, visit www.globalrelay.com.