Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)? Relationship management.

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 92

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. At Sales Hacker, we’re serious about diversity, and for that reason, we’ve compiled a list of 530+ female sales experts to consider for your next event. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

VP of Engineering 121

VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

Sales Hacker

MARCH 17, 2021

Getting past the first stage of revenue growth and building an initial customer base is the easy part, but what happens when you hit a revenue plateau and can’t seem to take that next step? Combatting missed revenue growth for second-stage startups. 5 revenue growth mistakes second-stage startups make.

Scale 95

Scale Revenue Startup Sales Recruiting 95

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

One of the oldest truisms in sales is that recruiting new clients costs more than retaining them ( five to 25 times more costly, depending on the industry). More than ever, customer success teams must be in complete lockstep with their sales teams—both should treat any renewal as a joint effort and success.

Sales Recruiting 112

Sales Recruiting Technical Review B2B Benchmarks 112

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Welcome to Sales Hacker’s first-ever Influential Women in Sales list! In this exclusive list, we wanted to honor not just female leaders that promote their own sales platform (no shame in that!) They say “You can’t be what you can’t see,” and the sales floor is no exception.

Sales Recruiting 111

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring 111

User Pilot

MAY 20, 2024

TL;DR Customer retention is your ability to keep users using the product. Without retention, a SaaS business doesn’t have a predictable revenue stream necessary for growth. Retention makes businesses more profitable by reducing the CAC and making account expansion easier. Why is it important to retain customers?

Retention 82

Retention Strategy Sales Recruiting Scale 82

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Role: Senior Director of Customer Success Location: Washington DC-Baltimore Area, US (Hybrid) Organization: TitanHouse As a Senior Director of Customer Success, you will establish and adhere to best practices in SaaS Customer Success. Recruit, hire, mentor and coach Customer Success team members.

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Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 19

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. Starting Your International Sales Team. The key to starting an international sales team is having the right people in your landing team. A mercenary is driven by the sale.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 101

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Denver, CO, US Organization: SambaSafety As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will oversee four Customer Success (CS) teams that support different customer verticals and one CS Operations Analyst. Upsell and Cross Sell opportunities.

Sales Recruiting 19

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Technical Review Scale 19

SmartKarrot

MARCH 31, 2022

Role: Customer Success Director Location: Denver, CO, US Organization: E Source As a Customer Success Director, you will be the primary point of contact for the customers, acting as a concierge for all of E Sources offerings. Management of renewals for subscription memberships.

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Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring Systems Review 19

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

In an age where earning customer loyalty and trust is harder than ever, the road to lifetime value is paved with customer feedback. If you take the time to listen, understand and act on what your customers are thinking and feeling, you’ll create an army of advocates and drive topline revenue growth for good measure.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 165

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Companies were growing their sales organizations and bringing in more revenue. Companies everywhere have frozen their hiring and laid off workers — with sales reps often among the first to go. I’ll be honest: as the leader of a sales-focused recruiting company, this has been tough for me and my team.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 96

Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

We hear a lot about equipping salespeople with customer insights to help them move from simple questioning to exploring challenges and discussing solutions with customers. Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales.

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Sales Recruiting Payment Services Payment Methods Sales 109

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

We’ve heard from some of our community members that they feel like Revenue Operations has been severely misunderstood. Because we’re Sales Hacker (and it’s literally our job), we decided to take matters into our own hands: we talked to the experts. Watch this video if you: Never want to misunderstand Revenue Operations again.

Sales Recruiting 93

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Scale 93

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Role: Customer Success Director Location: Seattle, WA, US (Hybrid) Organization: DexCare As a Customer Success Director, you will drive customer loyalty, ensure the customers are satisfied and realizing measurable value from the products, support, and services.

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Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring Technical Review 19

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As for Ryan, prior to G2 he was Senior Director of Global Marketing at Hubspot where among many other achievements, he scaled HubSpot’s marketing-generated sales revenue by 330% year-over-year. What type of CMO would Ryan bucket himself as; demand gen or brand? How does Ryan think about the relationship between the two?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 127

OpenView Labs

APRIL 14, 2021

For every qualified candidate, there are myriad recruiters trying to snatch them up. For example, if you’re looking to land a new chief revenue officer, you may be thinking, “I want someone who’s done it before.” Founders often assume that “time in the seat” is the most important indicator for future success.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review Technical Advisors 55

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Role: VP Customer Success Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Unifyed As a VP of Customer Success, you’ll drive Customer Success Outcomes. Expand revenue in accounts through cross-sell and up-sell. Maintain in-depth knowledge of our brand, product, systems, and policies.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourced Development 19

SmartKarrot

JUNE 28, 2023

In fact, a survey by Bain & Company shows that a 5% rise in customer retention results in over 25% surge in profits. The key account manager is then supposed to act as the first contact point between these clients and the business, dedicate resources, and hold meetings with them. This now becomes a challenge.

Sales Recruiting 10

Sales Recruiting Management Scale Underperforming Technical Team 10

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

One of the first what How to Hire a Great VP of Sales at the New York Enterprise Tech Meet-Up (thank you to John Lehr and Work-Bench for setting this up). The Number One Thing You Can Do to Accelerate Your Business Post-Initial Traction is Hiring a Great VP of Sales. Make the revenue recur, I’m interested. Who is over 20?

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 256

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

According to Harvard Business Review , companies that were instrumental in creating their categories accounted for 53 percent of incremental revenue growth and 74 percent of incremental market capitalization growth. What’s a sample job description that I can use to recruit talent? Short-Term Planning Is Extremely Hard.

Scale 107

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 107

SmartKarrot

APRIL 22, 2022

Role: Client Success Director – Public Sector Location: Owings Mills, MD, US Organization: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield As a Client Success Director, you will manage and develop a set of assigned accounts to increase productivity and sales of company products. Make sure all deadlines are being met.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 19

SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2022

Role: Global Customer Success Director Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site) Organization: Peeple Inc. As a Global Customer Success Director, you will manage a fast-growing, global team of Customer Success Managers. Develop industry-specific metrics that define the customer success journey.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Engineering 19

SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success. As a Director of Customer Success, you will be responsible for a team of passionate Customer Success professionals to achieve aggressive usage, adoption, and value realization targets while continually evolving Esper’s customer success methodology and deliverables.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Customer Lifetime Value Onboarding 19

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. So in that shift from product-market fit to product-market-SALES fit, how much should you optimize your go-to-market for product… and even the other way around?

Product Marketing 76

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 76

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Palo Alto, CA, US (Hybrid) Organization: Spin Technology As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will lead the CSM team in driving user adoption, technical success, and long-term partnership with the customers.

Technical Advisors 19

Technical Advisors Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 19

Kellblog

JULY 30, 2023

For example: Marketing exists is to make sales easier. HR exists to help managers manage. Customer success exists to get renewals and spot expansion opportunities. This one depends on your sales/success model.) Recruiting support. It’s HR supporting managers to do their jobs better.

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Software Review Technical Review Sales Recruiting Artificial Intelligence 66

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

But creating a genuine community can be orders of magnitude more valuable than other growth channels: people getting value from each other, and coming back every day because they want to, rather than being retargeted, creates a priceless brand association. We also made a firm decision to ban our sales team from the community.

Sales Recruiting 80

Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS Branding 80

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. And today we sell to larger customers, primarily CFOs [inaudible 00:16:33] and that requires us to actually build a solution fund.

Scale 124

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 124

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. To the victor go the spoils and these companies are rewarded with abundant capital, enviable brand recognition, and an easier time attracting candidates.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

A study by HBR found that the 13 companies in the Fortune 100 that were instrumental in creating their categories accounted for 53% of incremental revenue growth and 74% of incremental market cap growth. Over the past four years, the number of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the industry has increased 400%.

Scale 112

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Mary Rogul , a VP Sales Consultant, who’s currently an Enterprise Sales Advisor at Crayon. Fresh out of college, Mary started out in accounting, but it didn’t take long before she began a 20-year sales career that led her through Monster.com, HubSpot, and several others.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales 52

SmartKarrot

JUNE 10, 2021

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Inflection As a Director of Customer Success, you will lead, manage and supervise the Customer Success team, including both Customer Success Managers and Customer Success Associates.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Technical Support 10

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Maria : It’s like saying, “Hey, you want a sales rep to carry 10 times the quota they do today. Any thoughts?

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 199

ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

But if you’re like most companies, when it comes to attracting your customers, the only thing your marketing’s dropping is the ball. Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? If you teach a customer how to use your product to fix a problem, you’re in the game.

Retention 64

Retention Strategy Scale Sales Recruiting 64

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

But creating a genuine community can be orders of magnitude more valuable than other growth channels: people getting value from each other, and coming back every day because they want to, rather than being retargeted, creates a priceless brand association. We also made a firm decision to ban our sales team from the community.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS Branding 52

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Between hiring, training, and helping new employees excel, iterating on customer feedback, building brand awareness, et al., But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Coach regularly.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 93