SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I hear again and again from SaaS founders growing to $5m, $10m ARR or even more that they don’t need a certain VP — with the exception of a VP of Sales. That they can get away without no one in the role, or a just a junior person in marketing, in product, in success, in biz dev, etc. I Need a VP of Sales.

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Sales Hiring CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 351

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2020

In SaaS, it is recruiting your VPs and management team : SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales. Q: What’s the number one challenge for scale-up founders? You’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big.

Part-Time VPE 231

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Fractional VPE Sales Recruiting 231

Valuize Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

Mastering Digital Customer Success: Insights From Valuize Spark Toronto What does your Digital CS model look like today and what was the journey like to get here? In the rapidly evolving B2B recurring revenue economy, the focus on Digital Customer Success is more pertinent than ever.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Strategy 52

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 90

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

No lead commit, or revenue commit. A head of sales that doesn’t recruit at least one strong rep in the first 90 days. A head of customer success that doesn’t own churn, or net revenue retention in the first 90 days. I can go on. Something sounded off. His opportunity commit.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SMB Engineering 312

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

We’ve written a lot on SaaStr on how to increase the odds your first management team is a success. How to hire a great VP of Sales (tons on that here ). What a great VP of sales really does. How to manage customer success. About recruiting and helping you scale. All good stuff.

Sales Hiring 352

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Engineering 352

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges. For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2019

The template is broken into six sections: People, Bookings & Revenue, Cash, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success. This section covers employee satisfaction, headcount, and recruiting metrics. Bookings and Revenue illuminates the company’s performance in closing new business (bookings) and recurring revenue.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer. In large companies, the CSM also oversees other customer success roles. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 97

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 9, 2022

A Customer Success dashboard keeps track of your company’s health in connection to your product and its users. Customers are the lifeblood of any company, therefore having a clear picture of its revenue activities is critical for expansion. 360 Customer Success Dashboard.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 10, 2022

Customer Success Manager job description: As a CSM (Customer Success Manager), your role is to maintain a good relationship and the satisfaction of your existing customers while developing the customer portfolio. Additional Resource – What is a Customer Success Manager.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales compensation planning can be a tricky beast to tame — but know that you’re not alone. I asked 12 incredible sales leaders across the SaaS industry to share their biggest challenges with comp planning and how to overcome them. Related: New to sales compensation planning? Top 10 sales compensation challenges.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 18, 2020

With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been nothing short of challenging in many ways. . Q&A Recap: Speakers: Megan Macaluso , VP Customer Success & Operations, ESG. Jay Nathan , Chief Customer Officer, Higher Logic.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Your customer success teams need to grow with your user base to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction. Your marketing and sales budgets, and the personnel assigned to those teams, will also rise. A hiring plan allocates expected future expenses based on your revenue forecasts. Table of Contents.

Sales Hiring 97

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Finance Forecasting 97

ChurnZero

MARCH 11, 2020

Churn Reasons: You’re Not Digging Deep Enough. This is a guest post by Jay Nathan , Founder & Managing Partner at Customer Imperative. Disappointed, but oddly satisfied, I hung up the phone from a call with a recently-churned customer. Eventually, these issues become deal-breakers which can lead to churn.

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ChurnZero

MAY 10, 2019

Top 10 Customer Success Takeaways from TSW 2019. This event brought together thousands of technology leaders from Customer Success, Services, Sales, Product and Marketing. What was particularly great to see was the amount of Customer Success content that was structured into the programming.

Technology 74

Technology Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 74

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.

Sales Recruiting 19

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 19

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

About Nick… Nick Mehta and Anthony Kennada presented on how to create a new category (customer success). Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. His sales focused, actionable content made an impact on the audience.

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Sales Recruiting Software Review Technical Review PayPal 168

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 4, 2023

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Slync.io As a Director of Customer Success, you will plan, lead, organize and control multiple project initiatives in accordance with the approved scope and schedule. Guide and coach customers with proactive customer success processes.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Outsourced Development 19

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

* What does Jessica believe is the right way for sales reps to engage with new customers during this time? How should sales teams and CS respond to requests for discounts? What specific and deliberate things can startups do not just to prevent churn but also to increase usage and upsell? This podcast is sponsored by Guru.

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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 175

SmartKarrot

MARCH 15, 2023

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Houston, TX, United States (Remote) Organization: Innovapptive Inc As a Director of Customer Success, you’ll ensure great client happiness, adoption improvements, retention, and expansion, you should lead and manage the customer success team of strategic accounts.

VP of Engineering 19

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 19

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Marketing teams that understand what customers value can target them more accurately with marketing campaigns that truly resonate. Sales reps can use the knowledge to shift sales negotiations from price to value. Teams can foster it by analyzing customers’ progress along the user journey and removing unnecessary friction.

Management 96

Management Scale Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 96

SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2023

Role: Senior Manager, Customer Success Location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany (Hybrid) Organization: Rapid7 As a Senior Manager, Customer Success, you’ll manage recurring revenue in a predictable manner and produce high rates of timely renewal. Strike deals and conclude negotiations.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Customer Lifetime Value Forecasting 19

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Role: Head of Customer Success Location: San Francisco, CA, United States Organization: Ikigai As the Head of Customer Success, you’ll manage the onboarding of new clients and ensure a smooth transition from sales. Present consumer voices internally accurately, raising them as necessary.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Outsourced Development 19

SmartKarrot

MAY 6, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Chevin Fleet Solutions As a Director of Customer Success, you will optimize the CS mission, vision, and customer journey map with the VP of Customer Success & Support.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 19

SmartKarrot

MARCH 16, 2023

Role: VP of Customer Success Location: Austin, TX, United States (On-site) Organization: ShipperHQ As a VP of Customer Success, you’ll create and put into action ideas to boost client retention and decrease customer churn.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Churn 19

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 13, 2023

Role: Customer Success Specialist Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland (Hybrid) Organization: Zowie As a Customer Success Specialist, you will manage and support the success of a portfolio of customers across the entire post-sale customer journey from kick-off to advocacy and renewal.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting SMB Forecasting 19

SmartKarrot

MARCH 21, 2023

Role: Director, Customer Success Strategy Location: Seattle, WA, United States (Remote) Organization: CommerceIQ As a Director, Customer Success Strategy, you’ll create and implement customer success strategies that promote effective onboarding, adoption, retention, value creation, and customer satisfaction.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Consulting Benchmarks 19

SmartKarrot

MARCH 9, 2023

Role: VP, Customer Success Location: Alpharetta, GA, United States (Remote) Organization: Varicent As a VP of Customer Success you’ll boost renewal rates and decrease attrition and downselling. By new goods and expansion prospects, increase income in accounts.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Recruiting Leadership 19

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 21, 2022

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Twingate As a Director of Customer Success, you will hire a team of talented customer success managers and leaders. Help set and track towards company-wide expansion, retention, and churn metrics.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Leadership 19

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals.

SaaS Payments 150

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

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. Increase renewal rates and reduce churn. Expand revenue in accounts through cross-sell and up-sell.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourced Development 19

SmartKarrot

JUNE 9, 2022

Ensure Customer Success and Asset Management teams are coordinated with respect to the communication of project and utility timelines with end-user customers; develop processes between teams to ensure seamless communication for the benefit of all the customers. Ensure customer experience is best-in-class.

VP of Engineering 19

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 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

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.

Sales Recruiting 164

Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 164

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. and finally figure out how much that SaaS sales salary should be. In the end, a bonus section is waiting for you! What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? We will write about: 1.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2023

Role: Senior Manager, Customer Success Location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany (Hybrid) Organization: Rapid7 As a Senior Manager, Customer Success, you’ll manage recurring revenue in a predictable manner and produce high rates of timely renewal. Strike deals and conclude negotiations.

Customer Success 15

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Customer Lifetime Value Forecasting 15