SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them. Announcer: In today’s SaaStr Insider, SaaStr CEO and founder, Jason Lemkin, shared the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales team.

Sales Hiring 180

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 180

ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

Skillset 1: Sales acumen In 2024, driving revenue is a primary responsibility of CS. This means that sales acumen is no longer just a bonus for CS professionals—it’s a new baseline for many companies. In 2024, tracking these metrics and demonstrating their impact are essential skills for CS professionals.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 52

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Segmentation can help you launch personalized onboarding experiences. You can also use segmentation to help you identify and target at-risk users accordingly to reduce the churn rate. Segmenting customers can help your organization better tailor its products and run effective in-app onboarding to meet the needs of each group.

Strategy 88

Strategy Sales Recruiting Onboarding Churn 88

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Overall, customer value management can make your product more competitive. Sales reps can use the knowledge to shift sales negotiations from price to value. That’s when the team develops the product and helps users to use it effectively, for example, through onboarding and in-app support. How is customer value calculated?

Management 89

Management Scale Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 89

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 9, 2022

While your company can recruit additional Customer Success Managers and improve the customer experience, you’ll also need a Customer Success dashboard that provides revenue insights into every aspect of the customer journey. Customer success metrics you should track. Metrics for success that are more advanced.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Outsourced Development Customer Lifetime Value 52

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Sales recruiting is broken. The sad truth is that VP of Sales are turning over within 19 months —and that timeline is shrinking. . Not only that, the market has heated way back up and the VP of Sales is one of the most sought after roles. This isn’t linear and there are many shades of grey when it comes to sales. .

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

ChurnZero

APRIL 26, 2019

Your new Customer Success Manager only gets to experience their first day on the job once. The difference between an effective and ineffective employee onboarding experience determines the long-term success of a new Customer Success Manager (CSM). So how do you properly onboard a new CSM and minimize their time-to-value?

Onboarding 58

Onboarding Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 58

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Indeed, to get the most out of customer data, SaaS businesses often rely on a third-party analytics dashboard for everything from basic SaaS metrics to financial forecasting and customer segmentation. One of the most important metrics is customer lifetime value ( LTV ). What is LTV?

Payment Services 94

Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments Payment Features 94

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.

Sales Recruiting 176

Sales Recruiting Technical Review Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 176

User Pilot

MAY 21, 2023

Your options include: Feature requests Tracking user in-app behavior to identify friction points in the user journey Feedback received by the sales team and customer support team Monitoring what your competitors do Feedback widget for feature requests. This can help you identify issues with the feature discovery or your onboarding.

Underperforming Technical Team 76

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Social Media Onboarding 76

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Recruit, hire, mentor and coach Customer Success team members. Assist with client marketing correspondence (newsletters, campaigns, sales print materials, welcome packets, surveys, etc.). Work with Account Director on potential target client list and sales strategies. Grow usage of BrightEdge within each account.

Sales Recruiting 19

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 19

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Hiring managers should prepare by putting together pitch materials (usually a 2-3 page deck) to give candidates a deeper look at your company and culture – beyond what’s on your website. Customer Success: Nail customer onboarding and the customers first 30 days.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Role: VP Customer Success Location: Irvine, CA, US (Hybrid) Organization: IntelligenceBank As a VP of Customer Success, you will achieve business targets for upsell, product usage and engagement, retention ARR and churn prevention for the North American region. set by your manager. Collecting referrals from businesses when possible.

Sales Recruiting 19

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Payment Services Payment Facilitation 19

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 4, 2023

Engage Sales, Solutions, and Product/Engineering to validate new business scope as it pertains to customer contract documents, technical specifications, and data analytics to ensure correct technologies are selected to support customer requirements. Responsible for the onboarding process for new accounts to ensure successful implementations.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Outsourced Development 19

ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? Your results are ideally backed by hard ROI metrics to validate success, but sometimes the strongest outcome is a “soft” ROI metric, such as process improvements and productivity increases. Applaud Accomplishments With Awards.

Retention 64

Retention Strategy Scale Sales Recruiting 64

SmartKarrot

MAY 6, 2022

Represent the voice of the customer to provide input into the core product, marketing, and sales process. Meet pre-defined metrics around churn reduction and revenue growth through engagement and driving deep product adoption. Develop both the long-term vision and strategy for the team, and drive progress toward key metrics.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 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. Promote a culture and metrics centered on customer satisfaction and responsiveness.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 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. Conduct customer health checks to identify risk and mitigate churn risk.

VP of Engineering 19

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 19

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Building a Customer Success organization that supports customers from onboarding through renewal. Creating best-in-class processes for onboarding, training, support, engagement, and business reviews. Partnering with the Sales and Product teams to define product goals and Tread’s roadmap.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Merchant Services Sales Recruiting Technical Review 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. Apply here: [link].

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.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Consulting Benchmarks 19

SmartKarrot

JULY 4, 2022

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, New York, NY, US Organization: Urbint As a Director of Customer Success, you will own the ultimate success of Urbint’s customer base; this includes seamless customer onboarding, project success, retention, and renewal. Own metrics across NRR, churn, adoption and customer satisfaction.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Systems Review 19

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, New York, NY, US Organization: Urbint As a Director of Customer Success, you will own the ultimate success of Urbint’s customer base; this includes seamless customer onboarding, project success, retention, and renewal. Identify, recruit, and onboard high potential partners.

Sales Recruiting 10

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Technical Review SMB 10

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Role: Vice President of Customer Success Location: Remote, New York, United States Organization: Deep Labs As a Vice President of Customer Success, you will drive Customer Success at the clients through increased renewal rates, expansion of use case, and reduced churn. Own the entire customer lifecycle after onboarding, including renewals.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 19

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 21, 2022

Help set and track towards company-wide expansion, retention, and churn metrics. Work cross-functionally with sales to ensure successful deployments across Twingate’s largest deployments. Create and execute a talent strategy that recruits, onboards, and develops diverse talent.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Leadership 19

SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

Role: Customer Success Director Location: Remote, Boston, MA, US Organization: meQuilibrium As a Customer Success Director, you will advance meQuilibrium’s strategic relevance by driving the integration and adoption in other areas of Human Capital Management and business units within the customer organization. testimonials, case studies).

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourced Development 19

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The core structure of every Customer Success Program is: Onboarding, Engagement and Adoption, Renewals, Advocacy and Churn. Which area is causing the most churn? Are your Marketing messages and Sales team aligned with the experience you are delivering to customers? This relates back to change management.).

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 19

SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2022

Work with the VP of Customer Success to drive customer success annual planning, including determining account segmentation, organizational design, account coverage, and capacity model. Effectively partner across sales, product, and marketing teams. Role: Customer Success Manager. Apply here: [link]. Organization: Vanta.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Customer Lifetime Value Onboarding 19

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Onboarding, Training, Customer Support, User Advocacy for Global Clients. Define operational metrics for the team. Expose a subset of metrics to the executive team, company, and board. Recruit experienced team members for each functional role. usage, satisfaction, etc.).

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Technical Review Sales Recruiting Scale 19

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

Part-Time VPE 202

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 202

SmartKarrot

MARCH 9, 2023

Create and use metrics to gauge and monitor consumer loyalty and satisfaction. assemble, motivate, and manage a top-notch customer success team. Establish a weekly management system to monitor advancement against important benchmarks and KPIs. lead a high-performing team by recruiting, coaching, and inspiring them.

VP of Engineering 19

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Recruiting Leadership 19

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Role: Customer Success Director Location: Remote, Minneapolis, MN, US Organization: Numerator As a Customer Success Director, you will manage a client relationship after onboarding is complete to drive ongoing realized value against measurable long-term strategic goals to ensure long-term success.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 19

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Develop and implement a framework to proactively identify risks and minimize customer churn. Collaborate with Sales on large-scale enterprise renewals in your portfolio. You will be responsible for scaling up, onboarding, and mentoring Customer Success Managers and Representatives within your team. Apply here: [link].

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale User Experience 19

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop. I was a local sales manager or regional manager.

Sales Recruiting 262

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 262

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

It’s all about sending direct mail during the holiday and it also tends to be our highest sales quarter and therefor it’s also our highest renewal quarter. So, before Q4 even beings, we start to coordinate with sales leadership to get their forecasts so that we can set hiring plans for the quarter.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review 40

SmartKarrot

MARCH 3, 2021

Oversee all aspects of people management within the designated customer success team including recruitment, selection, training, performance management, coaching, and motivation. Develop an ongoing customer lifecycle management profile, tracking methodology and enhancement plan to identify, grow and retain the best customers.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review 10

SmartKarrot

APRIL 21, 2021

Ensure having scorecard metrics that tell an accurate and complete story of what is going on with customer operations (and all SaaS recurring revenue). Rigorously sets and measures operational metrics and outcomes, and continually improve processes through industry-leading methods. Recruit, develop and lead a high-performing team.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Merchant Services Scale 10