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From Startup to $500M CARR: How Braze Scaled a Growth and CS Team

SaaStr

Hiring for Customer Success When Braze was looking for their first customer success hires, you couldn’t find a CSM with seven years of experience in software because those people didn’t exist yet. Think about what you want a CSM to be: technical, customer-facing, or have industry experience.

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Understanding the Joint Success Plan: A Tool for Outcome-Based Customer Success Management

ChurnZero

The range of responsibilities of Customer Success Managers (CSM) in the industry is dizzying. From technical support to renewals and upselling, this role might be one of the most confusing and misunderstood jobs in all of tech. . Enable field managers to control hiring processes while maintaining compliance.

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Salesforce vs HubSpot: CRM Titans Compared for 2025

How To Buy Saas

Introduction: Why Choosing the Right CRM Matters Choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform can make or break your businesss growth trajectory. A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Can model complex sales orgs and processes.

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20 quick insights on Customer Success and SaaS metrics with Dave Kellogg

ChurnZero

tech ops, AWS, technical support). In some ways, I just delegate this to accounting because it’s a generally accepted accounting principle (GAAP) and, while I’m interested in how they do it, ultimately, you’re just taking it right off the profit and loss (P&L). BUT NO ONE DOES THAT.

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Nov 14 – Customer Success Jobs 

SmartKarrot

As a Director of Customer Success, you will create efficient processes for managing all pre- post-sales technical support; including phone & e-mail support, lab-based troubleshooting, knowledge database, and interface with CRM. Be the main point of contact for the accountants and a small number SME’s.

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Feb 21 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

To provide high levels of customer satisfaction, recruit and train the best customer success managers. Expand the support organisation to offer worldwide, cross-product line, and multi-channel product assistance. Establish, control, and share KPIs for customer success. commercial expertise in upselling and/or renewals.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. Consider the timeline of adding a technical support team member.

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