SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You need engineering, product in all start-ups — but in SaaS, even in the very early days, you also need sales, client success, true support, demand gen marketing, etc. And Things I Successfully (More or Less) Offloaded By/At $1m ARR: Client/Customer Success. Routine Sales. Recruiting >=20% of Your Time.

Sales Hiring 279

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Scaling 279

ChurnZero

JANUARY 25, 2024

How will customer success jobs, and the skills they require, evolve in 2024? With technology advancing and customer expectations rising, customer success has become an essential force driving business growth and customer loyalty within the SaaS industry.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 52

SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2022

Your best sales reps can close so much more than your average rep. Move the bottom 10% out and give the best leads to your top performer, and watch sales go up 20%. The best VPs of Sales design comp plans so the team never wants to leave. You should be striving for zero voluntary attrition on your sales team.

Sales Recruiting 205

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Customer Success 205

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Level Up Your Customer Success Organization. In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). The fourth challenge is complexity.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Designing a successful post-sale strategy requires choices, says CXology’s Tim Conder. Without making those choices upfront, you’ll find it hard to create a good customer experience and scale it, and you’ll easily fall into the chaotic trap of “doing what it takes”. A: First, it matters how you recruit.

Sales Recruiting 52

Sales Recruiting Scale Customer Success Sales 52

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. You can do this.

Part-Time VPE 258

Part-Time VPE Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 258

ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives. Customer success continues to evolve as a practice within companies that enjoy recurring revenue models.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Management 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

More on that here and a great video discussion below: You’ll probably be ready for your first VP of Sales by $1m in ARR. We’ve talked about this a lot on SaaStr, but hiring a true VP of Sales before you have 2 reps hitting quota (and thus a repeatable, if not yet fully repeating process) is too early. Earlier is better.

Part-Time VPE 363

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scale 363

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

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

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If you don’t think you need a great VP of Sales, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and Engineering — then all that all that means is you’ve never worked with a great one. Here again, we have the same problems as the Customer Success lead hire, but worse. A bad VP of Sales is a total disaster.

Sales Hiring 271

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting 271

Totango

JANUARY 22, 2018

Customer Success Summit brings together the best and brightest minds in Customer Success. Our world-class speaker lineup for 2018 Customer Success Summit will share the impressive business results that customer success best practices should deliver. VP, Global Head Digital Customer Engagement.

Customer Success 76

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 76

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2020

To want a head of sales operations and a director of sales to help carry the load not later … but on Day 1. To not have to manage any customers yourself in customer success, and instead be a strategist. You can’t scale after that without one. In many cases this is a good thing.

Sales Hiring 221

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting SaaS 221

InsightSquared

MARCH 6, 2018

Sales operations has been around for quite some time, but lately the function has been gaining momentum. Instead of behind-the-scenes sales support, sales ops now acts as a strategic partner for sales VPs and leadership. Start building out your sales operations department by hiring someone to own your CRM.

Sales Recruiting 119

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Sales 119

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Getting the team right is one of the hardest parts of scaling sales. But no sales team can afford to grow without intention. While building a sales team, we’ve focused a lot on our sales culture. Here’s how we went about growing a sales team that is both world class and culture-additive. They’re resilient.

Scale 160

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 160

SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

Here are 5 roles you may not have thought of and how they can help drive immediate revenue & sales efficiency impact. Role: Also known as Sales Engineer, but I prefer to call it Product Specalist. This is a dedicated role that helps distribute product knowledge across a fast-scaling sales and customer success team.

Sales Recruiting 64

Sales Recruiting Technical Review Scale Startup 64

Totango

JANUARY 22, 2018

Customer Success Summit brings together the best and brightest minds in Customer Success. Our world-class speaker lineup for 2018 Customer Success Summit will share the impressive business results that customer success best practices should deliver. VP, Global Head Digital Customer Engagement.

Customer Success 48

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 48

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Build an engine for positive team growth across recruiting, training, management, and operations. Be the voice of your team to other departments and leadership – escalate issues that impact the customers or inhibit the employee’s ability to succeed. Apply here: [link]. Apply here: [link]. Apply here: [link].

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Operational efficiency. 19

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. Client experience and satisfaction.

Sales Recruiting 19

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Technical Review Scale 19

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience. When scaling your customer experience, remember AI can’t simulate human empathy.

Scale 156

Scale Scaling AI Search Underperforming Technical Team 156

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.

Sales Hiring 94

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 94

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.

Scale 116

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 116

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

Sales Recruiting 127

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 127

SmartKarrot

MAY 5, 2023

Role: VP of Customer Success Location: Washington, DC, United States (Remote) Organization: Analyst1 As a VP of Customer Success, you’ll create and grow a high-performance customer success team to aid in the expansion and scaling of the company. Strong commitment to ongoing learning.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review 19

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise? Loving our podcast content?

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: United States (Remote) Organization: Apollo.io As a Director of Customer Success you’ll utilize automatic and calculated plays to manage a huge number of accounts. Set a date for newly assigned accounts’ onboarding.

Technical Review 19

Technical Review Customer Success Development Team Review Systems Review 19

SmartKarrot

MAY 20, 2022

Role: VP of Customer Experience Location: Remote, New York, NY, US Organization: Healthie As a VP of Customer Experience, you will own the entire Customer Success and Support experience at Healthie. Lead a team of 12-15 customer-facing specialists, including team Directors.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 19

OpenView Labs

JUNE 20, 2019

Europe is a major target for B2B SaaS firms seeking to scale their businesses internationally. It’s clear to see that finding new logos in Europe has given many scaling SaaS firms a big headache during the last year. The toughest EU country to hire senior sales/commercial talent. How wrong can they be!

Scale 45

Scale B2B Sales Hiring Scaling 45

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.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourced Development 19

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

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2019

I actually worked in sales for five and a half years and that’s probably why I have tended to gravitate to B2B marketing. Worked as an AE and then a sales manager. Decided to go to business school, did that for a little bit and then came out in management consulting, a company. So, they’re a B2B piece.

Sales Recruiting 164

Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 164

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. For startups creating categories, the value of dominating a market while scaling can result in operational benefits as well.

Scale 108

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 108

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

Scale 111

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Role: VP of Customer Success Location: Miami, FL, US Organization: AutoLeadStar As a VP of Customer Success, you will provide the front-line relationship for a select group of customers on an ongoing basis, and liaise with external and internal stakeholders as needed.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale User Experience 19

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Customer Success leaders benefit from a personal framework since time is in short supply and we constantly need to prioritize our efforts. The P’s & T’s of Customer Success reflect my current framework—which is always in the process of refinement. What are my P’s & T’s of Customer Success?

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 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. Due to his success, Ryan has been named to Forbes’ List of World’s Most Influential CMOs. Which is a super useful tactic.

Sales Hiring 131

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 131

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Sales Stack 2021. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2020: THE TOOLS. Sales technology for professional sales will be more important than ever. In 2020 almost every single Sales Professional was forced inside. Same goes for Sales Professionals.

Scale 104

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 104