Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. The opportunity emerged out of a shift in how we practice sales. Starting a new sales team is not unlike doing improv.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

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. Scaled customer success roles This role is starting to carve out its own space and made a huge splash in 2023.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 52

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 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. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Manual processes first. Names stick.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

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

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.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 160

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 178

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 178

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 174

Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Like most things in life, hiring sales talent is a matter of timing. Especially since the best candidates with strong sales skills are usually snatched up within 10 days. That’s why it’s critical to overcome indecision and move quickly when recruiting sales talent. Is it unrealistic sales quotas?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Compensation Underperforming Technical Team 76

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.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 117

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?

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Onboarding Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 58

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. Scaling a business isn’t easy. Two of the key challenges that come with scaling are getting the right talent and getting enough new customers. Read on to find out which decision is better for you.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

What is Sales Operations? Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. Technology.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Technical Review 87

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. Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Yes, it does not scale, but the beauty is the product.

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Expense management was something people care about. And also very fast onboarding. And that one was actually the toughest one to do, this really instant onboarding that we have. For example, never onboarding. So, we were like, “Hey, we need to make this onboarding more simple.” ” Anu: Got it.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 160

Casey Accidental

JANUARY 23, 2019

Because of training and car inspections, supply side onboarding had to be decentralized to a GM in each market. Uber started to build up world class acquisition teams in HQ that didn’t have full control on how to scale customer acquisition. They need a functional manager that can tie them into the HQ’s strategy.

Scale 73

Scale Marketplace as a Service Outsourcing Services Scaling 73

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2022

Onboarding with Intercom. The onboarding experience was so supportive. I’d just moved from India, and my managers made sure that I settled into Intercom, and Ireland, without having to stress about getting to grips with a new job in the first few weeks. For my first year, I worked with the Billing team. Reward kindness.

Engineering 118

Engineering Scale Sales Hiring Company Culture 118

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales. So how do you build a hiring machine to get the team to that early scaling phase.

Sales Hiring 114

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Company Culture 114

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. How you can tailor onboarding to customers. But it doesn’t really scale when you’re selling to the masses.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 131

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A big part of why we are seeing this growth is that our customers have found that when they use Intercom to engage their website visitors, conversion rates and sales increase by more than 80%! He has led Intercom engineering for the past 5 years and has grown and scaled our products to where they are today.

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Scale Sales Hiring CTO Engineering 195

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Own the overall success of the CS function through leadership, KPIs, systems, tools, and processes. Recruit experienced Customer Success Managers, defining the appropriate functional vs. technical profile needed for the customer vertical. Identifying operational improvements in order to scale the team and department.

Sales Recruiting 19

Sales Recruiting Customer Success Technical Review Scale 19

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. Create a productive, high-energy, and achievement-oriented team environment.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Operational efficiency. 19

SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2022

Having learned from thousands of customers and prospects, Sarah Lash, Envoy’s head of enterprise sales, will talk about what it takes to guide and scale enterprise sales programs during an uncertain future. In my first six months at Envoy , I grew the sales team from six to 17. Combine Strategies To Drive Sales.

Sales Recruiting 228

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Enterprise 228

SmartKarrot

MAY 20, 2022

Forecast hiring needs and recruit members who are focused on delivering world class customer experience. Scale the Customer Success department against business needs through hiring, cultivating leaders, installing best practices, and reinventing processes as we grow. Provide visibility to leadership on customer initiatives.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 19

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. Recruit, educate, inspire, and offer guidance to a group of customer success managers.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review 19

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Amyra Rand , VP of Sales & Strategic Partnerships at Criteria Corp. Amyra is also a member of the Revenue Collective & the Chapter VP at the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals; she is an MBA from Pepperdine. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale 40

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 24, 2018

I joined intercom remotely two years ago as the first person in Sydney, and since then we have scaled the APAC team (lovingly referred to as the APAC Alliance) to almost 20 people across 4 countries. Due to our rapid growth, we needed to scale the team remotely before opening an office. Returning from the mothership.

Sales Hiring 149

Sales Hiring Company Culture Scale Customer Support 149

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

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. First-level support for accounts that are owned.

Technical Review 19

Technical Review Customer Success Development Team Review Systems Review 19

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

Sales Hiring 156

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 156

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

How do you onboard them and shorten the time to them being successful? I think the most challenging part for a sales leader in this type of environment is there has been this huge push for inside sales teams, right? Joyce Kim: So, next question is sort of about the sales. You talked about it, inside sales.

Sales Hiring 176

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Sales Recruiting 176

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 261

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 261

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Whether you are just starting in a CS leadership role or if you have been leading a group for a while, it’s critical to evaluate your priorities. The core structure of every Customer Success Program is: Onboarding, Engagement and Adoption, Renewals, Advocacy and Churn. Scaling, Automation & Tech. Priorities.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 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

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).

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourced Development 19

SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Develop programs and playbooks designed to achieve deep customer specificity and repeatability at scale. 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.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Scale User Experience 19

SmartKarrot

JUNE 25, 2021

Operationalize the business processes to scale the Customer Success organization for significant growth. Operationalize the business processes to scale the Customer Success organization for significant growth. Passion for developing teams and providing leadership to both formal and indirect reports.

Development Team Review 10

Development Team Review Customer Success Technical Review Sales Recruiting 10