Cresta
Strategic Customer Success Manager- West
Job Summary
The role of a Strategic Customer Success Manager at Cresta focuses on fostering long-term relationships with high-value customers, acting as a trusted advisor to align their goals with Cresta's solutions. Responsibilities include optimizing the customer journey, driving renewal and expansion efforts, and collaborating with internal teams to enhance customer experience. Candidates should have 4-6 years of experience in customer-facing roles, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage complex processes independently. The position offers benefits such as health plans, a wellness allowance, remote work support, and flexible paid time off.
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About the Role:
As a Strategic Customer Success Manager at Cresta, you will be pivotal in ensuring our customers' success and driving business growth. You will be a trusted advisor and leader across some of our most high-value, complex customer relationships. This role is tailored for seasoned experts with deep domain knowledge, strong executive presence, and a passion for delivering measurable outcomes. You will lead strategic initiatives, mentor team members, and drive long-term customer value through renewal, expansion, and innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Customer Relationship Management: Foster strategic relationships with customers by acting as a trusted advisor, developing and executing success plans that align customer goals with business objectives, and holding the team accountable for delivering measurable, outcome-driven results.
- Customer Journey Optimization: Continuously analyze and improve the customer journey, identifying opportunities to enhance customer experience and drive product adoption.
- Stakeholder Strategy: Drive stakeholder mapping and multi-threaded engagement strategies to strengthen relationships.
- Renewal and Expansion: Drive renewal and expansion efforts, ensuring customers maximize the value of our products and services and identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Track and be driven by key Customer Success metrics (e.g. NRR, GRR, Time to Value) and use insights to guide decisions and uncover improvement opportunities.
- Collaboration: Collaborate closely with sales, marketing, product, and engineering teams to ensure a seamless customer experience and drive business growth.
- Account Management: Regularly interface with multiple levels of customers from individual agents to executives through regular recurring meetings and quarterly business reviews (which you'll run).
- Customer Advocacy: Advocate for customer needs in product roadmap discussions and internal planning.
- Be a Builder: Build and configure the Cresta product for customers while also enabling them to be fully self-sufficient.
We're looking for someone who:
- 4-6 years of Customer Success, Account Management or similar customer-facing roles in a SaaS or Contact Center environment
- Is a fantastic written and verbal communicator: able to put together presentations that tell a compelling story, to have difficult conversations on changing processes or behaviors across multiple levels of customers, and to be able to stand your ground or back up your recommendations with data.
- Is highly organized: able to manage complex internal and external processes with many different stakeholders and timelines ensuring that all parties are kept in the loop with clear notes, action items, and next steps to keep projects on track and successful.
- Is autonomous and able to be self-sufficient in tasks like fundamental data analysis, lightweight software configuration, and in general able to pick up new skills quickly and build out processes and tools to scale work beyond single customers.
- Is willing to travel (~25%) and be willing to be on frequent video calls with customers in EST - PST time zones
Perks & Benefits:
- We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
- Paid parental leave to support you and your family
- Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
- Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
- Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
- PTO: Flexible
Compensation:
Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US. Your recruiter can provide further details.
We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored. If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to [email protected].
Cresta
Cresta was founded with the goal of using AI to help people learn high-value skills and in doing so, make business radically more productive. Cresta’s team of world-renowned AI thought leaders, industry experts, and top-tier investors lean on experience from scaling companies like Google, Facebook, and Open AI on our march towards helping professionals become experts on day one.
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