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Customer Success Manager

AT Zendesk
Zendesk

Customer Success Manager

Lisbon, Portugal

Please note, you must have the right to work in Lisbon to be a suitable candidate for this position. We cannot provide visa sponsorship for this role.

Join us on an exciting journey as we build our very first Scaled Customer Success team in Lisbon! This is your chance to be part of a groundbreaking initiative, as we're hiring for 6 CSMs, where your contributions will have an immediate and lasting impact.

If you're passionate about shaping something new and thriving in a dynamic, fast-growing environment, this opportunity is made for you, so read on!

As a Customer Success Manager in the Global Scaled Customer Success organization, your responsibility is to work nimbly across different sizes and segments of customers, delivering 1:1 engagements through comprehensive Discovery and expert Recommendations, facilitating 1:Many webinar events, and scaled campaigns.

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Our goal is to ensure our customers are deriving value, are optimized for success, and are happily growing with Zendesk for the long term.

A day in the life of a Scaled CSM:

  • Working across a large cohort of different types of customers. One day you may be helping a small Retail customer optimize their CX Messaging and the next youre delivering a recommendation to a larger Enterprise organization
  • Youll work cross functionally with Zendesk Advocacy/Support, Sales, Renewals, Professional Services and more.
  • Youll leverage data and insights to shape your approach, inform your discovery, and bolster your recommendations
  • Youll help forecast and mitigate risk, ensuring growth, and drive customer satisfaction
  • You will work with customers to provide consultation, demos and standard processes on Zendesk product capabilities for quick wins
  • Provide guidance on advanced product features and integrations.
  • Youll develop a deep understanding of Zendesks products and have the ability to demo them to customers who are early in their adoption journey and customers who have a long tenure with Zendesk
  • As a group, we host weekly online events that let customers get to know us while they learn alongside their peers.
  • We produce short videos that convey intricate concepts in an easily digestible way.
  • We build outreach campaigns - usually via email & video - that entice customers to engage with us and realize the value of our partnership.

The Scaled team is committed to continuous improvement, testing and iterating, and seeking innovative ways to work efficiently and to deliver the best customer experience possible. Were a global team with members in AMER, EMEA, APAC and LATAM. We value hard work, candor, commitment to one another and our customers, and desire to learn and grow.

Your background:

  • You have 3+ years experience working in Customer Success or Account Management
  • You have experience identifying business objectives and mapping solutions, in a thorough, compelling but crisp manner
  • Youre dynamic, agile and nimble. You want a landscape that challenges you and changes shape vs. remains static
  • You have experience and interest in diving into new products and software systems and can quickly learn and understand how new products work and how customers can get value out of them
  • Written and oral communication skills - You must be able to convey technical information from beginner level users to developers when engaging with customers
  • Youre data driven and have experience with tools like SFDC, Gainsight, Tableau and Zendesk.
  • Youre not satisfied with the status quo and youre driven by continuous improvement and positive customer experiences
  • This position is based in Lisbon, Portugal and requires 3+ days in office per week
  • This position requires fluency in reading, writing and speaking English
  • This position may require flexible working hours to include evenings

This is a great opportunity if youre looking for an opportunity to grow, learn and drive positive experiences for customers.

Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and were proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.

Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to peopleandplaces@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.

Client-provided location(s): Lisbon, Portugal
Job ID: Zendesk-ZENDUSR28901EXTERNALENUS_1315066343
Employment Type: Other