About Gladly:
Gladly is the only customer service software built around people, not tickets. Gladly applies AI differently, to help brands deliver radically personal customer service at scale, enabling consumers to help themselves and turning customer service agents into heroes by making them more productive. Every conversation starts with a real-time understanding of the customer. With every channel built-in – voice, email, SMS, chat, social messaging, self-service – companies have one, lifelong conversation stream with their customers. The world’s most loved brands including Allbirds, Bombas, Crate & Barrel, Ulta Beauty, and Warby Parker leverage Gladly to build lifelong loyal customers.
Our team loves working at Gladly because of its people, continuous growth opportunities, all in commitment to DEIB, collaboration, and culture.
As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager on the Gladly Customer Success team, you are responsible for building long-term strategic relationships, increasing product adoption and ensuring seamless renewals. You will be responsible for our largest customers. You'll work closely with key stakeholders to understand their business objectives and translate that into how best to use Gladly to help them achieve their intended outcomes. As a customer advocate, you'll liaison between our customers and our internal organization, ensuring that their needs and/or requirements are communicated and managed throughout Gladly while balancing these asks with the business needs. You’ll gather customer feedback and product requests while focusing on aligning customer adoption with our current product capabilities. You will own a retention and renewal number on a quarterly and annual basis, as well as help to expand and/or up-sell, as appropriate. In addition to traditional CSM responsibilities, you will help to define and iterate how we approach various programs, customer communications, customer engagement, and strategic planning initiatives.
What you’ll do:
- Own the success of Gladly customers in achieving the value of relationship-based customer service using the Gladly platform.
- Build lasting relationships through consistent engagement with customer executives and managers to instill understanding of product vision, value proposition and features. Proactively engage clients to drive product adoption and optimal product experiences.
- Partner with Sales Account Executive to develop and execute on account plans, ensure alignment within Gladly teams on account strategy. Develop & maintain relationships with other key internal customer champions, including engineering, product and marketing leadership to help strategically guide the direction of the product based on voice of the customer feedback.
- Serve as a product expert for customers, including deployment best practices as well as configuration of product settings/rules to address customer business and technical needs.
- Act as a strategic advisor with the ability to make recommendations on how to best leverage the Gladly platform as well as improve processes that may fall outside of the contact center.
- Resolve account issues quickly, leveraging resources from across the company as needed.
- Contribute to Gladly's Customer Success program development, strategic planning, and customer engagement approach to drive consistency and scale as the company grows.
- Participate in pre-sales activities with prospective customers such as meetings, workshops, and webinars.
Required Skills/Experience
- Previous experience in a B2B client facing role (sales engineering, consulting, professional services, CSM, or technical account management).
- Previous experience implementing SaaS software applications and/or providing technical and strategic advisory services.
- Genuine passion for building and maintaining strong relationships with a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders, from engineering, product, marketing, etc.
- Entrepreneurial. Highly Ethical. Hands on. Passionate. Curious. Persistent. Creative. High standards for personal productivity. Enthusiastic about building Customer Success in a start-up environment.
- Great communication skills - able to provide clear & concise guidance through emails, over the phone, or in person, with a casual and confident tone.
- Excellent organization, project management, time management skills is a must.
- Able to gain consensus and get business and technical teams to work together toward timely issue resolution.
- Able to build and support a business case to customer teams.
- A strong awareness of business processes and ability to translate business processes into enterprise application implementations.
- Effective team player dedicated to continuously improve upon our process of advocating for the customer.
- Innately understand how to balance advocacy for Gladly and the customer by looking for win:win outcomes.
- Comfortable and willing to engage on-site with customers where needed.
Nice to have:
- Previous experience with a major systems integrator and/or cloud-based/SaaS solution offerings company.
- Expertise of customer support software and/or telephony processes.
Compensation
$124,000 to $198,000 OTE per annum + equity + benefits
For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Working at Gladly:
Putting people first is kind of our thing. Not only is it at the core of our product, but shapes our overall culture at Gladly—from our approach to hiring, to our benefits, and how we think about our place in the community.
We have embraced remote work and make it easy for our team to work from anywhere, but we also invest in opportunities to get the teams together in person regularly.
We have a strong work ethic, but value life outside of work, too.
Gladly Beliefs:
- We win as one team: We believe the most important focus for us as a team is making the company successful.
- We are successful when our customers succeed: We are committed to understanding the needs and expectations of our customers. We provide an exceptional product along with expertise and insight to help achieve their goals.
- We believe in challenging the status quo: We know that our greatest strength is our ability to cultivate a growth mindset focused on reinventing customer service.
- We value underdog grit: Success isn't always about having the most resources or the most experience; it's about having the determination and grit to keep pushing forward especially when it’s hard.
- We strive to make every shot count: We will never have enough “shots on goal” so we strive to make every project, feature, customer presentation, the best it can be.
- We embrace transparency: We know the best outcomes come from collaboration followed by communication of and commitment to the decision.
Our focus is on people and that starts with our employees. As an employee you can count on:
- Competitive salaries, stock options
- Medical, Dental, Vision and Life insurance
- Generous paid time off
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- 401K
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Home office stipends
Founded in 2014 by a team of repeat entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits, Gladly is reinventing customer service. By focusing on customers instead of tickets, we are disrupting a $70B market and are proud to count Crate and Barrel, Warby Parker and many other innovative brands as customers. Gladly has raised over $110M from Greylock Partners, NEA, GGV Capital, Glynn Capital and JetBlue Tech Ventures.
Gladly has made the decision to become a fully distributed company, allowing employees to live anywhere in the United States, and candidates to come from nearly any geographical region. That said, we also highly value our collaborative and creative culture and commit to meeting in real life as a company at least once per quarter when it is safe to do so.
What We Do
Gladly is a Radically Personal customer service platform. Designed with people at the center, Gladly enables a single lifelong customer conversation from voice to messaging, and empowers some of today’s most innovative companies to deliver exceptional customer experiences that make customer service a competitive advantage.
Why Work With Us
Putting people first is kind of our thing. Not only is it at the core of our product, but shapes our overall culture at Gladly—from our approach to hiring, to our benefits, and how we think about our place in the community.
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