Manager, Customer Success

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It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!
At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.
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Make Your Mark:
The Manager, Customer Success directly defines, manages and delivers on a Customer Success program strategy specifically associated with a BlackLine onboarded customer segment(s). This program strategy should encompass the activities, resources, and relationships necessary to optimize customers' adoption of subscribed licenses and products, prevent attrition and churn, and continually enhance customer health and satisfaction. This role includes the hiring, supervision, management and training of any program allocated Customer Success Managers in becoming experts in the Company's platform and products and in using their domain expertise to provide best practice deliverables.
The Manager of Customer Success proposes recommendations and designs innovative solutions to help optimize customers' adoption and expansion of BlackLine automation capabilities, prevent attrition and churn, and continually enrich the customer experience. The Manager of Customer Success leverages their BlackLine expertise, their accounting, internal controls, and process improvement expertise, as well as their professional judgment to provide leading practices, insights, and deliverables. These deliverables may include one to many thought leadership, Executive touch points and strategy sessions, and recommendations to accelerate customers' accounting innovation journey.
The Manager, Customer Success will employ effective and repeatable world-class processes and prescriptive touchpoints, including campaigns, coaching, demonstrations, success plans and reviews to nurture extraordinary customer engagement and excitement throughout their BlackLine journey. All facets of the Manager of Customer Success role are designed to drive customers to BlackLine nirvana.
You'll Get To:

• Define, manage and deliver on a Customer Success program strategy specifically associated with a BlackLine onboarded customer segment(s).
• Supervise, manage and train all program allocated Customer Success Managers.
• Hire any open program allocated Customer Success Manager positions.
• Coordinate CSM program workflow and assign project tasks as needed.
• Supervise CSM team's answers of client platform, product and domain questions.
• Supervise CSM team's performance of Success Planning activities for onboarded clients to ensure BlackLine understands their corporate goals and objectives and any challenges to deliver relevant and pertinent demonstrations, coaching and/or referrals to other Customer Teams.
• Supervise CSM team's performance of quality presentations, coaching and other activities to the Company's onboarded clients through webcasts, teleconferences and onsite visits.
• Lead team members as they assess current state process, architect potential solutions, and deliver optimized process transformations using the customer's data to show the art of the possible adopting the full platform and to help customers unlock accelerated value from BlackLine solutions.
• Keep current on the BlackLine platform and all BlackLine solutions, including detailed product functionality and its proper use.
• Coach and mentor CSMs helping advise BlackLine customers.
• Design original, innovative solutions for complex customer challenges where no standard solution currently exists as appropriate.
• Articulate value and benefits associated with optimized solutions.
• Leverage prior and current experiences and expertise to develop and deliver thought leadership to customers through webinars and other multi-customer events
• Listen to customers to understand their needs and translate their pain points into actionable BlackLine solutions
• Engage with customer leadership and partner with Account Owners to understand the customers' goals, objectives, and challenges and adapt our SIT offerings to support their needs
• Partner with Strategic Account Managers and other departments on strategic account planning focused on ACV expansion, user adoption, reference, and prevent attrition
• Provide coverage, education, and application expertise by attending and participating in BlackLine User Groups, Client Roundtables, Customer Success Labs, conferences, and other events.
  Exhibit authentic energy for BlackLine solutions and the desire to motivate and engage our customers
• Other duties as assigned

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years customer facing experience (internal or external)
• 5+ years of experience in accounting/auditing and/or in accounting/auditing/financial industry software solutions
• 5+ years BlackLine experience
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Economics or Business Administration
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience building relationships
• Desire to mentor, lead and coach
• Strategic focus with actionable plans
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities, customer needs in high pressure situations with poise, diplomacy and tact.
• Comfort and confidence in dealing with the unknown. An ability to complete the puzzle without the final picture being available for reference.
• Highly process oriented mindset, with an aptitude for dissecting processes and delivering optimized solutions
• Demonstrated value communication skills; succinctly tie customer challenges to actionable solutions that deliver value
• Excellent listening and empathy skills: identify with the customer and want to help solve their business challenges
• Prioritization and time management skills
• Desire to be solution focused
• Strong verbal and written professional communication
• Demonstrated strong presentation skills including content building and delivery in varied settings (live, recorded, webex, etc)
• Constantly elevate knowledge of BlackLine, current accounting practices, and changes in the industry
• Demonstrated advanced knowledge of BlackLine solutions to optimize processes

We're Even More Excited If You Have:

• Recognized process improvement skills and ability to architect multiple solutions with limited customer support/documentation
• Previous supervisory or management experience
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Adaptability to changing priorities and customer needs
• Self-motivated, proactive team player with a natural curiosity and passion for learning
• CPA, CIA or related professional accounting certification

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.