Strategic Customer Success Manager

Company: Atlassian
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: October 23, 2024

Job Description:

Principal Customer Success Manager, StrategicAtlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.Atlassian Strategic Customer Success Managers (CSMs) help customers realize the value in their Atlassian investment. They engage customers to unlock early and sustained outcomes by delivering standard methodologies at scale that support product adoption, solution expansion, and long-term growth of customer users.As a Strategic CSM, you'll build relationships and demonstrate an understanding of the Atlassian customer journey. You'll be equipped to guide complex customers over their hurdles, delivering value realization through proactive and programmatic customer engagement and best practices. You'll use your solution expertise to cut across multiple products and solution practice areas. You'll work with a variety of customer profiles including C-Level contacts, executives, and multi-layered global teams to support the successful adoption and expansion of their Atlassian solution investment. To help our teams work together, you will be fully remote, but requires you to work CEST Time Zone hours. You will report to the Regional Head of Customer Success.Your future teamWith over 300,000 customers worldwide, Atlassian is helping organisations like NASA, IBM, Hubspot, Samsung and Coca-Cola advance humanity through the power of incredible software that unleashes the potential of every team. With a focus on value, we help our customers understand how our products combine to create enterprise solutions that transform their business's outcomes. We're different from other organisations because we approach everything we do using our value of 'play as a team'. We support each other, celebrate our wins together and share knowledge. Our employees work with Atlassian, not for Atlassian.In this role, you will:

• Develop a trusted advisor relationship with customers at the C-suite and executive level, helping them succeed with our platform and ensuring they receive maximum value from our solution throughout their lifecycle.
• Experience with SaaS business models and ability to support strategic and complex enterprise customer needs resulting in Value Realization across global teams.
• Guide the customer and Atlassian Account Team to develop customer Success Plans, including regular check-ins, QBRs (Quarterly Business Reviews), and strategic planning sessions.
• Experience navigating complex implementation processes with multiple partners globally to meet complex enterprise needs.
• Maintain an understanding of our products and solutions and speak with customers about the most relevant features for their specific requirements.
• Engage with your customers to unlock early and sustained product adoption and success with Atlassian Solutions.
• Develop and execute adoption strategies targeting high value accounts, driving change management, and expanding customer footprint.
• Mitigate churn through early risk identification, intervention, escalation and mitigation in partnership with your account team and in particular the Account Associate.
• Be the Voice of the Customer to provide internal feedback on how Atlassian can better serve our Strategic customers.Your background:
• 8-10+ years of experience in Customer Success or account management with a track record managing strategic customers with a complex SaaS product portfolio.
• Experience establishing yourself as a trusted advisor with customer partners to guide outcomes.
• Experience using Success Plans to ensure goals are aligned from a business strategy perspective and success metrics are identified.
• Understanding of common Jira and Confluence end-user use cases and ways of working, with ability to demonstrate those use cases, and understanding of configuration trade-offs.
• Collaborate internally across product, sales, support and marketing to facilitate a seamless customer experience.
• Experience balancing a book of business in a customer-facing environment.
• Problem-solving skills and a customer-centric mindset.
• Experience with Gainsight (or similar CRM tool), Salesforce and BI tools such as Tableau.CompensationAt Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
• Zone A: $171,800 - $229,000
• Zone B: $154,600 - $206,100
• Zone C: $142,600 - $190,100This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more.About AtlassianAt Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
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