Customer Success Manager
Seismic
Customer Success Manager
Seismic
AI-driven platform for sales enablement
Seismic is the Go-To-Market Performance company, driving how organizations turn their strategy into revenue. Seismic brings together signals from customer conversations, buyer engagement, governed content, coaching and seller behavior to turn intelligence into winning action. Through its AI revenue execution platform, the company equips customer-facing teams with the insights, governance, and contextual guidance they need to execute with confidence and deliver measurable business outcomes. Trusted by 2,500 organizations and over 3.5 million users around the globe, Seismic is headquartered in San Diego with offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Learn more at seismic.com.
Seismic is committed to building an inclusive workplace that ignites growth for our employees and creates a culture of belonging that allows all employees to be seen and valued for who they are. Learn more about DEI at Seismic here.
Location: Hyderabad
Positions: Multiple
We're expanding our Post-Sales team in Hyderabad and looking for experienced Customer Success Managers to join us. Customer Success Managers (CSMs) play a crucial role in ensuring Seismic's customers' satisfaction, retention, and ongoing success. Passion for driving to tangible business outcomes is key. Success is denominated in the form of the sellers, Below the Line (BTL), On the Line (OTL), and Above the Line (ATL) satisfaction and assessment of Seismic value that generates customer revenue retention and the potential for expansion within the customer account hierarchy.
The CSM is expected to understand customers' needs and strategically expand engagement with Seismic. They are tasked with driving product adoption, ensuring customer satisfaction, and fostering advocacy across various organizational levels and functions, including Sales, Marketing, IT, and Finance. Additionally, the CSM proactively identifies account risks, collaborates with internal teams like Deployment Consultants and Technical Account Managers to optimize implementations, and achieves expertise in the Seismic platform. Ultimately, they deliver essential customer-facing milestones, including Mutual Value Plans, Solution Health Reviews, and Strategic Business Reviews, while partnering with Account Management for renewals and expansions.
As a CSM, you will have the opportunity to help some of the world’s most influential companies solve their toughest problems. As a key member of our post-sales team, the CSM must thrive in a highly collaborative environment and have a proven track record of driving customer value and revenue retention. CSMs may serve in roles that are directly customer-facing, accountable directly for a book of business, or maybe in support of a book of large and/or strategic customers, accountable for key work streams that impact value & revenue, alongside in region CSMs. This role may cover our global customer base.
Analyze customer usage data to identify trends, areas for improvement, and opportunities for increased engagement. and proactively address risks to ensure retention.
Develop actionable insights and recommendations based on data analysis to inform strategic decisions and help customers achieve their goals.
Proactively identify and mitigate customer risks by monitoring adoption metrics and sentiment analysis, escalating issues as needed to ensure retention and growth.
Enable customers to realize the full value of the Seismic platform and be able to articulate that value throughout their company. Deeply understand customer’s needs, thoughtfully helping business leaders to find opportunities to expand value, our footprint and depth of engagement.
Multi-thread to any stakeholder you need to engage across Enablement, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, IT, and others at all levels (ATL, OTL, and BTL) to accomplish your goals; in the event of key customer stakeholder turnover, you seek and build replacement relationships.
Collaborate with your Account Management partners on account strategy and execution.
Identify expansion and upsell opportunities to drive revenue growth.
Identify and position add-on services to support customers in achieving their business outcomes and maximizing ROI.
Ensure execution of customer maturity and technical discussions via coordinating solutions internally across engineering, marketing, product, and support teams
Key KPIs & Deliverables - NRR, GRR, Business Reviews, Success Plans, Account Health, Risk Mitigation.
4 to 7 years of consulting, services, customer success, or account management experience, directly managing customers and customer relationships.
A minimum of 3 years experience in Customer Success Management is a mandatory.
Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, presentations) and the ability to synthesize and summarize complex problems for an executive audience both internally and externally.
Strong collaboration skills to influence and gain alignment across internal and external stakeholders.
Proven ability to consult with customers at all levels of seniority to understand their business goals and to craft and deliver plans to exceed customer expectations for value.
Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and is excited to create structure and process as we go for our largest customers.
Prioritizes customer experience with a focus on customer satisfaction and retention. You strive to understand clients’ strategic business goals, deploy critical thinking in leading and executing your portfolio, anticipate future needs, and determine solutions.
Believes profitable customer relationships are founded on respect and that growth and expansion come from cultivating relationships.
You have shown the capacity to develop relationships and optimize enterprise customer accounts, you understand what it means to evangelize your product.
Excited about the ways products can be used to accelerate business goals. You have a strong intuition for business and an admiration for driving software solutions.
A teammate with a high level of integrity and a desire to assist your team. You stay calm in the face of technical and/or customer challenges. You corral the right people to resolve and infect others with your can-do spirit.
You have skills for digesting and effectively communicating technical concepts across audiences of varying technical abilities. You’re resourceful - you might not have all the answers, but you know how to find them.
You have a strong background in project management, organizing complex customer engagements across multiple stakeholder groups.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Please be aware we have noticed an increase in hiring scams potentially targeting Seismic candidates. Read our full statement on our Careers page.
1) What does this company do? It provides a platform for sales enablement that equips customer-facing teams with AI-powered content, tools, insights, and skills to improve customer experiences and drive growth. 2) How does this product work? The platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze customer interactions and content, delivering the right message at the right time. It supports sales teams with resources, workflows, and analytics to boost productivity and engagement, delivered via a subscription software model. 3) How is it different from competitors? It focuses on AI-driven insights and tools specifically for customer-facing teams, aiming to optimize messaging and timing to improve engagement, backed by ongoing research and development in AI enablement. 4) What is the goal? To help businesses optimize sales processes, increase sales productivity, and enhance the customer experience to drive business growth.
Explore more opportunities at Seismic