Customer Success Strategist

7 days ago


Seattle, Washington, United States Lumen Inc Full time
About Lumen

Lumen is a leading provider of digital infrastructure solutions. We connect people, data, and applications – quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Our mission is to ignite business growth by empowering our customers to achieve their goals.

We are committed to creating a culture of teamwork, trust, and transparency. Our employees are the driving force behind our success, and we strive to provide them with the flexibility and support they need to thrive.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity

We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success. We have been recognized as one of the greatest workplaces for diversity by Newsweek and have achieved a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index for five consecutive years.

The Role

We are seeking a Customer Success Executive to join our team. This role will be responsible for ensuring our largest customers are wildly successful in delivering on their critical business objectives through leveraging their current Lumen solutions. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building long-term, value-based relationships with decision-makers and influencers.

Main Responsibilities

Build long-term, value-based relationships with decision-makers and influencers to understand the customer's landscape and establish loyalty

Manage overall customer metrics, including usage data, health indicators, and renewal dates to align with customer objectives

Evaluate product and portal adoption maturity level to address roadblocks and provide best practices and a prescriptive approach to address needs

Construct and implement a customer success plan across all steps of the lifecycle, setting expectations for each milestone, ensuring personalized value, and driving positive customer experience to achieve desired outcomes

Recognize opportunities for expansion based on knowledge of the Lumen portfolio, partnering with sales as necessary

Implement revenue management practices driving accountability and goal alignment, revenue retention, and growth strategies including value realization, renewal execution, risk management, and customer growth

Manage risks to customer success, identify root causes, define and activate solutions, and deploy cross-functional support to resolve

Partner with sales, delivery, and support to set proper expectations and ensure successful deployment of solutions and services

Requirements

7+ years of customer success or account management experience

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Experience in working with complex, Fortune 500, multi-divisional, international customers

Comfortable presenting, consulting, and advising at C-level and other executives

Assertive verbal and written communications skills with the ability to build strategic relationships (deep and wide) within organizations

Ability to work closely with the customer and effectively negotiate directly with the customer and internally on their behalf

Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into customer insights and leverage with customer engagement strategies

Experience in collaborating and guiding cross-functional teams (e.g., Sales, Product, Marketing, Service Delivery)

Brings strong technology and data networking knowledge with technical aptitude to stay current in evolving technology sector

Effective and confident decision-making based on business and financial principles

Working knowledge of MS Office suite

Compensation

The starting salary for this role differs based on the employee's primary work location. Employees typically do not start at the top of the range, though compensation depends on each individual's qualifications.

Location-based pay ranges are as follows: $90,960 - $151,600 in CA and WA. As with the pay range variety that's based on the region of a country, specific offers are determined by various factors such as experience, education, skills, certifications, and other business needs.

What to Expect Next

Based on your job application information, you may be given the opportunity to complete a video interview immediately after applying. This will include a set of questions for you to record a response to in addition to Game Challenges. Completion of this video interview is a requirement in order to be considered for our open position. Now not a good time? No worries, we will also send you an email with a link to complete the video interview. We strongly recommend that you complete this within 5 days of your application date.

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