Customer Success Manager

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UpSlide is the number one productivity solution provider for financial services. Our software dramatically improves the functionality of PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Power BI and enables users at firms like Citi, KPMG, and BNP Paribas to focus on high-value tasks rather than formatting or copy-pasting. We're scaling up with 160+ employees across our offices in New York, London, Paris (HQ), Singapore, and Berlin.

Our values

Our values guide our approach to work and are at the heart of our recruitment process. To join our team, we look for individuals who value:

• Excellence: We think that every detail counts, and we place great importance on the quality of our deliverables.
• Trust: We are passionate, committed, and free to act with autonomy.
• Happiness at work: We enjoy looking on the bright side and we share our enthusiasm with our colleagues and clients.

The team

The London office currently has 35 dynamic individuals (BDRs, AEs, Consultants, CSMs). You'll be working directly with 4 fellow CSMs and managed by Alex (Success Lead).

At UpSlide, we believe in fostering a positive and collaborative work environment. Here are some of the team rituals that contribute to our vibrant culture:

• Weekly goûter: Every Thursday afternoon the office meets up for snacks and chitchat.
• Monthly social events: Once a month, we organize social events, ranging from team-building activities to casual outings. These events create a relaxed atmosphere for team bonding.
• Yearly seminar in Paris: The yearly seminar in Paris is a key highlight for the UpSlide team, bringing together members from different offices around the world. This event, hosted at our Paris headquarters, serves as a unique opportunity for teams to connect, collaborate, and enhance the overall cohesion of the UpSlide global family.

Team goals

You'll be covering the UK & EMEA* regions and will be looking after our rapidly growing book of clients.With the support of senior colleagues and a growing global function' global Success function, you will have the opportunity to take on early responsibility for some of our most important clients and progress quickly.

*This will not include the FR and DE speaking parts of Europe

Your responsibilities

Client satisfaction, adoption, and renewal

• Build and nurture strong relationships with key stakeholders within customer organizations, becoming a trusted business advisor.
• Master and enrich your client knowledge and UpSlide product knowledge to be your clients' go-to source of knowledge and advice
• Establish clear retention goals and process milestones for the client and collaborators to work toward
• Deliver engaging and thorough training sessions to clients to ensure great adoption
• Maintain a detailed understanding of products and services, assist clients with questions, and proactively suggest the best products for their needs
  • Lead business reviews and introduce your client to new features relevant to their use case
  • Organize webinars to train your clients on specific features
  • Assist in creating training courses and educational materials for our clients
• Promote an energetic fan base for our product and locate brand ambassadors (client sponsors) to champion UpSlide's benefits and value across the client's business
• Work closely with the Sales teams to build account plans and identify expansion and upsell opportunities
• Lead workshops with our Product team to represent your clients' voice

Data analysis and innovation

• Analyze your clients' usage statistics to boost usage through training sessions, webinars, etc.
• Collect and process customer feedback through surveys
• Optimize existing processes within the company and actively enhance customer success initiatives
  • Innovate by creating new onboarding tools such as webinars, a statistics dashboard, and a newsletter
  • Organize events to promote UpSlide

Your goals

3 months

• Be familiar with UpSlide and our client industries
• Be signed off to give training sessions and business reviews

4-6 months

• Be autonomously managing your book of clients and handling day-to-day interactions
• Deepening your technical knowledge of UpSlide
• Adding value to the team (process improvements, suggesting ways to solve tricky client situations, taking on projects outside of core role)

9 months

• Be on track to hit annual KPIs (renewal rate, client satisfaction, and client usage statistics)

You are a great fit if you have:

• At least 1 to 3 years of proven experience in mid-tier and enterprise B2B relationship management or account management
• Technical aptitude, strong problem-solving abilities, and analytical skills
• Ability to build and maintain relationships internally and with clients
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Interest in leveraging data, analytics, and automation to drive ROI
• Strong team player mind, always looking for ways to contribute but also manages well independently
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint)
• An eye for detail

We'd love it if:

• You have SaaS experience
• You have previous client-side experience in financial services
• You can switch contexts quickly and easily, and are skilled in managing multiple priorities at the same time
• You can speak another language (French, Spanish, Arabic, etc.)
• You have strong project management skills to manage an exciting portfolio of clients
• You have Power BI experience

If you don't tick all the boxes but you think you'd be a great fit, please apply and tell us why.

Recruitment process

• First call with Andrea (Talent Acquisition Specialist)
• A video interview with a member of the Success team
• An in-person interview presenting a case study to Alex (Success Lead)
• Final video interview with Aurore (Deputy CEO)

We'll conduct a reference check to learn how to help you thrive!

On average our process lasts 3 weeks.

What we offer

Make a real difference and be at the very centre of a self-funded and growing SaaS company (doubling every two years for the past 10 years)!

International environment: Start-up with five offices (Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Singapore) and users in more than 60 countries

Hybrid work: 2-3 days/week hybrid work policy

Work-from-home budget: €500 WFH equipment budget

Training & professional development: Collaboration with our sister company, IPH, who provides UpSliders with training on key soft skills and management

Wellness package: £45 per month for physical and mental wellness activities

Flexi-work: Flexible working hours

Parental leave: Paid parental leave for the birthing/non-birthing parent and help for parents of children under seven

Beautiful office: An inspiring eighth-floor corner office near Liverpool Street with beautiful common areas and meeting rooms, a balcony with a view, bike storage and showers, tea/coffee, etc.

Holidays: 25 days plus public holidays & a half-day of additional holiday per year of full service (up to 5 additional days)

Company events: Office socials and international company events (e.g. annual company seminar, team seminar, and sustainability actions taken throughout the year)

Compensation: Competitive package
• Pension: Pension contributions (with matched contributions up to 5% after one year)

Health insurance: Opportunity to opt into a health insurance plan (Vitality)

More about UpSlide

• On top of exciting business challenges in a fast-growing market, you will find a friendly, caring, and challenging culture
• You will be met with opportunities to acquire new skills, learn from others in a multicultural environment, and grow as a person
• UpSlide employees have committed to making a positive impact on the world. We obtained B Corp certification in 2022 with strong commitments toward our employees, community, clients, suppliers, and the environment. UpSlide is now 30% owned by employees
  More info here: upslide.net/en/from-a-to-b-corp-our-mission-for-positive-impact/
• UpSlide was ranked #1 best place to work in 2019 and #1 best place to work in 2020 in the category "best company for remote work"
  More info here: upslide.net/en/happiness-at-work-recipe/

As a B Corp-certified company, we have strong commitments toward our employees, community, clients, suppliers, and the environment. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels welcome. This commitment to diversity and inclusion is applied in our recruitment process and your employee experience once you've joined UpSlide