Senior Customer Success Manager

Druva, the autonomous data security company, puts data security on autopilot with a 100% SaaS, fully managed platform to secure and recover data from all threats. The Druva Data Security Cloud ensures the availability, confidentiality, and fidelity of data - providing customers with autonomous protection, rapid incident response, and guaranteed data recovery. The company is trusted by its more than 6,000 customers, including 65 of the Fortune 500, to defend business data in today's ever-connected world. Amidst a rapidly evolving security landscape, Druva offers a $10 million Data Resiliency Guarantee ensuring customer data is protected and secured against every cyber threat. Visit and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

About the Department

Customer Success Managers, Technical Support Agents, Professional Services Consultants, and Customer Operations - all working together as part of our Global Customer Services team to help our customers adopt Druva and create the most reliable data protection service in the world. The GCS team at Druva helps customers solve real, technical problems while retaining and expanding the revenue streams that help the company invest in the future of our cloud-based services for companies around the world. We believe that putting our people first, and fostering a creative, exciting, and stimulating environment is a prerequisite to achieving and surpassing our commercial goals. 

Customer Success Manager

You will be responsible for ensuring the success of Druva's core Mid-market and SMB customers. You will bring great organizational skills, product knowledge and project management, as well as a high degree of empathy to ensure the customer's satisfaction with Druva's services. You will maintain a deep understanding of our solutions and present to customers about the most relevant features/functionality for their specific business needs. You'll be expected to meet and exceed the goal for net retention (both retention and expansion). You'll do this while tracking, analyzing and communicating key metrics and business trends (such as deployment, adoption and business reviews) as they relate to the global Customer Success strategy. This is a cross functional role, working closely with Product, Professional Services, Customer Support and other teams to close the feedback loop on customer and market needs.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Advocate for and represent the voice of the customer internally
• Do technical reviews of customer infrastructure and make recommendations that will help customers to use our products optimally
• Work with your account teams to plan and execute long-term account plans to facilitate retention and growth via product and new business unit expansion
• Manage the proactive customer life cycle leading to a high rate of renewal and growth
• Develop and maintain long-term relationships with stakeholders in your account portfolio
• Identify and mitigate risk in customer accounts
• Work cross-functionally with Professional Services, Product, Support, Marketing and other teams to resolve customer business issues and work towards their stated goals
• Manage customer feedback and product needs by providing feature requests to internal partner teams

Must-Have Skills:

• Proven track record of meeting and exceeding targets
• Understanding of Enterprise SaaS business motions and customer lifecycle
• Proven ability to develop working relationships at all levels of management, both inside your company and within your customer accounts
• Experience with sales, project management, account portfolio planning and prioritization
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and perform effectively under pressure.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• Possess top-notch organizational and analytical skills, especially with Salesforce/Gainsight knowledge
• Understanding of Virtualization and Cloud computing (Hypervisors , Vmware, Xen)
• Track record of successful planning and execution of Executive Business Reviews
• Experience with migration between on-premise and cloud platform
• Experience with System Administration with Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat), Microsoft Office, Microsoft 365, Google Workspaces
• Experience in generating expansion opportunities and securing references from your portfolio will be a great advantage

Qualification: 

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of experience in a Customer Success role servicing enterprise account