Customer Success Manager

Summary

Join D2L's Talent Acquisition team as a Customer Success Manager and be the primary owner of business relationships with North American Higher Education customers. Develop and manage customer success and retention plans, ensuring customer satisfaction and driving adoption of D2L's Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS). Collaborate cross-functionally, report on customer success criteria, and support the sales process. Build strong relationships with customers, providing solution planning and execution, and educating clients on support resources. This role requires 3+ years of experience in customer success or account management, strong relationship-building skills, and experience with strategic goal setting and measurement. A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required. D2L offers a competitive salary, benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in Customer Success, Account Management or related roles
• Ability to build strong relationships and quickly establish credibility and rapport with senior level and C-suite executives
• Experience establishing joint strategic goals with customers and measuring progress and outcomes
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across multiple internal and external teams
• High energy level, demonstrated drive to succeed, and a sense of urgency
• Excellent communication and analytical skills
• Ability to travel approximately 30% of the time to customer locations
• Bachelor’s degree required and/or equivalent experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Manage key strategic D2L customers, with a focus on developing strong, referenceable relationships
• Develop and manage a Customer Success Plan with the customer that articulates customer success goals, customer success measurement criteria, obstacles and risks
• Develop and manage a Customer Retention Plan that articulates the drivers of customer and product retention and associated risks
• Assist customer with key internal projects driving the value of Brightspace in their environment
• Ensure cross team customer collaboration
• Report against customer success criteria and manage initiatives to meet them
• Oversee execution of remediation items for the Customer Success Plan and Customer Retention Plan, and communicate the progress internally and externally
• Drive product adoption by setting adoption and usage targets with the customer that support their customer success goals
• Supports Client Sales Executive during renewal process
• Develop and manage an engagement model with the customer that expands and manages all key relationships within the customer and D2L
• Coordinate and conduct regularly scheduled business reviews with the customer leadership and administration teams
• Serve as key stakeholder during Implementation phase and facilitate transition out of implementation to support
• Develop a consultative relationship with each customer and work in conjunction with other D2L teams and SMEs to provide solution planning and execution
• Educate clients on support channels, self-service tools, release processes, and other resources to drive operational self-sufficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within a fast paced, growth organization is ideal
• Experience working in education technology or knowledge of business drivers for Higher Education is plus

Benefits

• Wellness Subsidy
• Equity Grants
• Variable Incentive
• Impactful work transforming the way the world learns
• Flexible work arrangements
• Learning and Growth opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $4,000 CAD for continuing education through our Catch the Wave Program
• 2 Paid Days off for Catch the Wave related activities like exams or final assignments
• Employee wellbeing (Access to mental health services, EFAP program, financial planning and more)
• Retirement planning
• 2 Paid Volunteer Days
• Competitive Benefits Package
• Home Internet Reimbursements
• Employee Referral Program
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Employee Recognition
• Social Events
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