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Octopus Deploy is one of Australia’s fastest-growing software companies (and we’re taking on the world). After bootstrapping for a decade, in 2021, we quietly raised Australia's second-largest ever venture capital raise, accepting a USD 172M minority investment from Insight Partners.
Octopus has a long-term vision, a strategic roadmap for the product and business, objectives we want to hit, and a time frame in which we want to achieve these goals. To help us achieve these objectives we are hiring a Manager for our international Customer Success Management team. You will work with the VP of Customer Success and the Customer Success Group management team to build a world-class team of CSMs that has the right people, the right values, and is organized, creative and disciplined enough to meet our objectives.
This is a full-time remote position reporting to our VP of Customer Success. The position requires a dedicated working space with minimal distractions as well as a reliable broadband connection to conduct video-based meetings. Some travel will be required.
Salary Expectations: USD $120,000-140,000 annual + stock options
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Have multiple years of experience in leading and building a customer success management team.
Have previous experience building playbooks and processes, as well as defining and designing our customer's journey, including key customer interactions and expected value propositions and metrics.
Will be comfortable operating a team as they grow to scale.
Enjoy being a positive contributor to how we approach people and culture in the Customer Success Group. This includes hiring, performance reviews, culture fit, and how we pay.
Are comfortable hiring and, when necessary, exiting, members of the Customer Success Management team, within the overall strategy as defined by the VP of Customer Success.
Have experience managing and growing a global workforce.
Are comfortable reinforcing our cultural values (bias for action, organic decision-making, helping out, customer empathy) as this is something that comes naturally to you.
Demonstrate experience with ensuring compliance with business objectives.
Are familiar with working directly with VP-level management, while working closely with your partner managers to ensure that customer needs are being met.
Have used Zendesk and/or Salesforce in the past, including their reporting features.
Enjoy proactively coaching people, accelerating them along their personal growth trajectory, while also recognizing and managing underperformance where needed.
Aren't afraid to manage up, as well as down.
Understand the importance of being helpful, how it helps our customers and by extension how it helps Octopus.
Love maintaining or improving customer perception of the quality and trustworthiness of our product (Octopus Deploy)
Have experience handling interpersonal disputes between team members.
Taking responsibility for the people in your team, the way they work, and the results they deliver.
Developing and maintaining playbooks for key phases of the customer journey including Onboarding, Adoption, Renewal and Expansion.
Developing, monitoring, and ensuring compliance with your teams and Octopus Deploy’s SLAs, OKR’s, KPI’s and overall business objectives.
Ensuring that we are providing proactive engagements with our customers with the aim of reducing the number of inbound customer requests.
Empowering the team to get things done and driving results collaboratively.
Recognizing dysfunction in the team and working effectively to resolve it.
Clarifying goals, roles, and execution plans for the team.
Helping the team to understand the company strategy and how they are contributing to the big picture.
Proactively coaching people, accelerating them along their personal growth trajectory.
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