Manager, Customer Success

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As the Manager of Customer Success - you will lead a team of 8-10 Customer Success Managers (CSMs) dedicated to supporting our customers. This role involves overseeing the recruitment, evaluation, training, and coaching of an experienced team in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment. Your primary focus will be to understand the unique challenges and needs of our managed customers and drive the vision for their optimal customer experience.

You will collaborate closely with other Customer Success leaders to cultivate a team of highly successful Customer Success professionals. Together, you will ensure the delivery of exceptional customer service to our rapidly growing global customer base. As a key player in our customer success-focused, results-driven organization, you will also be responsible for driving sustainable, long-term customer value. Your performance will be measured by the team's ability to retain customers and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction.

How You’ll Make a Difference :

• Manage a team of 8-10 direct reports - recruit, interview, hire, and train new team members
• Serve as a coach and a leader, helping to develop the skills of your individual contributors so they can achieve their career goals and proactively (and collaboratively) remove obstacles
• Serve as a point of escalation for customer issues, resolving them in a manner that builds trust with customers and Klaviyo team members
• Manage day-to-day operations, forecasting, data analysis, goal setting, career development, performance management, and process improvement
• Manage NPS and retention for your team, discovering trends to improve or capitalize on to improve customer outcomes
• Develop strong relationships with sales, onboarding, marketing, and product teams to understand customer challenges and needs
• Be a leader within the company, exemplifying an excellent attitude that inspires others to do their best work.
• Drive sustainable, long-term customer value by ensuring exceptional customer service and support.
• Monitor and measure team performance based on customer retention and satisfaction metrics.
• Transform workflows by putting AI at the center, building smarter systems and ways of working from the ground up.

Who You Are :

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Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all our US locations. The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors, including the applicant’s job-related skills, relevant experience, education or training, and work location.

In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility. Please visit Klaviyo Rewards to find out more about our Total Rewards package.

Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary / OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Base Pay Range For US Locations :

$116,000 — $174,000 USD

Get to Know Klaviyo

We’re Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star : delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.

AI fluency at Klaviyo includes responsible use of AI (including privacy, security, bias awareness, and human-in-the-loop). We provide accommodations as needed.

Klaviyo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, veteran or active military status, marital status, criminal record, genetics, retaliation, sexual harassment or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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