Head of Customer Success

Posted 23 Days Ago
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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
180K-250K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Software
Fix B2B Telecom.
The Role
The Head of Customer Success at Lightyear will define and execute processes to enhance customer experience, retention, and revenue, collaborating with multiple teams and leading a developing function.
Summary Generated by Built In

The Company: Lightyear builds software that is revolutionizing the telecom management experience for hundreds of enterprises. Lightyear’s platform helps enterprise IT teams automate telecom procurement, network inventory management, telecom bill payment, and much more, and is utilized by companies including Honeywell, Alo Yoga, Palo Alto Networks, and Louis Vuitton. Lightyear has raised nearly $65M from the first investors in Roblox, Discord, Coupang, Robinhood, and Flexport.
The Position: As Lightyear’s Head of Customer Success, you will play a critical role in defining what best-in-class Customer Success looks like for Lightyear by building out and executing processes that impact our customer experience, customer retention, and overall revenue growth. In this position, you’ll work closely with the CEO as well as the Sales, Operations, and Product functions to ensure smooth customer renewals, proactively identify opportunities to grow revenue within existing customers, translate customer utilization data and anecdotes into product and process changes, and deal with customer issues first-hand. The ideal candidate for this will bring together a customer-first mindset with sales and / or customer success past experience, in a SaaS or startup environment. 
This is a “build and lead” role for a function still in its infancy at Lightyear and comes with a highly competitive compensation package. Estimated total cash compensation ranges from $180,000–$250,000, with final compensation determined based on the candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and overall fit for the role.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with the GTM org to measure and drive high-quality customer experiences across pre- and post-sales that results in high net retention, NPS, and upsell
  • Own the customer renewal process to drive best-in-class gross retention
  • Build out the playbook for post-sale opportunity identification and upsells by strategically utilizing customer inventory data and key touchpoints such as QBRs
  • Use product and user analytics to manage and improve the customer experience
  • Engage with customers and provide customer feedback to inform our product roadmap; act as voice of customer regarding issues, opportunities, and enhancements
  • Work closely with the CEO, CTO, Sales, Operations, and Product to meet all goals and objectives across the customer lifecycle
  • Build and maintain strong culture, sentiment, and collaboration across the team
Ideal Qualifications
  • Proven track record of managing key pre-sales and / or post-sales processes at a fast-growing company, or relevant experience in operationally rigorous startup roles
  • Deep understanding of key customer success and customer retention SaaS metrics
  • Experience building and leading successful teams at a SaaS company
  • Strong empathy for customers and passion for revenue processes
  • Strong executive presence and ability to influence customer leadership
  • Experience working with cross functional teams to achieve company objectives
  • Experience working with Salesforce, Hubspot, and other customer analytics software
  • Relentless focus on continuous, data-driven improvement

Skills Required

  • Proven track record of managing key pre-sales and/or post-sales processes
  • Deep understanding of key customer success and customer retention SaaS metrics
  • Experience building and leading successful teams at a SaaS company
  • Strong empathy for customers and passion for revenue processes
  • Strong executive presence and ability to influence customer leadership
  • Experience working with cross functional teams to achieve company objectives
  • Experience working with Salesforce, Hubspot, and other customer analytics software
  • Relentless focus on continuous, data-driven improvement
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The Company
New York, New York
46 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Lightyear (https://lightyear.ai) is the only digital workflow and system of record platform that unlocks efficiency across the full lifecycle for enterprise telecom services, revolutionizing the telecom experience to drive material time and cost savings. Lightyear's Procurement platform automates RFP creation, quoting, install management, and more for internet, WAN, voice, and colocation services, reducing time spent on procurement materially while network intelligence and pricing data ensures enterprises select the optimal solution at the lowest cost. Lightyear's Network Inventory Manager creates a digital system of record for enterprise networks, tracking 30+ data points per service (static IPs, contract details, account IDs) and automating lifecycle management workflows such as MACD ticketing and renewal re-shopping. Lightyear's Bill Consolidation software offers enterprises one consolidated bill for all telecom services, eliminating the headache of tracking invoices and handling audits while avoiding service disruptions.

Why Work With Us

We’ve cultivated a high-trust, autonomous work environment that empowers team members to drive their work forward as they see fit. We value team bonding and connections, and prioritize company time to connect both virtually and in-person events in a fully remote environment. Most importantly, we’re guided and grounded as a team by our core values.

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