Customer Success engages with customers of all types to understand and accelerate the realization of their business outcomes through the successful adoption of VMWare software and services. We create customers for life by cultivating key relationships through continuous engagement, focusing on delivering positive business outcomes and ensuring a seamless customer experience.

VMware is looking for a Director to build/lead our Customer Success hyperscaler organizationand drive best in class levels of adoption and value realization for customers.The role will incubate and manage theCustomer Success Manager Hyperscaler team and processes.The ideal leader will have senior leadership experience leading Customer Success in a Subscription, Cloud and SaaS environment.We are looking for someone who has shown evidence of strategic vision with execution results, critical thinking, partnership in a matrix environment and a show of decisiveness to drive to business results and customer outcomes.

You Will:

• Communicate the value proposition for the VMC Hyperscaler platforms and understand how it can be applied to address specific customer needs across geographies and vertical markets.
• Be responsible for delivering high net revenue retention, low gross revenue and customer logo churn, high software adoption and high customer satisfaction/net promoter scores for our SaaS platform.
• Manage the customer experience - from sales handoff through post-sales on-boarding and adoption.
• Be a customer advocate to ensure the right priority and technical resources are being applied to maximize customer success activities, including working closely with the global customer support and product management teams.
• Partner closely with the sales organization to drive new sales, renew contracts, minimize customer churn, and maximize revenue expansion.
• Work closely with partners to enable their success, as well as explore additional opportunities for joint value creation betweenVMC, partners, and customers.
• Develop strategic programs and practices to influence future revenue potential through higher product adoption and customer satisfaction during the onboarding process.
• Research, develop and apply best practices to improve and keep customer engagement fresh.
• Define and implement necessary systems and tools to provide key business information and metrics to highlight the team's performance and effectiveness.

You Have:

• Minimum of 10 years' experience both as an individual contributor and a leader in customer-facing organizations in a Subscription/SaaS software company.
• 5+ years of Director Level leadership experience, including transformative leadership
• Experience with modern customer success processes, strategies, and tools. Gainsight experience preferred.
• Experience with the sales and delivery of paid service offerings, and revenue management.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit/build/retain teams and implement new business process.
• Proven track record of success in a fast growing and scaling business.
• Ability to manage influence through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building
• Ideally combined background of post-sale and sales experience
• Strong empathy for customers
• Deep understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue business models
• Comfort level working in a metric-driven environment, including reporting on and improving business performance against a set of monthly KPIs and metrics.
• Excellent collaboration and relationship building skills, including with internal and external stakeholders at Sr. levels of management
• Bachelor's Degree required.

For positions located in Colorado: This position has a minimum base salary/OTE* which starts at $187,000. Bonus, commission, and/or equity may be eligible for this position. Additional benefits for this position can be found athttps://benefits.vmware.com/.*Note: Disclosure of Colorado pay and benefits required per sb19-968

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Category : Sales
Subcategory: Services Sales
Experience: Business Leadership
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2021-08-31
VMware's Customer Experience and Success team is devoted to helping our customers realize outcomes everywhere - whether they are engaging with our Customer Success, Professional Services, Global Support, or Learning teams. We are driven by our service code of customer advocacy, trusted guidance, and cross-functional team work. The Customer Success team is laser-focused on the health of our customers and ensuring they are realizing the most value from their VMware investments. If you have a passion for making your customers successful, join a team who is dedicated to helping customers achieve their business outcomes in the fastest time possible.

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