Introduction
We are looking for a Customer Success Manager to work closely with innovative brands in Japan and help them maximize the value of their investment in a leading customer engagement and marketing technology platform.
What You'll Do
- Own customer renewals, retention, and net retention targets for your accounts.
- Act as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for customers.
- Partner closely with Account Executives to deliver an excellent customer experience and maintain commercial alignment.
- Develop shared Success Plans with customers and provide strategic and technical guidance to help them achieve their business objectives.
- Drive product adoption by identifying opportunities to increase usage of existing and new features.
- Build strong customer relationships and develop customer advocacy.
- Proactively analyze product usage to identify account risks, opportunities, and areas for growth.
- Maintain regular communication with customers through check-ins, events, business reviews, and ad-hoc meetings.
- Gather and communicate customer feedback to internal teams to help improve the product and customer experience.
- Educate customers on available features and identify opportunities for additional solutions and upsell.
- Coordinate with internal teams such as Technical Support, Industry Solutions, and other specialist functions to ensure customers receive the appropriate support.
- Work closely with onboarding teams to ensure a smooth transition from implementation to ongoing customer success.
Who You Are
- Passionate about customer success and helping customers achieve their business objectives.
- Proven experience in Customer Success or a related client-facing role.
- Excellent Japanese communication skills, both written and verbal, with business-level English.
- Strong listening, communication, and follow-up skills, with the ability to understand and address strategic customer challenges.
- Comfortable working with companies of different sizes and helping them improve their customer experience.
- A strong team player who builds effective relationships with both customers and internal stakeholders.
- Highly curious and eager to continuously learn about technology, customers, and business challenges.
- Experienced in managing complex accounts or projects involving sophisticated clients, multiple stakeholders, and competing priorities.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Domain knowledge in two or more of the following areas:
- SaaS
- Mobile
- APIs
- Marketing Automation
- Direct Marketing
- Marketing Analytics
- Programming / HTML
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2–5 years of relevant experience in Customer Success, Account Management, SaaS, Marketing Technology, or a related field.