Cloudflare is a company on a mission to help build a better Internet, operating one of the world’s largest networks. The Customer Experience Manager will lead the post-sale customer journey, focusing on customer engagement, retention, and maximizing upsells while collaborating closely with the Sales team.
Responsibilities:
- Manage customer engagement across the entire customer lifecycle, from onboarding through renewal
- Be a Trusted Advisor to your customers by helping them adopt the Cloudflare products and services to meet their needs and make them successful
- Work with your account teams to plan and execute long term Success Plans with our largest customers to facilitate retention and growth via product and new business unit expansion
- Maintain a deep understanding of our solutions and present to customers about the most relevant features/functionality for their specific business needs
- Own or be an active participant in several customer touch points including: Business Value Justification meetings, Business Reviews, and Renewal Meetings, with a track record of successful planning and execution of Executive Business Reviews
- Demonstrate how your customer engagement directly impacts revenue growth and adoption of Cloudflare solutions and services
- You are ultimately responsible for the retention and growth of your book of business. You will own and drive the renewal including maintaining and reporting an accurate weekly forecast
- Negotiate and execute renewal contracts in accordance with customer objectives
- You will be an expert in deal construction and pricing strategy. You will directly be designing renewals to create a win-win for customers and Cloudflare
- Analyze data and leverage tools to identify selling opportunities and business value
- Drive strong alignment with the Sales team, contributing to team forecasting, planning, and targets
- Develop and maintain long-term relationships with stakeholders in your account portfolio
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Support, Marketing and other teams to resolve customer business issues and work towards each customer’s stated goals
- Manage customer feedback and product needs by providing feature requests to internal partner teams
- Able to prioritize effectively to handle multiple deals at the same time
- Generative AI: Mastery of LLMs to rapidly draft renewal communications, synthesize quarterly review data, and prepare executive summaries
- Data Analysis: Proficiency in leveraging AI analytics tools to parse customer usage metrics and instantly highlight up-sell or cross-sell opportunities
- Workflow Automation: Ability to build automations to synchronize CRM data, update weekly forecasts, and trigger lifecycle alerts
- AI Problem Solving: The instinct to view AI as a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward
Requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Customer Success/Account Management role or Inside or Field sales
- Fluency in Russian
- Bachelor's degree and/or other professional qualifications
- Direct experience in commercial sales, negotiation, and deal closure
- Strong understanding of or willingness to learn about computer networking and 'how the internet works,' with network security a plus
- Manage and prioritize competing portfolio demands, aligning internal resources with the highest-impact commercial and retention goals
- Expertise in SaaS retention and sales process and excellent knowledge of value driven sales
- Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to creatively achieve resolutions
- 2+ years of industry experience, with experience in cloud security and/or performance industries preferred