Senior Customer Success Manager - EMEA

About the Job: The Customer Success Manager reports directly into the regional CS leader and represents LaunchDarkly as the direct point-of-contact with our customers post-sales. They are LaunchDarkly subject-matter experts guiding our new and expanding customers towards implementation and adoption and helping them achieve their desired use-cases and realize value. The best candidate for this role will be passionate about customer success with a keen interest in software development and DevOps, balanced with a strong sales acumen. In LaunchDarkly GTM, we are all customer-obsessed and striving for massive year over year growth. Responsibilities: • Customer Onboarding: You will shepherd in new customers from the sales handoff through successful activation in the product. This includes building out success plans to get customers up to speed in the platform, project management through onboarding, helping customers leverage the most appropriate enablement paths and assessing customer’s adoption on an ongoing basis. • Risk Identification and Mitigation: You’ll work to proactively identify and diagnose risk inhibiting adoption or that may cause churn and contraction. You’ll own building a risk mitigation strategy and coordinating across the account team to effectively steer the customer to success. • Technical Guidance: You’ll maintain a deep level of LaunchDarkly product knowledge and be expected to provide customers with direction on implementation and adoption best practices. • Prescriptively Sell: You maintain a pulse on how our customers are tracking against their key goals and outcomes identifying opportunities for customers to purchase additional products, services and adopt new features needed for them to maximize the value of our solution. • Trusted Advisor: You understand your customers like no other and have built enough trust to act as an extension of their team. You provide prescriptive guidance to customers to help them get the most out of their LaunchDarkly purchase. • Build Champions & Executive Relationships: You are an expert champion builder. You consistently work to identify & support key advocates within your customers’ organization who actively promote the value of LaunchDarkly. In partnership with your Champion, you’re able to leverage success metrics & value driven insights to gain sponsorship at an Executive level. • Renewal and Expansion focused: You are comfortable owning a number and forecasting on a weekly basis. You will work directly with customers, sales and deal desk to execute renewal agreements on time and to identify expansion opportunities within your accounts About You: • Entrepreneurial and Self-Motivated: You are driven and proactive, taking ownership of your role and responsibilities. You operate with a high level of urgency at all times. You thrive in a fast paced, start-up environment. • Passion for Learning and Growth: You are enthusiastic about continuous learning and personal development at LaunchDarkly. You view feedback as a necessity for growth so consistently seek it out and give it. • Intellectual Curiosity: You have a hunger for knowledge and are naturally a question-asker. • Excellent Communication: Your written and spoken communication skills are outstanding. • Organized & Autonomous: You are capable of efficiently managing your workload and have a process for time management. You do not require a lot of external direction to prioritize your work. • Highly Adaptable: You excel in a fast-paced and dynamic organizational setting. • Strong Sales Acumen: You have a high level of sales acumen, strong negotiation skills and are eager to own a number. This is a commercially focused CS organization. • Natural Problem Solver: You have strong critical thinking skills and enjoy