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Sales - Customer Success Professional (P2)
Sales - Customer Success

Sales - Customer Success Professional (P2)

SCS.GEN.P2

P2P2 — Developing Professionalmedium0.70draftglobalv1

Focuses on ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes with the company’s product or service.

Level
P2 · P2 — Developing Professional · 1–3 yrs
Function · Focus
Sales - Customer Success · General
Market pay (median)
Pay basis
model pending

Focuses on ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes with the company’s product or service.

The story of this role

Who does this work

A Customer Success Manager who wants to ensure customers achieve their desired outcomes with the company’s product, fostering lasting relationships and driving satisfaction.

The problem this role solves

  • The external problem: Customers feel disconnected or do not fully understand how to maximize the value of the product.
  • The internal problem: The Customer Success Manager struggles with meeting diverse customer needs and ensuring consistent engagement.
  • Why it matters: Every customer deserves to realize the full potential of the solutions they invest in; their success is our success.

The plan

  1. Establish clear communication channels with customers to understand their needs and goals.
  2. Conduct regular check-ins to assess customer satisfaction and identify roadblocks.
  3. Provide tailored training sessions to explain product features and best practices.
  4. Monitor usage metrics to proactively address potential issues.
  5. Facilitate collaboration between customers and product teams to enhance service offerings.

What's at stake

Customers feel unsupported, leading to dissatisfaction and potential churn. Missed opportunities for account growth due to a lack of engagement or understanding of customer needs.

Success looks like

Customers achieve their goals, resulting in increased satisfaction and loyalty. Growth in customer accounts through upselling and cross-selling opportunities.

Summary

Focuses on ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes with the company’s product or service.

Level — P2 — Developing Professional

Early-career professional; developing skills, handles routine tasks with some independence

Scope
Defined deliverables / small features
Autonomy
General supervision; reviewed at milestones
Complexity
Some non-routine problems; applies established patterns
Impact
Own and immediate-team deliverables
Decision rights
Routine technical choices within guidance
Leadership
May guide interns
Typical experience
1–3 yrs

Core outputs

No core outputs recorded yet.

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Responsibilities10

  • Welcome and orient new customerscommonlevel
  • Serve as the primary contact for customer inquiries and supportcommonlevel
  • Continuously work to demonstrate and increase the value the customer gets from the productcommonlevel
  • Assist customers in navigating product featurescommonlevel
  • Gather customer feedback to inform product improvementscommonlevel
  • Facilitate customer training sessionscommonlevel
  • Develop customer success plans tailored to individual needscommonlevel
  • Identify opportunities for upselling and cross-sellingcommonlevel
  • Maintain accurate records of customer interactionscommonlevel
  • Collaborate with sales and product teams to enhance customer experiencecommonlevel

Tasks3

  • Welcome and orient new customerscommonlevel
  • Serve as primary contact for inquiriescommonlevel
  • Demonstrate product valuecommonlevel

Skills8

  • Customer engagementcommonlevel
  • Communicationcommonlevel
  • Problem-solvingcommonlevel
  • Product demonstrationcommonlevel
  • Feedback collectioncommonlevel
  • Trainingcommonlevel
  • Upsellingcommonlevel
  • CRM proficiencycommonlevel

Knowledge8

  • Customer success methodologiescommonlevel
  • Product features and benefitscommonlevel
  • Customer feedback mechanismscommonlevel
  • Training techniquescommonlevel
  • Sales processescommonlevel
  • Customer relationship managementcommonlevel
  • Data analyticscommonlevel
  • Project management principlescommonlevel

competency8

  • Excellent communicationcommonlevel
  • Problem-solving Orientationcommonlevel
  • Customer-centric mindsetcommonlevel
  • Relationship buildingcommonlevel
  • Product knowledgecommonlevel
  • Feedback analysiscommonlevel
  • Training facilitationcommonlevel
  • Sales collaborationcommonlevel

qualification4

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, IT, or a related fieldcommonlevel
  • 2–5 years of experience in a customer-facing rolecommonlevel
  • Customer Success certification programs preferredcommonlevel
  • Certifications in data analytics or project managementcommonlevel
Title aliasesshow ▾
AliasTypeConfidenceApproved
Sales - Customer Success IIcommonmedium0.70
Sales - Customer Success 2commonmedium0.66
Sales - Customer Success Professional (P2)commonmedium0.60
Individual Contributorcommonmedium0.50
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