Strategic Customer Success Account Manager

DocuSign

DocuSign

Customer Service, Sales & Business Development
Paris, France · France
Posted on Oct 11, 2024

Strategic Customer Success Account Manager

ID 2024-25521
Location
FR-Paris-Paris
Category
Customer Success & Consulting
Position Type
Regular

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

The Docusign Strategic Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) is a high-impact, multi-faceted position, responsible for owning a portfolio of strategic accounts and renewals in an assigned territory. The Strategic CSAM serves as a customer adoption advisor, driving a return on our customers’ investment in DocuSign and unlocking further digitalization. Within their defined territory, the Strategic CSAM is responsible for developing and driving effective customer success and value strategies, identifying growth opportunities, negotiating favorable renewal terms, and providing insights to the business and customers that improve future outcomes. The Strategic CSAM is a critical member of the Account team, working in collaboration with our Sales Team (Account Executives). The ideal Strategic CSAM candidate will drive accountability with themselves and their business partners, thriving in a fast-paced environment.

This position is an individual contributor role, reporting to the Manager, Customer Success Account Management.


Responsibility

  • Prevent risk and drive growth in our top customers through early engagement, driving value, engaging with key collaborators and mapping our customers to our executives as measured by renewal outcomes

  • Achieve financial and strategic revenue, bookings and billings targets

  • Maintain and update accurate rolling forecasts of your territory and
    communicate any renewal risk to internal resources in order to develop
    resolution strategies, up to and including Executive Engagement

  • Own and implement win/win negotiation strategies for Docusign’s strategic
    renewals while protecting and enhancing customer trust

  • Conduct regular business reviews with our customers to ensure that they are adopted and deriving value from our product, and we are aligned with our customers primary objectives

  • Accountable for the full adoption strategy, using key collaborators across the Docusign ecosystem to deliver holistic paths for success

  • Serve as the primary point of contact and facilitation on behalf of our
    customers for any escalation concerns

  • Collaborate with internal resources such as, but not limited to, Sales, Customer Success, Pricing, Legal, Revenue Operations and Product Management to develop growth and risk mitigation strategies for key accounts

  • Discuss and advise on core functionality and features beyond the fundamentals, and is able to effectively communicate the art of what is
    possible

  • Act as a Docusign expert for our customers, identifying process gaps and coordinating with Docusign resources to ensure successful adoption and deployment

  • Improve account growth by taking a major role within the account team,
    helping to identify incremental growth opportunities within the account, and
    involving the appropriate internal resources where applicable

  • Evaluate your portfolio and effectively analyze usage, health, data, and
    behavioral patterns to prioritize time to render the most favorable outcomes
    for the customer and Docusign

  • Travel occasionally to build customer relationships and improve overall
    partnership (up to 10%)

  • Follow and adhere to standard methodologies for all internal processes including, opportunity management, data quality and accuracy, CRM hygiene, quotes and forecasting

Job Designation

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

  • Significant of experience within Sales, Renewal Management, Account
    Management and/or Customer Success - ideally within SaaS offerings
  • Contract negotiation skills with experience driving high value contracts to completion on-time
  • Experience with quota-carrying roles and history of meeting key
    performance indicators
  • Experience with deal negotiation cycles with a successful track record
  • BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred

  • Experience with leading an adoption strategy across organizations, serving as a change agent for the customer
  • Ability to navigate internally and with the customer in a trusted advisor, consultative approach and establish credibility quickly with senior level executives across the organization
  • Ability to demonstrate a strategic approach to enable persuasive value conversations with customers at an executive level
  • Ability to interact with and influence all levels from individual contributors to executives
  • Ability to react and adapt to potential rapid shifts in priorities
  • Strong level of urgency, organization and prioritization skills
  • Salesforce experience
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to conduct value analysis around ROI

Life at DocuSign

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at [email protected].

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at [email protected] for assistance.

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