Technical Enterprise Customer Success Manager, EMEA

SENTRY

SENTRY

IT, Customer Service, Sales & Business Development
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Oct 3, 2024

About Sentry

Bad software is everywhere, and we’re tired of it. Sentry is on a mission to help developers write better software faster, so we can get back to enjoying technology.

With more than $217 million in funding and 100,000+ organizations that believe we’re on to something, we're building performance and error monitoring tools that help companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian spend less time fixing bugs and more time building products. If you like to selfishly build things that make your digital life better, come help us build the next generation of software monitoring tools.

About the role

Our Customer Success Managers will be instrumental in bringing the value of our product to our customers around the world. You will help build a next-generation customer success motion that blends the best of proven approaches with rule-breaking ways.

As a Customer Success Manager, you will be directly responsible for the growth of Sentry, providing an exciting opportunity to drive and shape the future of customers within your allocated account portfolio. You will be responsible for supporting our existing customer relationships within your territory, while seeking opportunities to maximize our customer’s value from the Sentry platform.

In this role you will

  • Learn how to use Sentry, our best practices and cement yourself as a trusted/strategic advisor with customers and drive the continued value of our products and services by learning the Sentry product
  • Take ownership of your book of business/portfolio and maintain long-term account health and strong relationships
  • Work closely with the Renewals Manager for the Strategic portfolio, to ensure a successful renewal, identifying obstacles, and mitigate churn
  • Work as a "pod" with your Solutions Engineer and Account Executive to educate the customer on our product feature-set to aid the customer in achieving their objectives
  • Work cross-functionally with sales, solutions engineering, product, marketing, and our C-suite to execute Executive Business Reviews, build detailed Strategic Customer Success Plans, while establishing critical goals for expansion
  • Establish regular cadence with customers throughout their life cycle, garner customer champions to advocate for Sentry, use metrics to analyze and document customer's usage of Sentry's product
  • Advocate customer product needs, feedback, and issues cross-departmentally and program-manage customer expectations
  • Work closely with your dedicated Account Executive to craft innovative, successful, repeatable, strategies to expand your reach within your portfolio
  • Navigate complex Org mapping to identify and target engineering teams not using our product
  • Consistently meet and exceed ARR targets for Renewals and Expansions as a Pod
  • Perform internal quarterly Strategic Business Reviews to outline the health of your portfolio and present your Strategic Success Plans with our Executive team
  • Help customers make the best out of their investment with Sentry by driving product adoption, sharing best practices and implementing growth and optimization strategies for maximum value

You’ll love this job if you

  • Naturally possess a high level of empathy and pay close attention to the needs of customers
  • Are solutions-oriented, have a high standard for quality, and feel accomplished when customers are successful a proven track record of delivering very high customer satisfaction scores
  • Enjoy interfacing and working collaboratively with engineers
  • Are a clear and confident communicator -- comfortable both writing and speaking to executives at startups to the Fortune 500 and coordinating cross-functionally with internal teams and leadership
  • Are comfortable in a fast-paced environment that requires strong time-management skills and collaboration with our technical and business teams
  • Have ability and interest in learning the Sentry product
  • Have experience in managing & owning the full sale cycle from leading, expanding, and closing the deal
  • Enjoy conducting workshops to customers and discussing the pros & cons of implementing various technologies and business value
  • Have ability to drive continuous product value with a strategic and creative mindset
  • Thrive in an environment that requires constant collaboration with your team to achieve KPIs
  • Possess exceptional verbal, written, social, presentation, and interpersonal skills that show enthusiasm, energy, and poise
  • Have technical aptitude or willing to develop these skills for software development

Qualifications

  • At least 5 years of Customer Success experience, preferably with a B2B Software subscription for technical users
  • Strong understanding of modern SW development practices and tools (e.g. CI/CD, API’s, microservices, front-end vs. back-end development)
  • Revenue quota-carrying experience is a must
  • Experience with CRM tools like Salesforce and Gainsight
  • You have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and a dedication to ongoing learning
  • Plus: Experience developing code or writing scripts

The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is €78,000 to €105,000. A successful candidate’s actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including, without limitation, the candidate’s work location, education, work and other relevant experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry’s employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate’s position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Company’s benefit plans/programs.

Equal Opportunity at Sentry

Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.

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