Manager, Customer Success Managers, EMEA

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The Customer Success Management (CSM) team focuses on the themes of align, enable, and expand. We align with customers’ desired business outcomes, enable them on their existing use cases, and work with them to expand into additional use cases, ensuring ongoing and ever-improving customer return-on-investment.

Additionally, our team serves as liaisons between the customer and the GitLab ecosystem, streamlining collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Professional Services, and others. CSM handbook.

What you'll do

Mentor and enable the team to exceed company growth and retention forecasts

Work with the Customer Success Director to help establish and manage goals and responsibilities for CSMs

Manage a team of highly motivated, customer-focused CSMs to manage the overall health and care of accounts (e.g., onboarding customers, stage adoption, executive business reviews, and successful renewals)

Ensure the CSMs exceed GitLab expectations in core knowledge, communication, and execution

Challenge the team and yourself to learn and grow as trusted advisors to customers continually

Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead the team members to their optimum performance levels and career development, providing timely feedback and development assistance

Manage resource assignments and staffing levels, including recruitment as needed

Identify and implement improvements to the processes and tools used

Develop senior-level relationships with customers

Partner with other team leaders to ensure the customer is supported in times of escalation

Develop strong relationships with Engineering and Product to ensure cohesion and shared understanding of goals, initiatives

Oversee initiatives set forth in OKRs

Work together with the other managers to execute strategies and vision with the Director

Represent GitLab leadership and reflect our GitLab values in internal and external interactions

What you'll bring

Proven track record in software/technology sales, consulting or customer success

Proven experience leading teams, driving software adoption, and building and scaling customer success management practices

Experience with software development lifecycle processes and tools as well as agile and/or DevOps practices

Knowledgeable with cloud/container technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), application security (SAST, DAST) and/or cloud deployment models (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus

Proven ability to develop strategies, translate them into initiatives and track successful delivery

Demonstrated ability to lead managers and successfully manage global, distributed t