Director of Success Services Offerings
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Job Summary:
The Director of Success Services is a strategic leader responsible for defining, developing, and delivering our innovative paid success plan offerings, including adoption, support, and educational services. With a customer-centric approach, your role will be to successfully drive our customers' adoption of these services, achieving bookings, revenue, retention, and customer satisfaction goals. Given the strategic nature of this role, you will need to collaborate across Sales, Marketing, Product, Customer Success, Support, Education, Finance, IT, and Operations to drive the program's success. With a strategic vision, you will serve as the champion and advocate internally and with customers and partners.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership: Develop and articulate a clear vision for paid success plan offerings, ensuring alignment with company goals and customer needs.
Product and Service Development: Lead the design, deployment, and iterations of new and existing service offerings, ensuring they deliver to growth, adoption, financial, and customer needs.
Go-to-Market: Collaborate with functional teams to develop and iterate value proposition and messaging, marketing plans, collateral, and sales enablement.
Cross-functional Collaboration and Influence: Work across functions to drive initiatives and priorities to deploy and scale the offers globally. A strong interlock with Sales and Sales leadership will be critical.
Market Research: Conduct thorough analysis to understand customer needs, industry trends, competitor offerings, and service strategies.
Customer Experience: Develop and maintain detailed customer journey maps and manage feedback loops to enhance service offerings and customer touchpoints.
Performance Management: Define and monitor KPIs for service offerings, evaluating success and identifying and leading improvements based on internal, customer, and partner feedback.
Team Leadership: Guide and support a diverse team, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Communication: Regularly report service offerings' progress and outcomes to senior leadership and stakeholders.
Commercial Management: Oversee the services product portfolio, manage commercial collateral, and ensure alignment with commercial targets.
Qualifications:
Has a bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field.
Proven experience successfully driving large cross-functional projects in fast-paced technology SaaS companies.
Experience designing and developing product and/or service offers, including all aspects of offer development, launch, and global scaling.
Has developed offers supporting technical solutions. Experience with DevOps, software development, cloud technologies, agile methodologies, and/or development tools is a plus.
Has domain experience with professional services, customer success management, education, and support.
Brings a strong balance of strategy and “get it done” execution skills. High organizational skills and ability to manage multiple initiatives and deadlines.
Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with internal team members, senior leadership, customers, and partners.
Known for intellectual curiosity and having a perspective while remaining highly collaborative
Aligned to Gitlab’s CREDIT values.
How GitLab will support you
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Unlimited PTO (paid time off)
Home office support
Hiring process
Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process.
Selected candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with the VP of Global CSMs
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with our Sr. Director of CS Strategy & Operations
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with our VP of Global Support Engineering
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with our Sr. Director of Education Services
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with a leader from People Business Partner team
For our final stage, candidates will be asked to present (we'll share a prompt) to our VP of Global CSMs and 1-2 of our previous interviewers
Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
About the job
Director of Success Services Offerings
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Customer Success jobs
Job Summary:
The Director of Success Services is a strategic leader responsible for defining, developing, and delivering our innovative paid success plan offerings, including adoption, support, and educational services. With a customer-centric approach, your role will be to successfully drive our customers' adoption of these services, achieving bookings, revenue, retention, and customer satisfaction goals. Given the strategic nature of this role, you will need to collaborate across Sales, Marketing, Product, Customer Success, Support, Education, Finance, IT, and Operations to drive the program's success. With a strategic vision, you will serve as the champion and advocate internally and with customers and partners.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership: Develop and articulate a clear vision for paid success plan offerings, ensuring alignment with company goals and customer needs.
Product and Service Development: Lead the design, deployment, and iterations of new and existing service offerings, ensuring they deliver to growth, adoption, financial, and customer needs.
Go-to-Market: Collaborate with functional teams to develop and iterate value proposition and messaging, marketing plans, collateral, and sales enablement.
Cross-functional Collaboration and Influence: Work across functions to drive initiatives and priorities to deploy and scale the offers globally. A strong interlock with Sales and Sales leadership will be critical.
Market Research: Conduct thorough analysis to understand customer needs, industry trends, competitor offerings, and service strategies.
Customer Experience: Develop and maintain detailed customer journey maps and manage feedback loops to enhance service offerings and customer touchpoints.
Performance Management: Define and monitor KPIs for service offerings, evaluating success and identifying and leading improvements based on internal, customer, and partner feedback.
Team Leadership: Guide and support a diverse team, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Communication: Regularly report service offerings' progress and outcomes to senior leadership and stakeholders.
Commercial Management: Oversee the services product portfolio, manage commercial collateral, and ensure alignment with commercial targets.
Qualifications:
Has a bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field.
Proven experience successfully driving large cross-functional projects in fast-paced technology SaaS companies.
Experience designing and developing product and/or service offers, including all aspects of offer development, launch, and global scaling.
Has developed offers supporting technical solutions. Experience with DevOps, software development, cloud technologies, agile methodologies, and/or development tools is a plus.
Has domain experience with professional services, customer success management, education, and support.
Brings a strong balance of strategy and “get it done” execution skills. High organizational skills and ability to manage multiple initiatives and deadlines.
Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with internal team members, senior leadership, customers, and partners.
Known for intellectual curiosity and having a perspective while remaining highly collaborative
Aligned to Gitlab’s CREDIT values.
How GitLab will support you
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Unlimited PTO (paid time off)
Home office support
Hiring process
Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process.
Selected candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with the VP of Global CSMs
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with our Sr. Director of CS Strategy & Operations
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with our VP of Global Support Engineering
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with our Sr. Director of Education Services
Next, candidates will be invited to schedule an interview with a leader from People Business Partner team
For our final stage, candidates will be asked to present (we'll share a prompt) to our VP of Global CSMs and 1-2 of our previous interviewers
Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.