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Position Title: Customer Success Manager
Location: Virtual, United States
Employment Type: Full-Time
Onsite, Remote/Flexible, or Hybrid: Remote
Department: Customer Success
Hiring Manager: Director, Customer Success
Travel: Minimal (Up to 5%)
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, 401(K), life insurance, parental leave, and mental health resources all beginning on first day of employment. See Benefits section below for more details.
COMPANY SUMMARY:
Here at Aprimo, our mission is to empower the marketing organizations of today to build the brands of tomorrow. Aprimo is a pioneer of the marketing resource and digital asset management space, and we deliver an innovative, industry-leading SaaS solution that changes the way companies like AT&T, National Park Foundation, Laborie, and Bank of America work, create, collaborate, and learn in order to deliver exceptional brand experiences at scale.
Aprimo helps enterprises unleash the power of their content by providing a marketing automation software and digital asset management software that manages the behind-the-scenes activities involved in marketing. Our product allows companies to manage content planning, creation and distribution all in one place, store content and media in a shared repository, and receive in-depth insights into how content performs.
Founded in 1998, Aprimo has five offices internationally, including Chicago headquarters, and offers a flexible work-from-home/remote-work policy.
Named a Leader in Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Marketing Resource Management by Forrester and winner of the 2021 Tech Cares Award for our work with Aprimo HELPS, we build on the power of our people to make an impact both in our industry and in our communities.
POSITION SUMMARY:
As a Customer Success Manager (CSM) at our SaaS company, you will play a vital role in ensuring our customers succeed and derive maximum value from our product. You will guide customers through their entire journey, from onboarding to adoption and value realization phases. By understanding their needs, you will act as a trusted advisor, ensuring they fully leverage our platform's capabilities to meet their marketing objectives.
WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Develop an intimate understanding of your customers' businesses, conduct health checks
• Represent to our customers as a trusted advisor, advocate and marketing thought leader/subject-matter-expert, conduct regular executive business reviews
• Enlighten our customers with insights gleaned from their own data and industry trends
• Ensure customers get maximum value from Aprimo by leveraging full platform functionality
• Liaison between your customers and all the internal teams
• Handle customer concerns with confidence, putting them at ease
• Develop a network of champions within each account through education, coaching, and strong influencing skills
• Own the customer journey through various stages:
  • Onboarding Phase:
    • Work closely with the Onboarding Specialist and lead the onboarding process for new customers, ensuring our platform's smooth and efficient implementation into their marketing ecosystem.
    • Work closely with the Account Executive (AE) to ensure a seamless handoff from the sales process to post-sales onboarding.
  • Adoption Phase:
    • Monitor and analyze customer usage patterns and behavior to identify increased adoption and engagement opportunities with our product.
    • Proactively provide guidance and support to customers to drive adoption and help them integrate our solution into their marketing strategies.
  • Value Realization Phase:
    • Collaborate with customers to understand their business goals and provide strategic insights to help them achieve measurable results using our product.
    • Conduct regular business reviews with key stakeholders, highlighting the value and ROI delivered by our solution.
• Leverage AI tools in day-to-day work including account research, call prep, renewal analysis, and customer communications to operate with greater speed and precision across your portfolio
• Deliver Premier Success engagements, partnering with customers to scope, plan, and execute high-value advisory sessions that drive measurable adoption and ROI outcomes
• Additional responsibilities and duties as required

• The Essentials
  • Four-year degree required.
  • Minimum of 4 years' experience demonstrable experience in a CSM role in a B2B SaaS Company.
  • Solid understanding of marketing technology and SaaS products.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with customers.
  • Proven experience working with US based customers is highly desired.
  • Analytical mindset to interpret data and provide actionable insights.
  • Proven ability to foster internal/external relationships, overcome objections and motivate clients.
• Additional Successful Qualities
  • Willingness to be on Camera.
  • Excellent organization, planning and project management skills.
  • Ability to schedule, manage and liaise daily touchpoints with Customer and Internal resources on a US/EMEA work schedule
  • Must be an independent self-starter possessing excellent time management skills and be able to manage multiple clients simultaneously
  • Ability to operate with minimal guidance; must be able to exercise sound judgment and decision making in challenging situations
  • Prioritize multiple responsibilities and deliver on commitments; must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • Must be an expert at developing and maintaining positive and productive relationships with clients; impeccable communication skills and ability to understand clients' needs is imperative
  • Able to build collaborative relationships with supervisors and peers; able to delegate responsibilities with ease; able to provide constructive feedback and praise; able to understand and educate others

• Aprimo offers a forward-thinking, progressive and employee-first culture that is based in both collaboration and flexibility with team members who are friendly, intelligent and enthusiastic people that are committed to the product and mission here at Aprimo.
  • With 5 offices worldwide and teams spread throughout the US, EMEA and Philippines, our multicultural teams work cross-departmentally and across continents and cultures towards a shared goal.
  • We offer a diverse environment that promotes DEI efforts, values multiple perspectives and fresh thinking and which includes Aprimo HELPS, an employee resource group (ERG) that is dedicated to giving back to our local communities
• Through its relaxed environment, Aprimo embodies a more casual "Silicon Valley" atmosphere.
  • We have a casual dress code that allows employees to express themselves as individuals and which fosters a creative and free-thinking approach to problem solving and business solutions. And it also allows us to wear hoodies and shorts during internal meetings.
• Unlimited PTO, flexible work schedules and all positions allowing for either entirely remote or hybrid working arrangements create a deeply rewarding work-life balance.
  • Our unlimited PTO encourages employees to take time off to un-plug, rest, and recharge.
  • With flexible work schedules, employees can attend to personal matters, such as stepping away to pick up their children from school or to get a much-needed haircut.
  • In a recent internal survey, 89% of staff cited work-life balance as being one of the most rewarding aspects of working at Aprimo!
• Part of the key to our success is that team members are not only successful at collaboration and open communication, but that they are also given a great deal of autonomy and freedom in their own individual roles.
  • Our culture is not a micro-managing environment - rather, employees are encouraged to be self-starters, to voice new ideas, and to exercise ownership in their individual roles.
  • As such, individual team members can leave a lasting impact and footprint within the organization - in fact, our average employee tenure is 7.7 years.
• Aprimo employs a "choose your own adventure" approach to career advancement.
  • Staff members are not siloed into roles and for many of our teams there is no set ladder that one needs to climb to achieve growth and promotion.
  • Rather, we emphasize an organic approach to career development in which employees can and do frequently transition into newly created roles within their own teams or transition into other departments based on their interests in exploring new skills and responsibilities.
  • For additional learning and development, we recently rolled out Udemy, which is an online learning platform that employees have access to and which features over 200,000 courses on a wide variety of business topics.
• Ranked #1 in AI Metadata & Search by Forrester, Aprimo sits on the cutting-edge of technology and is paving new paths forward by incorporating AI (artificial intelligence) into our product offerings.
  • We offer generative AI in a secure environment built for brand safety and governance. Our AI-powered content operations platform, with industry leading digital asset management (DAM) software at its core, helps to optimize the creative process and improve the user experience with better search, recommendations, categorization and summarization.
  • Our AI empowers marketing teams to automate tasks, analyze data, and personalize content, ensuring scalability without sacrificing productivity.
  • AI automatically identifies asset characteristics and transforms them into words a human would search for. Translation, image alterations, personalization, and more are all streamlined by AI.
  • With our platform, marketers can efficiently produce a larger volume of content, engage customers on a personalized level, curate relevant materials, and make data-driven decisions to drive their content strategies forward.
  • Our AI offers up to 72% increase in discoverability and productivity, up to 61% reduction in production time, and up to 66% faster time to market.

• Target Compensation: Annual base salary target of $105,000 to $140,000 depending on job related knowledge, skills, and level of experience. This is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, or other law.
• Bonus program that pays out quarterly
• Competitive benefits coverage that begins on the first day of employment, and includes:
  • Medical benefits with low premiums and choice of two programs (PPO or High Deductible)
  • Dental benefits with choice of two programs (PPO or HMO)
  • Vision benefits program
  • Health savings account (HSA)
  • Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for medical care, dependent care, and commuter/transit benefits
  • 401(K) savings plan that matches the first 4% of compensation at 100%, and the next 2% at 50%
  • Basic life insurance covered at 100% and twice the base salary, with additional voluntary/optional coverage available
  • Disability insurance covered at 100% for 10 weeks for short term disability and covered at 50% for long term disability
  • For both biological and adoptive parents, maternity leave is paid at 100% for up to twelve weeks and paternity leave is paid at 100% for six weeks
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides employees with mental health resources and therapy consulting

• Must be able to remain in stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods and performing sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing
• Must be able to move about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another
• Must be able to perform light physical work that includes lifting or moving objects up to 20 lbs. or medium work that includes moving objects up to 50 pounds on occasion
• Must be able to communicate with others to exchange information, including conveying detailed or important spoken instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly
• Must possess the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication at normal speaking levels
• Must be able to repeat motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers (i.e., repeated typing, etc.)
• The worker is required to have close visual awareness to perform an activity and to assess the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned, such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
• This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, etc.