Customer Success Manager, Smartling

$85-105k

Mid level
Remote in US

More information about location

Smartling

Language translation & content localization platform

Open for applications

Smartling

Language translation & content localization platform

201-500 employees

B2BLanguagesContentCommunicationSaaS

Open for applications

$85-105k

Mid level
Remote in US

More information about location

201-500 employees

B2BLanguagesContentCommunicationSaaS

Company mission

Smartling's mission is to move the world with words.

Role

Who you are

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in a B2B customer success/client services/account management role
  • Ability to manage multiple customer relationships with many internal and external stakeholders, project manage, set priorities and stay organized
  • Experience managing contract renewals and up-sells
  • Experience working in a role that required you to stay calm in the face of technical and/or customer challenges
  • Proven ability to network and manage relationships across many different functions within a global customer organization
  • An aptitude for digesting and effectively communicating technical concepts across audiences of varying technical ability
  • Business acumen and experience leading and preparing customer presentations/meetings including working with and manipulating data for value driven presentations
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
  • A home office setup conducive for working remotely, and ability to work effectively as a remote team member*

Desirable

  • Experience with translation, localization, and internationalization processes
  • Knowledge of the SaaS business model and experience supporting SaaS solutions for midmarket and enterprise business customers
  • An understanding of modern software development processes like continuous delivery

What the job involves

  • As a Customer Success Manager at Smartling, your goal will be to ensure positive customer health and retention
  • You will be responsible for ensuring that your customers rapidly adopt and deeply leverage the Smartling solution, and meet their business goals while doing so, from on-boarding and throughout the customer lifecycle
  • You will partner closely with other Smartling teams such as Sales, Marketing, Professional Services, and Product to ensure customers achieve their objectives and realize significant value from using our platform
  • We are a fast-moving company looking for energetic candidates to grow and develop alongside us
  • On-boarding:
  • Take a leading role in ensuring that customers are successfully onboarded to Smartling in accordance with their success goals
  • Provide training and education throughout the onboarding process, and work closely with team members to ensure project timelines are met
  • Customer Communication and Education:
  • Develop communication cadence with your customers on product and industry updates that impact your customers’ global content activities and objectives
  • Assess customer requirements, resolving problems, anticipating future needs, and generally serving as the customer’s voice within Smartling
  • Oversee the customer’s implementation of localization best practices to ensure you help the customer drive incremental value and return investment
  • Customer Retention and Growth:
  • Develop and implement an effective account planning strategy for your book of business to ensure retention, product adoption and growth through collaboration with other team members
  • Establish trusted advisor relationships with all major stakeholders within your assigned book of business, such that all activities are closely aligned with the customer’s business strategy, allowing the full potential of their Smartling solution to be realized
  • Manage the renewal process for a portion of your book of business, and have a clear focus helping your customer's expand their customer's use cases with Smartling
  • Demonstrating Value:
  • Lead business review meetings to continuously articulate the value of Smarting and customer’s performance against goals, to encourage adoption and expansion across the customer’s organization
  • Facilitate business process optimization workshops and enjoy participation in Smartling events for customer marketing activities

Our take

Smartling leverages a network of professional translators and AI translation software to enable companies to connect locally with audiences anywhere, through any channel. Over the last few years, the company has emerged as a real market leader.

The roll call of customers is proof of the startup's success, with the likes of Shopify, Lyft, Tinder, Samsung, H&M, Mastercard, and plenty of others all taking advantage of its platform.

The appeal is obvious: since a company’s online presence is unlimited by geography, it shouldn’t be limited by language. The advantage of an offering like Smartling is that it doesn’t just loosely translate meaning like a browser would, but can also translate impact. As fast growth companies scale internationally and bring their brand message to new markets, this kind of service can prove crucial.

Smartling is showing no signs of slowing down its growth any time soon, with more than $220 million in funding raised. Its 2021 round of funding is being used to increase its headcount, and therefore capacity, while continuing to refine and innovate its product.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Dec 2021

$160m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

May 2014

$25m

SERIES D

Total funding: $227.2m

Company benefits

  • Competitive Salary & Equity
  • Flexible vacation & PTO
  • Health Benefits
  • Generous Maternity/Paternity Leave
  • 401k Retirement Planning
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Remote Hires
  • Employee Referral Bonus

Company values

  • Take Care of Our People
  • Good Today, Perfect Tomorrow
  • Constraint Breeds Creativity
  • Debate, Then Commit
  • Be Accountable

Company HQ

Garment District, New York, NY

Leadership

Jack Welde

(President)

Began career as a Pilot / Squadron Deputy Director of Operations in the US Air Force. Former SVP of Product at eMusic, former COO/CTO of SheSpeaks, and former COO at RunTime Technologies. Founded and was CEO of Smartling until 2019, before becoming President.

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