Customer Success Manager, AlphaSense
B2B, Presales
Salary not provided
Senior level
London
2 days a week in office
Market intelligence and search platform
Open for applications
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
B2BAnalyticsMarket researchBusiness Intelligence
Open for applications
Salary not provided
Senior level
London
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
B2BAnalyticsMarket researchBusiness Intelligence
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organize the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a team oriented, data-driven leader who can have an impact on the continued growth of this team
- You have a proven track record of successfully managing a team of at least 5 client-facing people (and being directly responsible for those individuals)
- Passionate about learning and always seeking the next challenge
- A systems thinker—you have a proven track record of turning processes that lack structure into effective, scalable systems
- You measure our success by the success of our customers. As an effective leader, you will instil these values in your team to ensure our customers are receiving an excellent customer experience & white glove service
- You are obsessed with adding value to your team through coaching and feedback
- You demonstrate equanimity in all situations
- You are a warm but demanding manager to your direct reports
- You are ambitious, with impeccable integrity and curiosity
- You have significant experience working directly with users and clients to solve complex problems
- Servant leadership is innate - you see leading people as a privilege and are committed to others’ success. You lead by example everyday
- Strong 360 communicator; able to parse nuanced data and draw actionable conclusions
- You appreciate that feedback is a gift and you feel comfortable giving and receiving 360 feedback
- 5+ years of work experience in sales or client success with a minimum of 2 years direct people management experience (where you managed a team of at least 5 client-facing people)
- High aptitude and willingness to learn. Because of our diverse client base, most of the technical knowledge required to succeed will be learned on the job
- Ability to distil and explain complex issues in simple terms
- Experience operationalising the customer journey and creating effective and scalable processes
- An intelligent, articulate, consultative and confident client facing professional
- Must have the personal motivation and ability to contribute to a dynamic and entrepreneurial team culture
- Superior ability to develop rapport with people, and to maintain relationships, combined with a positive and proactive personality
- Energetic and creative individual, possessing natural curiosity with the ability to learn quickly and adapt
- Outstanding oral, written and presentation skills
- Effective attention to detail, time management and task prioritisation, even when under pressure
- Ability and interest to work autonomously, and for a small fast-growing company. Someone can genuinely "make the role their own", so looking for highly motivated proactive individuals who make things happen, and want to play a large role in the company’s success
What the job involves
- Reports to: Director of Customer Success
- The Customer Success team is composed of our Product Specialist group, a team of highly trained product experts as well as our Account Managers, who provide strategic guidance to our robust book of business, spanning from Fortune 1000 businesses to some of the largest financial institutions in the world
- First and foremost, the Product Specialist team are value-added partners to our clients. We are extremely consultative in our approach and will do everything we can to solve client challenges through our product
- We spend our waking hours obsessing over our customers and making sure they have the right data at their fingertips to make the best decisions possible. We are responsible for retaining our customers, maximising usage of the product and partnering with the sales team to uncover opportunities to grow our business
- The Product Specialist role marries the technical knowledge of our solution with a deep understanding of either the Corporate or Financial Services verticals to ensure that users, across all of the segments and business units that we work with, are realising maximum value from the platform
- The team is heavily relied upon to contribute to both growth and retention initiatives by helping maximise prospect and customer health
- The team is segmented into two - pre and post sales. Our pre-sales team partners with Account Executives to help win user trials and bring in new revenue, while our post-sales team partners with Account Managers to retain existing clients and ensure they are effectively engaging with the platform and realising value
- Additionally, because of the extensive exposure that Product Specialists have with clients, they are also in a prime position to partner with our Product Management and Content teams to help determine future product developments that will resonate with the market, as well as owning the customer feedback loop
- The Product Specialist role can be both an excellent launching point and destination due to the several career opportunities it offers
- The Customer Success Manager focused on Pre-sales will be responsible for managing a team of Product Specialists who are responsible for :
- Being experts in the product as well as our persona-specific use cases
- Building custom searches and completing specific customizations to users’ accounts
- Demoing live on calls of all types with the aim of helping their AE partners convert trials
- Building effective relationships with cross-functional Account Executive (AE) partners, as well as the Product and Content teams
- As the Product Specialist team continues to grow and morph, we are adding additional roles and responsibilities
- The duties of the Customer Success Manager include:
- Directly leading a team of Pre-sales Product Specialists who are responsible for supporting AEs in closing trials by providing white glove and value-add client service
- Driving Successful Customer Outcomes and expanding revenue by helping build deeper relationships with our clients, and influencing future lifetime value through higher product adoption
- Aggregating feedback and pivoting pilot programs to allow for optimal renewal rates, revenue growth, and uncovering the key support PS can offer to our revenue organisation. As part of this, taking initiatives is key to continuously improving our organisation & updating internal processes
- Coaching and mentoring members of your team on development, call coaching, implementing best practices, and establishing accountability across the team.This includes adapting your managerial style to each direct report to effectively support and challenge them
- Providing transparency and insight of your team’s performance to the leadership team, which includes tracking and reporting day-to-day metrics
- Recruiting top talent for your growing team while maintaining a high bar of excellence
- Building impactful relationships with cross-functional leaders (Sales, Account Management, Sales Enablement, Product, Marketing, etc.) to ensure alignment and drive successful growth outcomes
- Diligently learn about our product and feed additional ideas to bridge the gap between feature roll-outs, the future roadmap, and user requests for platform updates
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain : financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it is now setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist
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Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Customer obsession - We measure ourselves against a simple yardstick: do our clients rave about us?
- Passion for product - Building a powerful yet simple and beautiful product is in our DNA
- Results - We value execution and outcomes over appearance and office politics. It’s that simple
- Diversity of perspective - Great ideas come from everywhere and anywhere
- Think big - We believe AlphaSense can change the game, and possibly the world
- Ownership - As owners of AlphaSense, it’s everyone’s job to ensure we do great work - and to always look for opportunities to do better
- Acceleration - We’re a fast-growing and fast-moving company. Do it, iterate, and try again
- Trust - We trust our colleagues to do what’s right and what’s best for the company
- Teamwork - Helping our colleagues succeed always comes first. We are serious about our work - and have fun too
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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