Customer Success Advocate, Algolia

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Mid level
Paris
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Salesforce
Mid level
Paris

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseAnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceAPIeCommerce

Company mission

Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.

Role

Who you are

  • 3+ years of experience of relevant experience at a SaaS/Software Company
  • Ability to manage a large number of active accounts, identify problems and opportunities, and provide solutions for each of them with strong process management, negotiation skills, financial acumen, and ability to apply strict policies
  • Ability to build relationships and collaborate closely with teammates
  • Ability to react and adapt to potential rapid shifts in priorities and organisational policies
  • Constantly looking to learn and improve
  • Strong attention to detail and process-oriented
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $50-200M ARR, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)
  • WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:
  • GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment
  • TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership
  • CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback
  • CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company
  • HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside

Desirable

  • Fluency in French
  • Experience with an enterprise CRM or customer service application
  • Experience with Salesforce CRM is a significant plus
  • Ability to demonstrate a strategic mindset to enable persuasive value conversations with customers at an executive level
  • Ability to manage transactions through every stage of the renewal cycle
  • Experience in negotiating complex multi-year service contracts

What the job involves

  • At Algolia, we’re looking for a Customer Success Advocate (Renewals Manager) responsible for high-volume engagements with a dedicated portfolio of customers in the EMEA region. As a CSA, you will engage with each customer proactively to improve their adoption of Algolia and identify risk and expansion potential
  • You are responsible for ensuring each customer is successful and sees value in Algolia while also managing the renewal process. You will be working cross-functionally, partnering with Sales, CSEs, and CSMs, along with finance and the deal desk
  • In this Customer-Centric role, you will have the opportunity to work on the front lines with our incredible customer base and be exposed to exciting and complex customer interactions
  • You'll connect with our customers to understand their needs and challenges while partnering with our Customer Success team to ensure their challenges are addressed
  • You'll establish relationships with customers as you negotiate to maximise mutual benefit at renewal time
  • Owning and executing a portfolio of renewal contracts in an assigned territory
  • Ensuring all renewals occur on time
  • Identifying growth opportunities and providing insights to the business that improve future business outcomes
  • Develop and execute win/win negotiation strategies for small, medium and large account contract renewals that maximise contract value while protecting and enhancing customer trust
  • Own, drive and manage the renewal process with customers, including renewal quotes and renewal opportunities, in collaboration with Customer Success, Finance, Legal, Deal Desk and Sales teams to ensure all contracts are accurate
  • Maximise account growth opportunities by playing an active role on the account team and helping to identify incremental opportunities upon contract renewal
  • Identify customer requirements, uncover roadblocks, and demonstrate strong account management and commercial capabilities to drive renewal to on-time closure (OTRR: On Time Renewal Rate & Revenue Retention will be a KPI)
  • Provide Customer Success Management with complete visibility to renewals and solicit Algolia Leadership involvement as required
  • Accurately maintain/update and provide renewal forecast of your territory and communicate any renewal risk to internal resources to develop resolution strategies
  • Follow and adhere to best practices for all internal processes, including, but not limited to, Opportunity Management, Data Quality and accuracy, Quotations and Forecasting
  • Achieve financial and strategic targets for minimising attrition, positioning favourable terms, boosting incremental revenue via up-sells, cross-sells and add-ons, and maximising customer value
  • Accurately forecast and manage pipeline on a monthly and quarterly basis

Our take

While in-site searching has been available for some time from web search servers such as Google and Bing, its functionality is limited due to it relying on general web scraping techniques which can miss relevant information. By contrast Algolia indexes only the company's site, allowing its search to serve accurate results extremely swiftly, which helps to drive sales conversions aside from making sites far more usable. The efficacy of this solution can be seen from its customer base of over 10,000 companies including the likes of Slack, Zendesk and Lacoste.

To diversify and increase the product range, Algolia have expanded into other real-time APIs such as product recommendations available for eCommerce websites. With the company performing extremely well over the last few years, Algolia have recruited key senior executives to futher its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

33% female employees

-3% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jul 2021

$150m

SERIES D

Oct 2019

$110m

SERIES C

Total funding: $334m

Company benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Mental Health Care
  • Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Life Insurance

Company values

  • Grit - We thrive outside of our comfort zone, pushing ourselves to go ever further. We think long-term and constantly strive to be better, even if things don't always go as expected
  • Trust - We trust each other just as we trust our users. We earn that trust by listening to each other, following through with our commitments and keeping our words
  • Care - We want the best for our customers, community & colleagues. We go above and beyond to make sure they are happy
  • Candor - We are open and honest. We give each other praise and criticism because we want to challenge each other and help one another grow
  • Humility - We want our teammates to succeed as much as we do ourselves. We believe each team member is as important as the other and we approach each new challenge knowing that we may not have all the answer

Company HQ

Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA

Leadership

Bernadette Nixon

(CEO, not founder)

Was previously CEO of Alfresco. Before that, was CRO at SDL and SVP & GM for OpenText


People progressing

Joined as an Account Executive. Promoted to Senior Account Executive after 1 year. They have been promoted to Director of Sales, Northern Europe.

Joined as an Enterprise Account Executive. Promoted to Director of Enterprise Sales after 2 years. Then promoted again to Head of Sales after 1 year. They are currently the Vice President of Sales for EMEA & APAC regions.

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