Customer Success Manager

UpSlide is the number one productivity solution provider for financial services. Our software dramatically improves the functionality of PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Power BI and enables users at firms like Citi, KPMG, and BNP Paribas to focus on high-value tasks rather than formatting or copy-pasting. We’re scaling up with 160+ employees across our offices in New York, London, Paris (HQ), Singapore, and Berlin.

Our values ✨

Our values guide our approach to work and are at the heart of our recruitment process. To join our team, we look for individuals who value:

• Excellence: We think that every detail counts, and we place great importance on the quality of our deliverables.

• Trust: We are passionate, committed, and free to act with autonomy.

• Happiness at work: We enjoy looking on the bright side and we share our enthusiasm with our colleagues and clients.

The team 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

You’ll be working directly with 5 fellow CSMs in London, 15 CSMs globally, and managed by Ellie (Success Team Lead).

At UpSlide, we believe in fostering a positive and collaborative work environment. Here are some of the team rituals that contribute to our vibrant culture:

• Yearly seminar in Paris: This event, hosted at our Paris headquarters, serves as a unique opportunity for teams to connect, collaborate, and enhance the overall cohesion of the UpSlide global family.

• Team lunches: We often go out for team lunches to celebrate wins, reflect on projects, socialize as a team or try out new restaurants!

• Weekly goûter: Every Thursday afternoon the office meets up for snacks and chitchat.

• Monthly social events: Once a month, we organize social events, ranging from team-building activities to casual outings to yoga/spin classes.

Team goals 🎯

You will be looking after part of our rapidly growing book of clients with some key accounts having your support.

With the support of senior colleagues and a growing global Success function, you will have the opportunity to take on early responsibility for some of our most important clients and progress quickly.

Your responsibilities 🖋️

Client satisfaction, adoption, and renewal

• Build and nurture strong relationships with key stakeholders within customer organizations, becoming a trusted business advisor

• Master and enrich your client knowledge and UpSlide product knowledge to be your clients’ go-to source of knowledge and advice and maintain a detailed understanding of products and services, assist clients with questions, and proactively suggest the best products for their needs

  • Lead business reviews and introduce your client to new features relevant to their use case

  • Organize webinars to train your clients on specific features

  • Assist in creating training courses and educational materials for our clients

• Deliver engaging and thorough training sessions to clients to ensure great adoption

• Establish clear retention goals, ROI tracking, and process milestones for the client and collaborators to work toward

• Promote an energetic fan base for our product and locate brand ambassadors (client sponsors) to champion UpSlide’s benefits and value across the client’s business

• Work closely with the Sales teams to build account plans and identify expansion and upsell opportunities

• Lead workshops with our Product team to represent your clients’ voice

• Organize in-person events such as trainings, lunches, etc. to meet clients face-to-face
  

Data analysis and innovation

• Analyse your clients’ usage statistics to boost usage through training sessions, webinars, etc.

• Seek out and drive upsell and expansion opportunities within your client base by being commercially curious.

  Collect and process customer feedback through surveys

• Optimise existing processes within the company and actively enhance customer success initiatives

  • Innovate by creating new onboarding tools such as webinars, a statistics dashboard, and a newsletter

  • Organise events to promote UpSlide

  • Work with your manager and team to continually uplevel our white-glove services, offerings, and scalability

Your goals ⚡

3 months

• Be familiar with UpSlide and our client industries

• Be signed off to give training sessions and business reviews

4-6 months

• Be autonomously managing your book of clients and handling day-to-day interactions

• Deepening your technical knowledge of UpSlide

• Adding value to the team (process improvements, suggesting ways to solve tricky client situations, taking on projects outside of core role)

9 months

• Be on track to hit annual KPIs (NRR and churn rate)

You are a great fit if you have:

• At least 2 years of proven experience in enterprise B2B relationship management, customer success, or account management

• Technical aptitude, strong problem-solving abilities, and analytical skills

• Ability to build and maintain relationships internally and with clients

• Interest in leveraging data, analytics, and automation to drive ROI

• Strong team player mind, always looking for ways to contribute but also manages well independently

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel)

• An expert eye for detail

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (min. fluent in English)
  

We’d love it if:

• You can switch contexts quickly and easily, and are skilled in managing multiple priorities at the same time

• You have strong project management skills to manage an exciting portfolio of clients

• You are familiar with financial and professional services

• You are fluent in another language

✨ If you don’t tick all the boxes but you think you’d be a great fit, please apply and tell us why.

Recruitment process

• Phone interview with Andrea, Talent Acquisition [45’]

• Video interview with Ellie, Success Team Lead. This interview will include a training session [45’]

• In-person interview with Alex, Head of Success [90’]

• Final video interview with Aurore, Deputy CEO [30’]

  🚀 We'll conduct a reference check to learn how to help you thrive!

  ⚡ On average our process lasts 3 weeks.

What we offer

Make a real difference and be at the very centre of a self-funded and growing SaaS company (doubling every two years for the past 10 years)!
🌍 International environment: Start-up with five offices (Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Singapore) and users in more than 60 countries

💻 Hybrid work: 2-3 days/week hybrid work policy

🧑‍💻 Work-from-home budget: €500 WFH equipment budget

🌱 Training & professional development: Collaboration with our sister company, IPH, who provides UpSliders with training on key soft skills and management

💆‍♀️ Wellness package: £45 per month for physical and mental wellness activities

⏰ Flexi-work: Flexible working hours

👶 Parental leave: Paid parental leave for the birthing/non-birthing parent and help for parents of children under seven

• Birthing parent: 14 weeks of fully paid leave

• Non-birthing parent: 4 weeks of fully paid leave

• Additional benefits: flexible return to work options, and additional 5 days fully paid

• 4 days fully paid leave for sick children up to 6 years old or up to €1,800 for childcare reimbursement

🏠 Beautiful office: An inspiring eighth-floor corner office near Liverpool Street with beautiful common areas and meeting rooms, a balcony with a view, bike storage and showers, tea/coffee, etc.

✈ Holidays: 25 days plus public holidays & a half-day of additional holiday per year of full service (up to 5 additional days)

🎉 Company events: Office socials and international company events (e.g. annual company seminar, team seminar, and sustainability actions taken throughout the year)

💸 Compensation: Competitive package

✅ Pension: Pension contributions (with matched contributions up to 5% after one year)

🩺 Health insurance: Opportunity to opt into a health insurance plan (Vitality)

More about UpSlide

• On top of exciting business challenges in a fast-growing market, you will find a friendly, caring, and challenging culture

• You will be met with opportunities to acquire new skills, learn from others in a multicultural environment, and grow as a person

• UpSlide employees have committed to making a positive impact on the world. We obtained B Corp certification in 2022 with strong commitments toward our employees, community, clients, suppliers, and the environment. UpSlide is now 30% owned by employees
  More info here: upslide.net/en/from-a-to-b-corp-our-mission-for-positive-impact/

• UpSlide was ranked #1 best place to work in 2019 and #1 best place to work in 2020 in the category “best company for remote work”
  More info here: upslide.net/en/happiness-at-work-recipe/

As a B Corp-certified company, we have strong commitments toward our employees, community, clients, suppliers, and the environment. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels welcome. This commitment to diversity and inclusion is applied in our recruitment process and your employee experience once you’ve joined UpSlide ✨