
Customer Success Manager
- Alabama
- Permanent
- Full-time
CSMs partner with Lead Account Managers to design and drive a digital transformation roadmap (BluePrint) leveraging BlackLine. The CSM partners with Lead Account Managers to develop a plan to deploy the key elements of the Digital Transformation Framework to advance the customers' digital transformation journey. The CSM challenges the customer's processes and designs innovative solutions to advance the customers' digital transformation journey, increasing adoption and expansion of BlackLine, preventing attrition and churn, and continually enriching the customer experience.
The CSM leverages their BlackLine expertise; their process optimization expertise; their accounting and internal controls, financial analysis, invoice to cash, and/or intercompany operations experience; as well as their professional judgment, to provide leading practice optimization strategies, insights, and deliverables. These deliverables include original, innovative solutions for complex customer challenges, consulting services, process redesign and transformation, solution architecture specific to the customers' challenges, one to many thought leadership, executive touch points and strategy sessions, and recommendations to accelerate customer's digital transformation journey.
- Most importantly, the CSM must be confident in the unknown as many customers require assistance in understanding their own processes before considering optimization with BlackLine. All facets of the CSM role are designed to drive customers' successful digital transformation journey.
- Using the Success Plan (including the Foundational and Digital Transformation Components), partner with Lead Account Managers to motivate customers and drive customers' success as they pursue digital transformation.
- Maintain and elevate BlackLine knowledge, as well as process optimization expertise; accounting and internal controls, financial analysis, invoice to cash, and/or intercompany operations experience; and other relevant domain knowledge that is imperative for advising customers on their Digital Transformation.
- Partner with Lead Account Managers to engage with customer leadership and understand the customers' goals, objectives, and challenges and address using the Digital Transformation Framework.
- Deliver actionable thought leadership and expertise to customers regarding using BlackLine's solutions as a foundational technology supporting their digital transformation journey.
- Using professional judgment and expertise, offer opportunities where customers can provide their processes without written documentation; Review and analyze the processes and develop solutions (even when the customer is unsure of their process) based on personal experience and experience with other customers.
- Work as a team with Lead Account Managers and other departments on account planning focused on ACV expansion, services revenue, user adoption, referenceability, and preventing churn and attrition.
- Work with customers to assess current state processes, challenge the current state, architect potential solutions, and partner to deliver process optimizations.
- Design original, innovative solutions for complex customer challenges where no standard solution currently exists.
- Shadow customers as they pursue digital transformation, providing consultative guidance resulting in value realization.
- Listen to customers to understand their needs and translate their pain points into actionable BlackLine solutions
- Articulate value and benefits associated with optimized solutions.
- Ensure that customers are aware of all complimentary and billable services available to partner with them on their journey.
- Document process optimization use cases in a way that allows for their use throughout BlackLine.
- Leverage prior and current experiences and expertise to develop and deliver thought leadership to customers through webinars and other multi-customer events.
- Exhibit authentic energy for BlackLine and the ability to motivate and engage our customers.
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to assist colleagues with more complex process optimizations.
- Other duties as assigned
- Advanced knowledge of BlackLine solutions to optimize processes
- 5+ Years of experience in Customer Success
- Build Relationships with Customers as a Proactive Trusted Advisor
- Recognized process optimization skills and ability to architect multiple solutions with limited customer support/documentation
- Demonstrated value communication skills; succinctly tie customer challenges to actionable solutions that deliver value
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Adaptability to changing priorities and customer needs
- Self-motivated, proactive team player with a natural curiosity and passion for learning
- Prioritization and time management skills
- CPA, CIA or other professional certifications
- A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
- A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
- A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.