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What’s the Job Outlook for Customer Success Professionals?

ChurnZero

What’s the Job Outlook for Customer Success Professionals? Embarking in an emerging career field like Customer Success brings great possibility—and uncertainty. So, what’s the job outlook for Customer Success professionals? This means a vigilant focus on growing customer retention and lifetime value.

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SaaS Customer Experience Starts in the C-Suite

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

In 2003 there were 30 Chief Customer Officers worldwide according to the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) Council, reaching 450 by 2011. Earlier this month, Thomasz Tungaz, a venture capitalist at RedPoint, published a blog titled “Why your SaaS Startup Needs a VP of Customer Success Sooner than you Might Think”.

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Inside Customer Success: Achievers

Amity

With hundreds of customers worldwide, Achievers delivers a powerful new way for companies to engage, align, and recognize employees to drive business success. We sat down with Vanessa Brangwyn , the VP of Customer Success, to discuss how Customer Success has evolved at Achievers over the last five years.

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10 Leaders Share Their Customer Success Career Paths

Amity

Customer Success seems to be the new “it” job in SaaS. From new grads to established professionals with various backgrounds, there’s a growing interest in how to get into Customer Success. Stephen O'Keefe , Director of Customer Success at HubSpot. ” Here’s what they said.

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Inside Customer Success: Oracle Marketing Cloud

Amity

Amity had the chance to sit down with Peter Armaly, Principal Transformation Advisor at Oracle Marketing Cloud to find out how its Customer Success philosophy is evolving, and how it has managed to keep the customer at the heart of its work throughout its evolution. How did you get started in Customer Success?

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What's The Best Way To Handle Software Outages?

Amity

While the Engineering team is hard at work trying to get the system back up, Customer Success is the one who has to save face and mitigate the damages the outage will cause on customer relationships and retention. • SaaS Customer Success: Best Practices for Unplanned Outages.

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Acquisition Addiction’s Impact on Customer Experience ROI

ClearAction

Sweetened deals to lure away competitors’ customers can alienate existing customers. A wider array of customers means more customer personas and subsequent high demands on Customer Service and Customer Success roles. 4 The Importance of Creating & Keeping Customers , Financial Times, 2011.

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