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The Ultimate Chief Customer Officer (CCO) Job Description

Gainsight

The Chief Customer Officer (CCO) role is crucial for virtually every SaaS company. Hiring one moves Customer Success (CS) from a function to a company-wide strategy, offering a customer voice in the boardroom and a peer to your Sales and Product leaders.

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Book Review – Chief Customer Officer 2.0 – How to Build Your Customer Driven Growth Engine

ijgolding

Even if your company does not yet have a ‘Chief Customer Officer’ or ‘CCO’ it is unlikely to be long before they do! Unite accountability as customers experience you. Competency Three: Build a Customer Listening Path – Seek input and customer understanding, aligned to the customer journey.

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Brainshark B-B Chief Customer Officer Diane Gordon – CB42

Customer Bliss

Diane has been working since the early 1980s, serving in a number of transformative customer experience roles. She was SVP of Worldwide Customer Solutions at Endeca, SVP of Services and Support at Enterprise Mobile, Chief Customer Officer at Bullhorn, and now CCO of Brainshark (following a stint as SVP, Customer Care) at the same company.

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Introducing the “Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show”

Customer Bliss

In the past 35 years leading customer experience transformation, it has become increasingly apparent that a crucial role of customer leadership executives (The Chief Customer Officer, The Chief Marketing Officer, The Customer Experience Officer) is to unite the company to achieve customer-driven growth.

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The Critical Conversation You MUST Have When Developing Your Customer Journey Map

Customer Bliss

In my new Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. I recorded this video on my way back from a customer session, where we spent two hours just defining the first version of the customer journey stages.

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The CCO’s Checklist: 28 Actions to Take for Customer-Driven Growth

Customer Bliss

As increased emphasis falls on customer experience to impact loyalty, customer experience executives (CCOs, CXOs) must take a leadership role in driving company culture through actions that improve CX—in order to achieve customer-driven growth. Define what customers value and understand evolving needs.

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Top women CXOs

CloudCherry

Jeanne has over 20 years of experience into ‘Customer Experience’ as she learned early on from her father. She is specialized at guide leaders and businesses to earn customer-driven growth and development. Jeanne is the author of the famous book, “Chief Customer Officer” (Jossey-Bass, 2006).