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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. If a customer churns before the payback period is met, it’s a financial net loss.

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10 mindsets for change from Australia’s chief customer officers and experience leaders

Alida

Last week, 120 experience leaders in innovation, insights, customer operations and digital transformation gathered for the Chief Customer Officer Summit at the Park Hyatt Melbourne to discuss the state of customer experience (CX). Build customer intimacy. Drive insight-led innovation. “In

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McDonald’s Appoints Manu Steijaert as Global Chief Customer Officer

CSM Magazine

Manu Steijaert, McDonald’s Executive Vice President and Global Chief Customer Officer. McDonald’s Corporation has appointed Manu Steijaert, a McDonald’s veteran, as its first Global Chief Customer Officer. He will be leading a new Customer Experience team.

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Meet our new Chief Customer Officer, Walt Weisner

BirdEye

We’re excited to announce that we have a new Chief Customer Officer: Walt Weisner. Walt has spent more than 20 years working to delight customers at Silicon Valley’s most successful companies. Walt has previously led Customer Operations at companies like RingCentral and WebEx.

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A 4-Step Plan For New Chief Customer Officers, With Donna Peeples – CB29

Customer Bliss

Donna Peeples was the Chief Customer Officer at AIG — obviously a large company. From there: Donna Peeples is an accomplished senior executive with extensive P&L responsibility and verifiable results in a variety of industries and global markets. Episode Overview.

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The Chief Customer Officer Role in Media, With Robert Bridge of Telegraph Media Group – CB39

Customer Bliss

The New York Times has a leader of Customer Experience (who we will soon be interviewing), and I was pleased to see that the UK is also embracing this role. Robert’s answers: Be a marketer in this role and embrace the broader amount of work it encompasses (I believe all of us in this field are marketers of hope, as an aside).

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From Chief Information Officer to Chief Customer Officer, With Brian Lillie – CB60

Customer Bliss

It’s often from Operations or Marketing, but in the case of Brian Lillie, he went from Chief Information Officer of Equinix , the world’s largest IBX data center and colocation provider, to CCO. I wanted to learn more about that transition, his background, and how he built out the new role. That’s this episode.