Customer Success Manager

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Corporate Overview

In today’s cyber threat landscape, protection starts with people. At Proofpoint, that simple truth fuels our passion for protecting users, the data they create, and the systems they rely on from a uniquely people-centric perspective.

And we are just as passionate about finding the right people to help us in that mission. When you join Proofpoint, you are helping to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform
• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud environment
• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

We are devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That is why we are a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

The Role  

Proofpoint is looking for a self-starting, responsible, action-oriented, and self-motivated individual to join our growing field services team.  The mission of the Customer Success Manager is to ensure that our customers realize the full value of the products and services they have purchased from Proofpoint, ultimately maximizing renewals and add-on transactions. 

This is a post sale, customer-centric role in a fast-paced environment that demands interaction with enterprises at senior levels, as well as with technical staff within the traditional IT and Security organization.  Successful candidates will have outstanding communication skills with a proven track record of successfully interacting with customers regarding business and technical interests alike; a strong technical background, especially related to security and messaging; extensive experience driving concurrent projects and issues to completion with little or no direction, and above all a passion for ensuring a world class customer experience.

Your day-to- day

• Meet regularly with customers for health checks or other relevant engagements to review product adoption and provide them with specific, actionable guidance on how they can get more value from what they already own.
• Analyze various sources of telemetry data to identify target customers for outreach activities, focused on driving customer adoption of product features and best practices.
• Be a relentless advocate for customers to help ensure that Proofpoint deployments are successful.  Consistently gather feedback to identify trends and acting as the voice of the customer, provide that structured feedback to product management.
• Identify At Risk customers that are not achieving their desired outcome and as needed, lead cross-functional efforts to get those customers back on track.
• Engage with appropriate internal team members from cross functional groups such as Sales, Engineering, Support, and Professional Services.
• Develop and oversee individual strategies to help meet Proofpoint’s customers’ requirements for success.  Guide the customer in best practices to incorporate those strategies into their business/technical plans.

What you bring to the team

• Customer Success Management or post-sale Account Management experience in a SaaS organization. 
• Must be able to articulate customer business requirements and serve as the customer voice internally, even anticipating customer needs based on common scenarios experienced.
• Demonstrate a high level of engagement with customers and colleagues, managing interactions in a professional manner with a focus on achieving mutual positive results.
• Proven ability to influence colleagues and customers to act in high impact situations.
• Ability to effectively communicate and present technical information to both technical & non-technical audiences.   
• Excellent communication skills, phone manner, and meeting presence with all levels of customer leadership.
• Ability to work independently and ability to adapt quickly with a positive attitude.

Desired:

• 4-year college degree in a business area, technical area or equivalent
• Previous experience in professional services, sales engineering, senior support engineering, or other customer facing role with exposure to multiple technology areas.
• Previous experience with Security Awareness Training products. 

Why Proofpoint 

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We are a customer-focused and driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products—and many exciting reasons to join our team. We believe in hiring the best, the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation.

We are a diverse, multinational company with opportunities in all functions, and leaders that welcome candidates from all walks

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 105,420.00 – 165,660.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 88,340.00 – 138,820.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 79,170.00 – 124,410.00 USD