Customer Success: Pivot Your Career
Customer Success: Pivot Your Career
Alex White and David Lokietz
Insightful interviews for anyone looking to join or move up in the Customer Success (CS) profession. We'll talk with guests with a variety of CS roles from customer success managers (CSM) to chief customer officers (CCO), along with CS recruiters. We'll explore various aspects of CS, including success stories, skills, challenges, and the future of Customer Success with the ultimate goal of helping you find your next role. Learn what qualities people are seeking and get a few hints on how to position yourself to land your dream job! Join us each month for an action packed episode!
Navigating the CS Job Market: Advice from recharge's Noah Little
In this episode of the 'Customer Success Pivot Your Career' podcast, hosts Alex and David discuss job-search strategies with Noah Little, a Senior Enterprise Customer Success Manager at recharge & CS Coach for landing your next CS opportunity. Noah shares insights on navigating job markets, crafting compelling resumes, and leveraging storytelling in interviews. He emphasizes the importance of documentation of achievements and seeking direct feedback for improvement. The conversation highlights the evolving landscape of customer success roles and practical tips for standing out to recruiters.
Jun 28, 2024
43 min
Cultivating Customer Success: Insights from SAP's Steve Pino
In the first episode of the Customer Success: Pivot Your Career podcast, hosts Alex White and David Lokietz have a conversation with Steve Pino, SAP National VP North America, Cloud Success Services focusing on data and analytics. They discuss the importance of relationship building in customer success, the evolution of customer success from on-premise solutions to enterprise cloud software, and the approach to solving clients' issues through trust and periodic check-ins rather than a sales-centric perspective. Pino shares examples from his career, emphasizing the value of understanding and adapting to clients' needs, implementing a rescue renewal program for underutilized software, and strategies for becoming a trusted advisor rather than just a vendor. The discussion also covers advice for hiring in customer success roles, focusing on teamwork, the we vs. me mentality, and the significance of building collaborative relationships within the company and with the clients to ensure mutual success.
May 23, 2024
34 min
Welcome to Customer Success: Pivot Your Career!
Welcome to our new podcast! Learn more about us and our podcast in this 6 minute introduction.
May 17, 2024
5 min