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Customer Success Operations Manager

Udemy

Udemy

Customer Service, Sales & Business Development, Operations
Austin, TX, USA
Posted 6+ months ago

Customer Success Operations Manager

Austin, TX

About us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.

This hybrid position requires two days per week in our Austin office.

About you

You’re a collaborative, data-driven, and creative problem-solver who loves diving into the details. You thrive in dynamic environments like ours where you can strategically build systems, processes, and tools to create best-in-class customer experiences. You love influencing our company’s growth journey and enabling our internal go-to-market teams to efficiently generate revenue and scale.

About this role

We are looking for a Customer Success Operations Manager to drive the effectiveness and efficiency of our Customer Success team. This role will report to the Manager of Customer Success Operations as a part of our GTM Operations Org and work directly with some of our Customer Success leaders. The Customer Success Organization encompasses; Customer Success, Renewals, and Professional Services.

What you'll be doing:

  • Project Manage and drive cross functional projects, transformational projects, and change management projects in partnership with CS Leadership
  • Partner and enable CS Leadership with reporting, inspection, and governance; dive deep into data to identify key strategic insights to improve our business for various customer segments
  • Contribute to operational and cross functional initiatives by being the voice of Customer Success
  • Develop insights into our customer health so we can detect early signals of at-risk customers and identify upsell opportunities
  • Develop, communicate and reinforce system standards, processes and policies and recommend ways to optimize our SFDC and Gainsight instance and partner closely with our BizOps team
  • Support capacity planning for parts of the CS Organization
  • Identify process automation and improvement opportunities and work with cross-functional teams to drive these initiatives, such as Sales, Marketing, Product, and Finance.
  • Own the documentation of Customer Success Operations processes and ensure they are maintained up to date

What you’ll have

  • 3+ years of experience in an Operations role focused on Customer Success in SaaS
  • Experience partnering with business leadership
  • Experience with Salesforce and Excel (vlookups, pivot tables, etc) a must; Gainsight a plus
  • Passion for designing processes that scale
  • Data-driven mindset with a commitment to process improvement
  • Strong listening skills, open to input from other team members and departments, and an understanding of how people go through a change and the change process
  • Project management skills
  • An eye for inefficiency and like to fix challenging problems

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

Life at Udemy

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

  • We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.

  • Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.

  • Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.

  • We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work.

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our Benefits Start With U

Our benefits package at Udemy “starts with U” and is grounded in mission-driven benefits that intentionally align with our core values. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you’re a full-time Udemate based in the United States:

  • Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, and disability coverage
  • HSA/FSA/Commuter: Pre-tax savings/spending plans, including HSA employer contributions

  • Transgender Benefits: Expanded medical coverage for gender-affirming care

  • Parental Benefits: Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption, and surrogacy expenses; twelve weeks of paid family bonding for birth, surrogacy, adoption, and foster placement (plus up to six to ten weeks of paid disability leave for birthing parents) as well as a two-week “ease-back” program that enables parents to return part-time at full pay

  • Whole U: Fully paid memberships for meditation/mindfulness, therapy/coaching visits, financial planning, fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, menopause care, breastmilk shipping, and caregiving support

  • Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development

  • Retirement: Pre-tax and Roth 401(k) plan with an employer contribution

  • Charitable Giving: Corporate charitable match for eligible nonprofits and charities

  • Vacation: Flexible vacation for salaried Udemates and fifteen days per year for hourly

  • Holidays: Twelve paid holidays throughout the year

Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.

At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for benefits and equity.
Hiring Compensation Range
$90,000$113,000 USD
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Head of Global People Partners and BEDI
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What makes a great teammate at Udemy?
01:24
Career advice to your younger self?
00:50
What do you like to do outside of work?
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CEO
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00:49
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Career advice to your younger self?
00:42
What do you like to do outside of work?
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