Sr. Manager, Customer Success Chicago, IL or Remote

At Four Kites we have the opportunity to tackle complex challenges with real-world impacts. Whether it’s medical supplies from Cardinal Health or groceries for Walmart, the Four Kites platform helps customers operate global supply chains that are efficient, agile and sustainable.

Join a team of curious problem solvers that celebrates differences, leads with empathy and values inclusivity

Four Kites is looking for an extraordinary people leader who is customer obsessed and believes in our core values of one team, bias for action, attitude matters and extreme ownership.

As the Senior
Manager, Customer Success
, you will lead a team of Customer Success Managers responsible for providing a best-in-class customer experience. The team is responsible for guiding customers through their visibility journey and managing a book of customers. Key metrics include Net Revenue Retention, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Health, and account growth. Your team will work heavily with Sales, Operations, Product and Leadership. The ideal candidate will be equally passionate about Four Kites solutions, customer outcomes, leading, developing and inspiring a team that scales with our growth.

• Development and manage a team of Customer Success Managers
• Build and cultivate relationships with customer executives and champions of strategic accounts and serve as an escalation point for client conflict resolution as necessary
• Partner with Customer Enablement to ensure CS Playbooks are being advanced based on our business growth and maturity
• Provide direction, coaching and feedback to CSMs around day-to-day execution of CS Playbooks
• Detailed management routines around account planning, business objectives, risk mitigation, and customer expansion
• Understand and mitigate account risk and escalat[e]to dependent functions as necessary
• Enable Customer Growth Account Executives, Renewals Manager and CSMs to strategize on renewals and expansion opportunities
• Hire, onboard, and develop team members to progress their career at Four Kites
• Contribute and lead a culture of customer success
• Collaborate with other Four Kites leaders to ensure one team approach to meet and exceed customer expectations
• Approximately 25% travel for client site visits

The Four Kites Customer Success Team owns the overall customer relationship. The team’s goal is to provide our customers the best experience and business consultancy. We provide best practices and thought leadership to help our customers recognize business value and prove ROI. Our goal is to be viewed as trusted partners and to create raving fans that want to continuously further their partnership with Four Kites.

• Manage and influence behavior through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building
• Understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue business models
• Analytical and process-oriented mindset
• Enthusiastic and creative leader with the ability to inspire others
• Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Experience in a Supply Chain industry or related SaaS company highly preferred;
  Tech startup experience advantageous
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, MBA a plus
• 7+ years’ experience in an account management, consulting or customer success
• 3+ years of directly managing customer-facing teams
• Experience directly or indirectly working with freight management and supply chain
• Experience working with complex software

The expected annual base salary range for this role is $145,000 - $175,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to experience, qualifications, skills, and business needs. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for bonus and incentive compensation as well as participation in Four Kites' employee stock option program.

Four Kites provides competitive compensation with stock options, outstanding benefits and a collaborative culture for all employees around the globe. To help you be your best, we have 5 global recharge days, in addition to generous PTO and standard holidays. Parental…