Customer Success Manager

New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Portland Maine, or Remote USA

We believe that adaptation is a necessity, not a luxury, and communities deserve access to powerful software that helps them plan for the future. The challenge of climate change is complex – it implicates how municipalities plan, manage capital, and communicate to both residents and higher levels of government. Forerunner helps local communities do these things better by empowering them to access, understand, and mobilize local-level flood risk data  software is built to be easy‑to‑use, so that governments preparing for our future can focus on the important stuff.

We're looking for an energetic Customer Success Manager to join our team. In this position, you will independently manage a full book of business from onboarding through renewal, serving as our partner community’s internal advocate, ensuring a high‑quality Forerunner experience, and identifying opportunities for increased customer value.

• Ensure customer health. You will become a trusted advisor to our partner communities, will deeply understand their workflows and needs, and ensure that they derive maximum value from their investment in Forerunner, leading to project success, retention, and renewal.
• Product activation. You will provide user communications, customized in‑app onboarding, and continued learning to ensure that our partner communities are fully utilizing their Forerunner software.
• Account expansion. You’ll support expansion of your accounts by identifying expansion opportunities and driving business outcomes in partnership with the sales & leadership team.
• Case studies and learning opportunities. You will evangelize Forerunner success stories throughout all of your accounts to help our community partners grow.
• Coordinate with the Product and Engineering teams. You’ll share the customer’s experience, ideas, and key concerns with the Product and Engineering teams to both aid the customer and move the product forward.
• Provide meaningful contributions to the development of CS policy and procedure. As an early member of our customer success team, your ideas and feedback will be crucial in setting our team up for ongoing success.

As a new addition to our team, you will help us spread the word about Forerunner and engage our customers in conversations about how software can help to transform their data and workflows. In general, you might be a good fit if you:

• Have experience with customer success in the Gov Tech space, floodplain management or flood insurance, GIS/mapping, or project management for government clients. Our customers—and our industry as a whole—are unique. Experience with floodplain management or working with local governments, while not a requirement, would be beneficial to your success when working with customers.
• Bring experience managing end‑to‑end renewals and proactively uncovering expansion opportunities—upsells, add‑ons, and cross‑sells—within a customer portfolio. Experience partnering with government clients or supporting complex public‑sector workflows is a plus and will help you be successful in guiding customers to expanded value with Forerunner.
• Are an excellent, empathetic communicator. You’ll often be the first point of contact for potential customers interested in Forerunner and building trust is crucial in our space. We’ll be relying on you to make a great impression in both written and phone/video communication.
• Are detail‑oriented and committed to quality. We’re passionate about creating value for our customers. A successful candidate will share this enthusiasm.
• Are comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity. We’re always learning, and hope you will be too. We are looking for someone who can be nimble in prioritizing work and isn’t shy in taking on additional responsibility.
• Have 4‑6 years of professional experience with a track record of meeting or exceeding goals. As a small startup, we’re excited about growth and expect you to be eager about contributing to it. Experience supporting SaaS software is preferred but not required.

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