Senior Customer Success Manager

At Dataiku, we’re not just adapting to the AI revolution, we’re leading it. Since our beginning in Paris in 2013, we’ve been pioneering the future of AI with a platform that makes data actionable and accessible. With over 1,000 teammates across 25 countries and backed by a renowned set of investors, we’re the architects of Everyday AI, enabling data experts and domain experts to work together to build AI into their daily operations, from advanced analytics to Generative AI. 

The Customer Success team at Dataiku is focused on accelerating adoption and business outcomes by guiding customers on their fastest path to value with Dataiku. By leveraging deeply consultative skills and strong product knowledge, Customer Success Managers work with customers throughout their journey to understand their desired business outcomes, empower them to maximize the value of their existing Dataiku use cases, and optimize for growth into new user groups and use cases. Ultimately, CS ensures customers continuously see the value and return from their Dataiku investment. 

Customer Success Managers play an integral role in our business, also serving as the ultimate liaisons between customers and internal teams, including Sales, Services, Product Management, and Marketing.

Key Areas of Responsibility (What You’ll Do)

• Work with customers across our Retail & Growth sub-regions (especially for Italian accounts)
• Own a portfolio of assigned accounts that may vary in market size, industry, and complexity, with a focus on ensuring successful onboarding onto Dataiku, increasing adoption, ensuring retention, growth, and overall customer satisfaction
• Align closely with key customer stakeholders to ensure that the vision, implementation plan, and desired business outcomes established pre-sales are supported by clear objectives, action items, owners, and sponsors
• Have a strong command of Dataiku’s unique value proposition, the business value our key solutions drive, our approach to operationalizing Everyday AI, and common use cases and best practices. Be able to effectively leverage the above to guide customers on their journey with Dataiku
• Keen ability to develop a deep understanding of a customer’s business, use cases, and outcomes in order to guide them to achieve these via Dataiku’s product and services
• Continuously advise customers on how to leverage Dataiku to implement data science projects from design to production
• Monitor customers’ achievement of desired outcomes and value, consistently and effectively telling the story of these both to internal stakeholders and externally to key customer stakeholders
• Establish regular touch-points with assigned customers per established best practices, to review progress against strategic business and technical product objectives
• Leverage Customer Adoption & Health analytics to identify potential risks or opportunities for expansion, with a focus on translating this data into actionable advice
• Effectively prioritize and orchestrate resolution of customer requests or issues
• Develop trusted and collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders and business partners, including Sales, Sales Engineering, Services, Support, Partnerships, Product, and Marketing, among others
• Champion customers internally to mitigate risk, improve customer experience, drive value outcomes, and unlock growth
• Stay current on Dataiku’s products, competitive landscape, & data science trends
• Embrace and contribute to Customer Success team methodologies

Experience (What We’re Looking For)

• Minimum seven (7) years of professional experience in customer success, technical account management, or client relationship management roles with a demonstrated history of increasing adoption, retention, and customer satisfaction
• Experience managing a fast-growing book of accounts, with account sizes ranging from ~$200k to multi-million ARR across the Forbes Global 2000 and beyond
• Experience with KPIs such as Gross Dollar Retention, Net Dollar Retention, Renewal Rate, Logo Retention Rate, NPS, and CSAT
• Experience working collaboratively across Professional Services and Partner motions
• Track record of successfully navigating ambiguity, building consensus, fostering accountability, and working with urgency to deliver customer outcomes
• Strong written and oral presentation skills, with the ability to effectively engage both business and technical stakeholders (from Analyst to C-level)
• Confidence in serving multiple customer stakeholders and working to build communities of champions/advocates across large organizations
• An understanding of core data science concepts and the ability to translate business use cases into data science solutions
• Project management and storytelling skills
• Strong technical, analytic, and problem-solving skills

You may be a good fit for this role if you:

• You speak Italian (fluent, professional competency or native language)
• Have a never-ending intellectual curiosity, are detailed oriented, and analytical
• Have experience in hyper-growth, product-based technology companies
• Are passionate about technology, the data and analytics space, and enjoy learning new solutions, features/functionalities and translating these into solutions that drive business value for customers
• Understand the importance of being a self-motivated team player
• Show an appreciation for nuance and a desire to build consensus in a diverse and multicultural environment

What are you waiting for!

At Dataiku, you’ll be part of a journey to shape the ever-evolving world of AI. We’re not just building a product; we’re crafting the future of AI. If you’re ready to make a significant impact in a company that values innovation, collaboration, and your personal growth, we can’t wait to welcome you to Dataiku! And if you’d like to learn even more about working here, you can visit our Dataiku LinkedIn page.

Our practices are rooted in the idea that everyone should be treated with dignity, decency and fairness. Dataiku also believes that a diverse identity is a source of strength and allows us to optimize across the many dimensions that are needed for our success. Therefore, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All employment practices are based on business needs, without regard to race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, veteran status or any other aspect which makes an individual unique or protected by laws and regulations in the locations where we operate. This applies to all policies and procedures related to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, performance, promotion and termination and all other conditions and terms of employment. If you need assistance or an accommodation, please contact us at: reasonable-accommodations@dataiku.com

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