AMA: Confluent Director, Customer Success EMEA, Conor Holmes on Developing Your Customer Success Career
March 20 @ 10:00AM PT
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Confluent Senior Director of CS & Account Management • 2y
Levelling up will also mean ensuring you consistently deliver excellent work against your core competencies in your role. If you are unsure whether you are doing this, as...
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Confluent Senior Director of CS & Account Management • 2y
The attributes/skills of the most successful CSMs that I have seen are as follows;Customer Empathy: They genuinely understand how to internally represent the customer's c...
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Confluent Senior Director of CS & Account Management • 2y
I wouldn't present metrics to ask for a raise. Firstly, I would understand how my company typically provides salary increases and align with that process. In the interim,...
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Where do you see the future of customer success heading?
What skills will a future customer success manager need that he/she doesn't have today?
Confluent Senior Director of CS & Account Management • 2y
I see several trends happening;Business models will continue to evolve to be more customer-centric based on usage. This means that landing the customer will be aligned to...
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Confluent Senior Director of CS & Account Management • 2y
I answered a similar question for new grads looking to get into a CSM role, the same advice applies. Learn about the role. I have included some links below that can help ...
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Confluent Senior Director of CS & Account Management • 2y
It's still a misunderstood function, and there are many different ways to deploy customer success, leaving a consistently referenceable best practice methodology challeng...
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Confluent Senior Director of CS & Account Management • 2y
This depends on the type of product your company sells. However, I would say it's essential that CSMs deeply understand the product and its benefits. I would ensure I kno...
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