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How does one gauge autonomy in a customer success interview?

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  1. Christine Knific
    Christine Knific

    mParticle by Rokt Senior Director, Customer Success - North America • 3y

    To gauge autonomy of Customer Success Manager candidates, I like to ask: Describe what role the CSM plays with the customer, in your experience? This helps me see the candidate's willingness to be strategic or tactical (hopefully both, when necessary!), how they work with internal cross-functional teams, and how they view ownership of commercial responsibilities. Provide an example of a customer escalation and how you turned it around. In this question, I'm looking for a candidate to both show o ...Read More

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  2. Wynne Brown
    Wynne Brown

    Medius Enterprise Customer Sales • 3y

    This is a great question because autonomy is such a key trait for a CSM. And since CSMs come from a variety of backgrounds, getting a clear take on someone's autonomy is critical. Prompt the candidate to tell you about their autonomy by asking them directly: can you tell me about a work situation where you owned an outcome?   What you're looking for here is their sense that they are responsible for driving outcomes - that ownership of outcomes is the autonomy you're looking for since they owe th ...Read More

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