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I’m the first customer success hire in my company. What advice would you give to someone tasked with establishing this function in an existing business structure?

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  1. Kiran Panigrahi
    Kiran Panigrahi

    Salesforce Director - Customer Success | Formerly HSBC, DELL, DELOITTE, AGILECRM, GAINSIGHT • 2y

    Absolutely, piloting the customer success function in an organization is a unique and exciting opportunity for growth and learning. Understanding the company's goals and objectives, defining clear objectives and KPIs, evaluating segmentation and existing processes, and fostering cross-functional collaboration are indeed crucial initial steps. From there, you can dive into developing customer-centric strategies, effective engagement methodologies, and continuously iterating and improving based on ...Read More

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  2. Cormac Kelly
    Cormac Kelly

    SurveyMonkey VP of Customer Success | Formerly Microsoft • 8mo

    First of all, congratulations, that's awesome that your company is investing in such and important space, and also, that you are the customer success artist that has a blank canvas to create your masterpiece! For me the first thing to do is to define what customer success means for you and your company. There are a number of things that I believe are integral to core culture of what a good customer success organization is. Customer-Centricity - table stakes right? But it needs to be called out, ...Read More

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