Strategic Customer Success Manager

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 trust PagerDuty as essential infrastructure.

Join us. At PagerDuty, you'll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award-winning workplace.

The Strategic Customer Success Manager is aligned at the customers' key stakeholder level, building and fostering strong relationships to help customers accelerate their digital journey. Customer Success Managers are working directly with customers that can vary in their market segment, size, solution complexity and life cycle, depending on the customers needs.

Responsibilities:

• Build and foster executive-level trusted advisor relationships with the customer’s IT, Engineering and Support organizations.
• Demonstrates hands-on PagerDuty Product knowledge by applying it to the customer's business priorities.
• Guide a customer on process, people and change management best practices to drive customers adoption of real time operations.
• Proactively identify risks to the customer achieving their stated business goals and work with the sales team to build a risk mitigation plan.
• Produce and execute a comprehensive adoption path of PagerDuty products, showing the current state, target future state with timeline.
• Deliver business value and innovation to a customer’s business by understanding the customers’ opportunity to reduce cost and drive growth.
• When appropriate, recommend additional expert services needed to drive success.
• Proactively communicate technical product changes, degradations, outages, end of life and other relevant updates.
• Represent the voice of the customer to inform our sales process or product roadmap.
• Lead the cross functional post-sales team at PagerDuty, delivering a seamless experience on behalf of the customer.
• Prepare and facilitate business review meetings, training sessions, webinars, demos, and other strategic and supportive interactions.
• Predict and forecast risk, renewal and expansion within the customer portfolio.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experienced professional with at least 12-15 years of relevant industry expertise in dynamic, customer-facing role within a B2B SaaS organization
• Strong consulting skills and proven results working as a trusted advisor to drive business value for customers.
• Ability to drive effective and influencing conversations at the C-level; facilitation of difficult discussions and adept at handling objections.
• Experience building Business value ROI models

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of IT enterprise architecture, Devops principles and modern IT monitoring is strongly preferred.
• Experience working in a DevOps environment or with a company going through a transition to DevOps.

PagerDuty is a flexible, hybrid workplace. We embrace and encourage in-person working as an integral part of our culture. Both our employees and external research tells us that co-located collaboration strengthens connections, drives innovation, and accelerates learning.

This role is expected to come into our San Francisco office 1 day per week, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!

The base salary range for this position is 127,000 - 195,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.

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Where we work

PagerDuty currently has offices in Atlanta, Lisbon, London, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. We offer a hybrid, flexible environment. We also provide ample opportunities for connection, like team offsites and volunteering events.

How we work

Our values guide how we support customers, collaborate with colleagues, develop products, and foster a culture of belonging. They define not just our actions, but what it means to be Dutonian.

What we offer

As a global organization, our total rewards approach is competitive with industry standards and aligned with local laws and regulations. Learn more, including country-specific offerings, on our benefits site.

Your package may include:

- Competitive salary

- Comprehensive benefits package from day one

- Flexible work arrangements

- Company equity*

- ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)*

- Retirement or pension plan*

- Generous paid vacation time

- Paid holidays and sick leave

- Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO

- Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*

- Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year

- Company-wide hack weeks

- Mental wellness programs

*Eligibility may vary by role, region, and tenure

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management, enabling customers to achieve operational efficiency at scale with the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud combines AIOps, Automation, Customer Service Operations and Incident Management with a powerful generative AI assistant to create a flexible, resilient and scalable platform to increase innovation velocity, grow revenue, reduce cost, and mitigate the risk of operational failure. Half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 rely on PagerDuty as essential infrastructure for the modern enterprise.

PagerDuty is Great Place to Work-certified™, a Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, a Fortune Best Medium Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology, and a top rated product on TrustRadius and G2. 

Go behind-the-scenes on our careers site and @pagerduty on Instagram.

Additional Information

PagerDuty is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status.

PagerDuty is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. Should you require accommodation, please email accommodation@pagerduty.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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