Launch Success Manager
Job Description:
Our Launch Success Managers are responsible for ensuring our customers launch the world’s best recognition cultures. Our Launch Success Managers work directly with customers to ensure they are led through the program goals definition, program design, configuration and adoption phases successfully in order to tee the customer up for success. It is the Launch Success Managers role to ensure the program is effectively communicated and driven within the client company. In addition, they are responsible for directing the program launch, adoption and ramp goals and delivering the results desired for both the client and Workhuman®.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader who has broad expertise in customer relationship management, consulting and project management. The ideal candidate will have large account management experience, understand what it takes to deploy enterprise-wide software, be well-versed in cross team coordination, have relationship management expertise, experience building lasting relationships with customers and be a strategic thinker.
The position will report to the Director of Customer Success.
This role will own and manage the relationship with our customers across the following key areas:
Program Goals Definition
Program Design and Development
Communication & Training Strategy
Program Configuration
Program Adoption & Ramp
Main duties and responsibilities:
Launch the world’s best recognition cultures.
Work with clients to complete a One Page Strategy for Success which defines goals, objectives, ambitions, program design and risks related to the customers program launch.
Demonstrate strategic value to the customer by understanding the customer’s ambition for recognition and effectively guiding and directing each customer to embrace best practice in order to deliver their ambition.
Establish a trusted advisor relationship that works to ensure customer’s overall satisfaction with our products and services.
Monitor and facilitate the customer’s adoption of our solution features and functionality to maximize their return on investment.
Effectively manage the client launch process from contract signature through deployment of the solution taking full responsibility for delivery of the suite of products the client selected.
Simultaneously run several implementation projects, communicate project data, track and analyze status of all ongoing projects according to process guidelines provided.
Communicate directly with the customer project team and resources to identify, document, assign and deliver customer specific program requirements as mutually agreed.
Ensure proactive and responsive approach to all aspects of customer success.
Efficiently manage the customer and internal company resources to meet all established milestones, ensuring targeted completion dates are achieved using internal project management tools.
Coordinate with internal or client resources to ensure an effective communication and training strategy is in place for the program to drive program awareness and adoption to the desired levels within the client’s defined goals.
Required skills and experience:
Experience guiding enterprise clients through a technology or change management initiative.
Ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, high-intensity, deadline-oriented work environment.
Proven experience helping clients adopt best practices and navigate their own organization to help instill change.
Exceptional oral and written communication skills required to document and communicate with internal and external resources.
Ability to work in a team environment with field sales, technical, marketing, consulting and operations personnel.
Ability to achieve results by effectively communicating with other groups and generating project plans for customers.
Strong technical aptitude and an understanding of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model.
Demonstrated project management skills in managing solutions for Fortune 500 customers.
Ability to work independently as a self-starter.
Ability and comfort in chairing on-site live meetings and virtual webinars, to large groups of people either customer facing or internal in nature.
High energy and positive ‘can do’ attitude.
Ability to travel approximately 30% of the time.
College Degree or equivalent work experience.
Minimum 5+ years of business experience with a demonstrated ability to manage complex programs for Fortune 500 customers.
Proficient in SalesForce.com, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office.
The Company:
Workhuman® is the world’s fastest-growing integrated Social Recognition® and continuous performance management platform. Our human applications are shaping the future of work by helping organizations connect culture to shared purpose. With a consistent stream of gratitude fueling unparalleled, provocative workplace data and human insights, Workhuman® Cloud is a critical software engine for global companies seeking to motivate and empower their people to do the best work of their lives. Workhuman® (formerly known as Globoforce) was founded in 1999 and is co-headquartered in Framingham, Mass., and Dublin, Ireland.
Did you know:
We are #1 Great Place to Work in Ireland for the 2019 medium-sized workplace category and have been named one of the 2018 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe.
Workhuman® is used by 4.5 million employees across 160 countries.
Our core values are; Respect, Determination, Innovation and Imagination.
Perks & Benefits for our Happy Healthy Humans:
Comprehensive Health Plans
Fully paid parental leave (12-week maternity/4-week paternity) effective day 1
Peer-to-peer recognition program
401(k)
Tuition Reimbursement
Commuter bus from downtown Boston
On-site fitness center
Wellness rewards and reimbursements
Fully stocked kitchen (cold brew on tap - snacks and coffee machines as far as the eye can see…)
Regular celebrations for employees, families and special guests
At Workhuman, we love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.
Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based on solely on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.