Customer Success Manager

The Position

Do you dream about creating a more sustainable future? At Uplight, we are motivating energy users and providers to accelerate the clean energy ecosystem. Working with over 75 of the world’s leading electric and gas utilities, Uplight provides an end-to-end customer energy experience. Uplight delivers personalized experiences that customers have now come to expect–improving satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing the cost to serve, and contributing to carbon reduction goals. We are B Corp certified,  enabling us to put our values into action by not only making decisions for the benefit of our shareholders, but also for our customers, environment, employees, and community.

We are seeking a Customer Success Manager to join our team and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.

What you get to do:

• As a Customer Success Manager, you will be the focal point for Uplight engagement with customers, providing oversight for the implementation and utilization of market-leading customer engagement, the marketplace, energy savings, and other select products. 
• You will take ownership of aligning our products with our customers’ business objectives, with a focus on driving successful adoption and greater business value for our customers. 
• You will be responsible for building strong relationships with customer stakeholders by establishing yourself as a trusted advisor as well as acting as a primary advocate for our customers internally. An important aspect of the Customer Success Manager role will entail working collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with members of various Uplight teams, including Engineering, Product, Operations, Regulatory, Sales, Marketing and other teams, to deliver measurable value for our customers.

Skills and experience are necessary, but we hire on value alignment first, so if you feel you would be a good fit with us, still consider applying.

What you will contribute:

• Excellence in delivery: Oversee the deployment, onboarding and continued adoption of our software and energy savings product suites, including customer management, risk mitigation, and on-time/on-budget delivery.
• Deliver and execute world-class customer success processes and best practices
• Ensure smooth handoffs between Uplight teams and the successful onboarding of new customers
• Provide coaching and training to improve adoption of the Uplight product by each customer
• Effectively track and report on key metrics
• Drive Value and Adoption at Uplight customers: Ensure customers realize value from Uplight offerings.
• Work with customers to understand their motivators and business objectives and provide insight as to how Uplight can be leveraged to support those objectives.
• Push and prod the customer to continually achieve value from Uplight
• Help the customer understand the people and process capabilities they need to develop to fully leverage our technology.
• Serve as a trusted advisor: Establish role as customer’s go-to resource for knowledge about Uplight products as well as customer engagement best practices and solutions.
• Build a deep understanding of each customer’s business objectives, deployment challenges, and needs throughout the lifecycle of the engagement, and actively collaborate to solve these needs with our solutions.
• Be an effective communicator, taking the lead to present key results, facilitate meetings, and deliver difficult messages to customer
• Provide guidance to customer users and stakeholders around best practices on the use of Uplight products.
• Act as customer advocate internally bringing intelligent product feedback and recommendations from customers and users back to the Uplight Product team
• Seek out new business opportunities: Partner with Sales to support successful renewals and contract expansions.
• Ensure customers successfully adopt Uplight products and achieve stated business objectives leading to a successful renewal.
• Understand further needs of customers and align them with Uplight products/services in customer accounts, driving incremental/upsell business opportunities
• Play an integral role in assisting with pursuits and proposals.

What you bring to Uplight:

• An ideal candidate will be experienced in delivering SaaS or energy efficiency projects, have strong communication skills and is passionate about working closely with customers/customers. You must also be comfortable working independently.
• At least 5 years of experience in Project Management, Account Management or Customer Success, preferably at a SaaS or enterprise software company
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• A natural affinity for working across departments and colleague personas to drive cross-functional workstreams to completion and are an independent thinker who proactively identifies issues, interdependencies, and solutions
• Experience working on large, complex IT or similar technology integration projects requiring attention to detail, planning, and multi-channel communication requirements
• Expertise developing and maintaining key relationships across an organization
• Attention to detail and ability to internalize and communicate a wide array of information concerning software and analytics products as well as the sales process
• You care about energy, its impact on our customers, their customers, and the world
• Willingness to travel 20-50% of the time

Bonus Points:

• Work experience within the utility industry 

What makes working at Uplight amazing:

In addition to all the standard medical and dental benefits, that kick in Day 1, we:

• Are proud to be over 300+ rebels with an important cause by helping to create a more sustainable planet.
• Are committed to the environment, our employees, and our communities. 
• Are focused on career growth by following defined career ladders
• Take our work and mission seriously and….we love to laugh!

We also:

• Provide a 401k Match
• Have an innovative flexible time-off policy
• Keep you energized with plenty of food and drink 

Uplight provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.