We're looking for a Senior Customer Success Manager to partner with our highest-value clients. In this role, you'll drive meaningful customer outcomes, retention, and growth by building strong executive relationships, delivering impactful business reviews, and offering data-driven recommendations. As a trusted advisor, you'll help shape customer strategy, proactively reduce churn, and identify opportunities for expansion. This is a hybrid role and is open to applicants located within commuting distance of Talkwalker's Tokyo office. In this role, you will report to the Managing Director, Japan.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Serve as the main point of contact and manage a defined set of Enterprise accounts, focused on increasing their adoption and growth\
• Review customer health and flag and address any risks for churn
• When needed, partner with sales team to drive upsell opportunities
• Identify happy customers that can be used as references
• Provide feedback (from clients and own) on product features, gaps and pricing to Manager
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of TW products and integrations, while keeping up with industry trends and competitors
• Work closely with Support team to properly prioritize client requests and escalations
• Evaluate and analyze customer needs and work with other TW departments to address them
• Develop strong relationships based on trust and transparency with clients
• Identify product and process gaps and issues and suggest potential solutions
• Provide insights to customers to ensure that they get the most out of the platform with the aim of helping grow our customer base
• Gauge customers' levels of engagement with TW and identity ways to improve penetration

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in SaaS customer success, account management, or a strategic consulting organization
• Strong fluency in Japanese (reading, writing and in professional setting conversation)
• Prior success of achieving and/or surpassing target renewal, retention & upsell rates on a consistent basis
• Prior knowledge of (or willingness to learn) marketing and advertising technology
• Comfort with preparing and delivering formal executive business reviews (EBR) to senior-level executives, with a focus on project-specific milestones and customer health
• Experience using customer success software (ideally Gainsight), CRM software (ideally Salesforce), and Google Applications (Docs, Sheets, Slides)
• Clear verbal and written communication skills
• Proactive team player who has fresh ideas when it comes to user adoption and churn mitigation
• Enjoys working closely with customers to ensure complete satisfaction
• Accountability: holds self and others accountable to meet and exceed commitments
• Commitment to Results: consistently achieves results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results
• Influence: Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment and mobilizing people to take action
• Negotiation: successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships
• Perseverance: pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn't give up
• Problem-Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems. Looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects

WHO YOU ARE:

• Solution seeker: You're focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don't wait to be asked.
• Lifelong learner: You have a growth mindset – you're here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn't.
• Resilient adapter: In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
• Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
• Critical challenger: You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
• Active communicator: You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
• Integrated thinker: You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team's work drives broader organizational goals.
• Accountable owner: You take pride in the work you're responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
• Bar-raiser: You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.

In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:

Step Up: Dare to go beyond the expected to achieve greatness. #StepUp

One Team: Make Hootsuite a place we soar together by respecting each other's individuality, building trust, and showing up for the team. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe

Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed

Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile

Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses

Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.