.Job DescriptionPlease note, you must have the right to work in Portugal to be a suitable candidate for this position. We cannot provide visa sponsorship for this role.We're thrilled to offer an incredible opportunity for a Manager to lead our first-ever Scaled Customer Success team in Lisbon! As the driving force behind this new initiative, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the team's success and making an immediate impact. If you're a visionary leader eager to build, inspire, and lead in a fast-paced, high-performance environment, this is your chance to create something truly exceptional from the ground up!As a Manager in the Global Scaled Customer Success organization, your responsibility is to lead a team of CSMs focused on driving customer experience, adoption, optimization and retention. This role requires a blend of team leadership, hands-on engagement, strategic thinking and operational rigor. You'll need to be a systematic thinker, comfortable with data, building hypotheses and operationalizing strategies to execution. You'll need a skill set both in direct customer engagement, scaled 1:Many program development and leadership, and digital program development and leadership as our customer base is diverse and distributed.Our goal is to ensure our customers are deriving value, are optimized for success, and are happily growing with Zendesk for the long term.A day in the life of a Manager, Customer Success:Team leadership of 8+ direct reports ensuring the team is supported, developing and surpassing KPIsCollaboration across the Global Scaled Customer Success org, cross functional teams like Sales, Renewals, Marketing and StrategyParticipation in Leadership meetings, strategic planning and goal setting around 1:1 and 1:Many engagementsOwnership of the team's performance and developmentSkilled at risk mitigation, value realization delivery and mentoring and developing talentOwnership of forecasting, team pacing, performance management, and continuous team improvementThe opportunity to lead with responsibilities across regionsThe Scaled team is committed to continuous improvement, testing and iterating, and seeking innovative ways to work efficiently and to deliver the best customer experience possible. We're a global team with members in AMER, EMEA, APAC and LATAM. We value hard work, candor, commitment to one another and our customers, and desire to learn and grow
