Customer Success Manager

About the role:

The Customer Success team is a key part of Forters gotomarket approach responsible for managing the entire postsales lifecycle for our customer base. As Forters innovative technology continues to lead the market our Customer Success Managers (CSMs) work closely with customer teams to help them fully realize the value and potential of our solutions. We place a high degree of trust in our CSMs who are instrumental not only for driving customer satisfaction but also for renewals expansion and strategic insights. In this role you will cultivate enduring relationships with executivelevel clients tackle complex business challenges and elevate partnerships to ensure customers are supported at every stage of their journey.

This position is based in Denver Colorado.

What youll be doing:

• Collaborate closely with sales and a crossfunctional team to own customer renewals and achieve bestinclass gross and net retention targets across a 7figure book of business
• Quarterback high impact engagements including regular business reviews to showcase Forters value to client executives and drive renewals and expansions
• Cultivate and maintain a trusted advisor status with key customer stakeholders & executive sponsors
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding and alignment with the customers business goals expectations and challenges
• Act as the internal customer advocate
• Secure client advocacy through reference calls case studies etc that act as sales accelerators and turn customers into active promoters.
• Enable client stakeholders on Forters platform and technology prior to account golive; provide ongoing training and support.
• Share key insights on Forters product and processes internally with our Product and leadership teams helping to guide the company roadmap
• Serve as a source of industry best practices thought leadership and trends most notably with customer executive stakeholders
• Direct technical inquiries to the Support team and assist as needed to ensure a positive customer experience.
• Maintain clean data within our internal systems ensuring both you and Forters leadership team have accurate information about your book of business

What youll need:

• 4 years experience in customer success or similar customerfacing role managing relationships with multifaceted and complex organizations with a focus on technical products (management consulting account management etc)
• Proven success driving renewals and upsells in a SaaS or subscriptionbased business
• Demonstrated success leading recurring meetings with executive leadership including regular business reviews where there is a strong emphasis on values and ROI
• Exceptional relationship management including a proven track record of maintaining and growing relationships at an executive level
• Proven track record of maintaining and growing relationships with external stakeholders
• Experience synthesizing customer and partnership goals into strategic plans and communication of objectives to both internal and external leadership
• Track record of crossfunctional collaboration with internal Product R&D and/or operations teams to prioritize and translate client needs and communicate product feedback
• Experience directly enabling and training clients on how to use your companys tool/UX in a valueled manner
• Motivation and adaptability to operate within a fastpaced highgrowth SaaS startup environment and be trusted to drive initiatives autonomously that require buyin from a wide collection of stakeholders
• Ability to break down ambiguous and nuanced problems into concrete manageable components and think through optimal solutions
• Exceptional communication and negotiation skills with the ability to influence and persuade stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Openness to being hands on. Not afraid to roll your sleeves up and get in the weeds while solving complex operational problems
• Background in payments fraud or finance industry is a bonus

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerfulit can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a companys connection with its customers. How do we do it Forter was founded on the insight that its not about what is being purchased nor where but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customersensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. Were meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards including:

• Great Place to Work Certification2024
• Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYCand 2024
• Forbes Cloud 100and 2024
• #3 on Fast Companys list of Most Innovative Finance Companies 2022
• AntiFraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards 2024
• SAP Pinnacle Awards New Partner Application Award 2023
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards Best Fraud Prevention Platform 2023

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 600 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013 weve raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global Bessemer Sequoia Capital March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Were on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Adobe ASOS eBay Instacart Priceline and Nordstrom can block fraud drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter we believe unique people create unique ideas and valuable experience comes in many forms. So even if your background doesnt match everything we have listed in the job description we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives we grow together as humans and as a company.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• RSUs
• Matching 401K Plan
• Comprehensive and generous health insurance including vision and dental coverage
• Home office allowance
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays

*Forter does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Forter (or any related) jobs alias or directly to any Forter employees. Forter will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Salary Range: $90000 $115000 annually bonus equity benefits
The referenced salary range is based on the Companys good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location work experience market conditions and skill level.

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