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Ashley DeJesus

Denver,CO

Summary

Reliable Manager demonstrating high level of ownership and initiative. Possessing exceptional work ethic and desire to grow teams and processes from the ground up. Offering a knack for building productive working relationships. Successful in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments to manage goals and team development.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Manager, Customer Success Enterprise

Lacework
02.2023 - Current

In addition to the responsibilities and metrics I delivered as a Manager of Customer Success:

  • Create Success and Demand Validation docs that showcase value and confirm customer use cases. This helped create internal champions and confirmed intent to renew for 80% of Lacework's customer base
  • Develop high/low touch model for customer success and sales team, which resulted in better investment for our top tier customers
  • Work with Marketing and Marketing Ops to create Onboarding Customer Survey and process, which resulted in 90% response rate and grew our references by 50%
  • Lead Ambassador Program, which aligns CSMs with Product Managers to review and triage customer's feature requests. This new team and process has resulted in 40% more feature requests going into Lacework's roadmap

Manager, Customer Success Enterprise

Lacework
08.2021 - 02.2023
  • Recruit, train, onboard and manage a team of seven Senior Customer Success Managers with a total renewal ARR of $10M
  • Achieved net retention rate of 110%-138% QoQ
  • Achieved Net Promoter Score of 50/50
  • Help create Joint Success Plan template and process, which resulted in saving time with use case validation across customer base
  • Collaborate with Sales Ops and Product Management to develop a process for tracking license utilization across customer base, which increased our customer's adoption to over 70%
  • Work cross-laterally with other senior leaders including sales, marketing, product management and engineering to resolve product issues, which resulted in attaining a 88% renewal rate and 115% add-on rate in Q2FY23

Sr. Customer Success Manager

Lacework
02.2021 - 08.2021
  • Manage 25-30 Enterprise Customers with a total renewal ARR of $5M
  • Conduct ongoing customer touch-points to ensure usability and maximization of the Lacework Platform
  • Establish Success Plan rhythm and train other CSMs on how to maximize this tool with customers
  • Discover expansion opportunities within existing customer base and work with the Regional Sales Manager to close add-on business
  • Onboard new Customer Success Managers
  • Participate in interview committee to help build the Customer Success Team.

Strategic Success Manager

Carbon Black Security Business Unit At VMware
10.2018 - 02.2021
  • Supported 20 Strategic Customers with 15k+ endpoints each
  • Developed and maintained executive relationships through semi-annual, onsite Executive Business Reviews
  • Drove bi-weekly Strategic Alignment Review Calls with middle management and administrators
  • Point of escalation for support and engineering tickets
  • Spearheaded cross-lateral initiatives with other departments to meet customer deliverables and improve Carbon Black's internal processes
  • Attained 92% renewal rate against a $3.5M quota (exceeded target metric of 85%).

Sr. Enterprise Customer Success Manager

Carbon Black
01.2016 - 10.2018
  • Conducted quarterly reviews with endusers and middle management to track customer health, communicate latest software updates and other educational resources to maximize investment
  • Project Managed customer engagements with executives, support, product, professional services and engineering
  • Quarterbacked customer escalations by aligning resources and handling executive briefings
  • Championed all aspects of customer renewal cycle from quote to close for 90 accounts.

Regional Account Manager

Bit9 + Carbon Black
01.2015 - 12.2016
  • Closed three Fortune 100 Accounts in Iowa and Nebraska
  • Added new channel partners to the territory and enhanced partnerships with existing channel: Optiv, Forsythe and CDW
  • Generated $3 million in territory pipeline
  • Lead a team of two inside representatives and sales development representative.

Account Manager

Bit9 + Carbon Black
01.2014 - 12.2014
  • 120% of yearly quota
  • Converted 21 Net New customers in Great Plains/Missouri Valley Territory
  • Generated $1.9 million in pipeline
  • Built relationships with key channel partners: FishNet, Accuvant, Torus Technologies.

Sales Development Representative

Bit9
02.2013 - 12.2013
  • Scheduled initial presentations to drive new business and opportunities for Field and Inside Sales Team
  • Consistently exceeded monthly demo goal (25-30)
  • Developed key qualities to becoming an Inside Sale Representative: i.e.) time management, lead generation, demo pitch, forecasting and building relationships.

Customer Success Manager

Rapid7
07.2011 - 01.2013
  • Led recurring client meetings to drive overall impact and customer loyalty
  • Maintained strong, multi-level relationships with each customer; ensuring that Rapid7 solutions supported the ongoing needs and security objectives for each customer
  • Achieved quarterly targets for renewal revenue and new lead/upsell opportunities.

Sales Support Coordinator Intern

Rapid7
05.2010 - 06.2011
  • Managed sale contests, visuals, presales utilization, office supplies and outside vendors
  • Drove weekly executive status meetings, wrote and distributed meeting minutes
  • Utilized Netsuite to track hardware, manage past due opportunities, create searches, quotes and statements of work.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Communications

Boston University
05.2011

Skills

  • Employee Development
  • Managing Operations and Efficiency
  • Project Management
  • Joint Success Planning
  • Hiring and Training
  • Developing Processes and Workflows
  • Team Building
  • Recruitment and Hiring

Accomplishments

  • Get $hit Done Award for Lacework's Community Launch - 2023
  • Leading LaceHER Award - 2022
  • CS Leading Lacer Award for Outstanding Leadership: 2021
  • At Our Best Recognition – VMware Elevate Award: 2020
  • President's Club: 2015, 2019
  • Women in Security - Kansas City: Founder and Secretary 2015-2018
  • Toastmasters: Founder and VP of Rapid7 Chapter 2010-2013

Hobbies and Interests

  • Ski bum on weekends
  • Orange Theory Fitness addict
  • Dog lover
  • Viola player

References

Upon Request

Certification

  • Harvard Business School Online - Management Essentials
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
  • AWS Security Essentials

Timeline

Sr. Manager, Customer Success Enterprise

Lacework
02.2023 - Current

Manager, Customer Success Enterprise

Lacework
08.2021 - 02.2023

Sr. Customer Success Manager

Lacework
02.2021 - 08.2021

Strategic Success Manager

Carbon Black Security Business Unit At VMware
10.2018 - 02.2021

Sr. Enterprise Customer Success Manager

Carbon Black
01.2016 - 10.2018

Regional Account Manager

Bit9 + Carbon Black
01.2015 - 12.2016

Account Manager

Bit9 + Carbon Black
01.2014 - 12.2014

Sales Development Representative

Bit9
02.2013 - 12.2013

Customer Success Manager

Rapid7
07.2011 - 01.2013

Sales Support Coordinator Intern

Rapid7
05.2010 - 06.2011

Bachelor of Science - Communications

Boston University
  • Harvard Business School Online - Management Essentials
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
  • AWS Security Essentials
Ashley DeJesus