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Forrest Hersom

Customer Success Professional
Denver,CO
Forrest Hersom

Summary

Driven, servant leader and strategic advisor for enterprise and mid-market organizations spanning SaaS, data, marketing, retail, and consumer industries. Over six years of experience across customer success, product management, marketing, and tech strategy. Always starting from empathy and bringing joy to the journey.

Overview

6
years of professional experience
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Seso
San Francisco, CA (Remote)

Enterprise Customer Success Manager
01.2023 - 06.2023

Job overview

  • Developed and owned multi-year relationship strategy for a portfolio of top-tier Enterprise customers, including owning customer satisfaction, retention, and expansion
  • Guided customers to implement and use the right set of products and features from the Seso suite to drive maximum value for their specific use case
  • Created innovative solutions to drive ramp, adoption, and expansion with the company's most complex accounts
  • Collaborated with Sales, Operations, and Product teams to execute on, and help create playbooks, data points, tools, and resources to educate and encourage the upsell/cross-sell/renewal strategy within each account
  • Served as a strategic advisor for clients, understanding nuance behind their needs, communicating complex concepts and priorities clearly

Typeform
Barcelona, Spain, (Remote)

Enterprise Customer Success Manager
06.2021 - 12.2022

Job overview

  • Maintained global portfolio of Enterprise customers (Full-lifecycle management) including Fortune 500 logos
  • Surpassed success metric goals with 98% GRR and 103% NRR in the first year
  • Communicated regularly with C-suite executive stakeholders, as well as Product, Marketing, Support and IT teams
  • Drove expansions and cross-sales across multiple product lines
  • Created enablement content for onboarding and account management in Notion
  • Coached and trained new CSMs and Onboarding Specialists

Gloo
Boulder, CO

Technical Project Manager
08.2020 - 06.2021

Job overview

  • Facilitated cross-functional team meetings, stakeholder reviews, and communication loops between Product, Sales & Success, Support, and Marketing
  • Led agile development teams through daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, team retros, and sprint planning
  • Removed blockers and impediments to deliverables to ensure timely, accurate task completion
  • Created and maintained product roadmaps, feature release calendars, sprint backlogs, and go-to-market timelines

Gloo
Boulder, CO

Account Consultant + Marketing Strategist
02.2017 - 08.2020

Job overview

  • Served as a trusted advisor for over 40 unique organizations
  • Led executive teams through onboarding, implementation, and optimization across 5 unique products
  • Developed effective go-to-market, support, and email nurture strategies for 11 unique product offerings
  • Authored 3 eBooks and over 10 blog posts on the topic of data-driven business strategy
  • Analyzed customer data and personas to tailor content and drive engagement

Education

University of Colorado At Boulder
Boulder, CO

Bachelor of Arts from Film
08.2013 - 12.2016

Arapahoe Community College
Littleton, CO

Associate of Arts from General Studies
05.2011 - 05.2013

Skills

Customer Success

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Proficiencies

Salesforce, ChurnZero, Catalyst, Zendesk, Looker, Asana, Stripe, Zoho, Slack, Gong, Calendly, Notion, Google Workspace, Zoom, HubSpot, Gainsight

Timeline

Enterprise Customer Success Manager

Seso
01.2023 - 06.2023

Enterprise Customer Success Manager

Typeform
06.2021 - 12.2022

Technical Project Manager

Gloo
08.2020 - 06.2021

Account Consultant + Marketing Strategist

Gloo
02.2017 - 08.2020

University of Colorado At Boulder

Bachelor of Arts from Film
08.2013 - 12.2016

Arapahoe Community College

Associate of Arts from General Studies
05.2011 - 05.2013
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