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Glenn Volk

Glenn Volk

Senior Success Manager
2920 Buchanan St, San Francisco,CA

Summary

As an experienced customer success professional looking for an senior individual contributor or management role at a growing company, Glenn has a demonstrated history of shortening adoption time, reducing churn, and growing revenue in a fast paced business-to-business software-as-a-service world. With 9 years of industry experience as a top performing individual contributor, company wide performance award winner, proven talent assembler, and team lead, Glenn has a strong background as a knowledgeable advisor, and data-driven success manager.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Customer Success Manager

Slack, Inc
San Francisco, United States
06.2020 - Current
  • Q3 Company Customer Success Award for Customer Management
  • Monitored metrics and developed actionable insights to improve efficiency and performance.
  • Manage 3 accounts totaling 4.49m AOV, 45.76K Billable Active Users, and growth potential to 150K users
  • Strong risk mitigation with 98% retention rate over all managed accounts
  • Successfully attributed to 3.56m ACV upsells with current pipeline of 2.23m
  • Navigated large complex organizations while driving alignment with administrators, users, and C level executives
  • Have deep domain expertise, product knowledge, business acumen/strategy, and thought leadership to drive outcomes
  • Monitored metrics and developed actionable insights to improve efficiency and performance.

Head of Success

Squelch
08.2019 - 03.2020
  • Lead end to end Customer Success team
  • Built out hiring plans, budget, job descriptions, and promotion paths for growth
  • Oversaw top customers: Intel, Fanduel, Khoros through large onboarding and roll out

Senior Manager, Customer Success

Figure Eight
05.2018 - 06.2019

Built and Lead Enterprise Customer Success Team responsible for all customers $75k+ in annual recurring revenue (ARR)

  • 87% Total Gross Retention, H2 2018
  • 119% Total Net ARR, H2 2018
  • Implement scalable processes resulting in decreased churn year-over-year (e.g., from 25% in 2016 to 13% in 2018)
  • Personally managed Figure Eight's top and largest strategic accounts: Apple, Twitter
  • Lead and executed large strategic projects for image annotation, NLP, and search relevance
  • Team is responsible for 80 customers, equatable to $11MM ARR
  • Hired, trained, promoted, and retained 6 current Customer Success Managers over 2.5 year period
  • Develop team charter, CSM career path, metrics, and strategic initiatives
  • Lead cross-functional Customer Success and Sales team meetings to further collaboration, churn mitigation, and revenue generation
  • Collaborate with Figure Eight C-level executives in cross-functional meetings (e.g., Product, Machine Learning, and Marketing)

Manager, Customer Success

Figure Eight
11.2016 - 04.2018
  • Player, leader, and coach to CSM team
  • Hired, trained, instructed, and supported 3 Customer Success Managers, to grow their skill sets as both individual contributors and leaders
  • Retained full book of enterprise accounts before slowly transitioning accounts to newly hired and ramped enterprise CSMs

Senior Customer Success Manager

Figure Eight
07.2015 - 10.2016
  • Managed $5MM ARR book of business as individual contributor
  • Q3 '15 - Company Wide Performance Award
  • Q3 '15 - 168% Net ARR
  • Q4 '15 - 148% Net ARR
  • Q1 '16 - 134% Net ARR
  • Q2 '16 - 120% Net ARR
  • Q3 '16 - 131% Net ARR

Customer Success Manager

Figure Eight
02.2014 - 06.2015
  • Individual contributor and sole success manager for all accounts

Education

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Colgate University
08.2005 - 05.2009

Skills

Relationship Management

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Timeline

Senior Customer Success Manager

Slack, Inc
06.2020 - Current

Head of Success

Squelch
08.2019 - 03.2020

Senior Manager, Customer Success

Figure Eight
05.2018 - 06.2019

Manager, Customer Success

Figure Eight
11.2016 - 04.2018

Senior Customer Success Manager

Figure Eight
07.2015 - 10.2016

Customer Success Manager

Figure Eight
02.2014 - 06.2015

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Colgate University
08.2005 - 05.2009
Glenn VolkSenior Success Manager