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Scott Holznagel

Scott Holznagel

Gainesville,Florida

Summary

Results-driven and customer-centric Customer Success Professional with a proven track record of increasing retention through deep customer insights and user experiences. Adept at fostering cross-functional collaboration to consistently deliver innovative solutions that align with customer expectations and drive business growth.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Enterprise Publisher Development

Admiral: The Visitor Relationship Management Co.
2020.01 - Current

Admiral, a VRM (Visitor Relationship Management) SaaS for digital publishers, providing visitor engagement.

  • Managed enterprise publisher relationships, strategic development, and technical implementations.
  • Created client roadmaps and repeatable expansion model; based on analysis of traffic and recovery data, which increased ARR and Net Revenue Retention (10-15% Quarterly).
  • Increased new revenue for publishers through strategic adblock and recurring revenue.
  • Worked with product team and designers to scope and create new features based on publisher feedback then refine features prior to launch.
  • Collected stakeholder (publisher & visitor) feedback and product interaction data to assist Product with prioritizing or streamlining features.
  • Coordinated with external developers' and designers' cycles to allow us to better implement features, targeting, API integrations and maintain design standards.
  • Learned CSS and HTML to streamline custom design of interstitial creatives.
  • Researched and wrote copy with marketing to create case studies.

Director of Account Management

SharpSpring Inc.
2018.11 - 2020.01

SharpSpring, a CRM SaaS focused on marketing automation for marketing agencies and direct customers.

  • Developed customer experience and relationship-focused process from sales through account management and product development.
  • Created segmentation for specific customer experiences; with data-backed methods, designed to improve platform adoption, utilization and increase growth for agencies.
  • Worked with product teams to focus on adding or improving features determined by user stories and feedback data to increase churn risk or create sales blockers.
  • Served as intermediary from marketing through sales, customer success and product to ensure alignment on development and release priorities.
  • Created more robust training and selling courses to guide agencies to add clients and thereby utilize them as channel partners.
  • Decreased attrition rates by 30% and improved client growth.

Senior Commercial Lead

Infinite Energy, Inc
2008.04 - 2018.11

Infinite Energy, a procurement contract and trading firm of natural gas and electricity for commercial and residential customers as well as an energy SaaS that was acquired by Gas South in 2020.

  • Responsible for establishing sales targets and developing strategies to meet them.
  • Designed personalized, value-based tactics to pivot based on fluid market conditions and competitor activity.
  • Worked with trade room to capitalize on early contract renewal to reduce opportunities for competitor encroachment.
  • Structured Commercial Account Representative position to improved customer relationships which improved retention from from 67% to 95% YOY.
  • Improved channel partner strategies to increase retail revenue 27%.
  • Assisted with implementing adoption of scrum processes across product, sales, marketing, and trade teams.
  • Worked with development teams to prioritize features based on customer feedback.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Certified Product Owner - Scrum Management

Winnow Management
Panama Beach, Fl

Skills

  • Customer Experience
  • Partnering and Relationships
  • Strategic Account Planning
  • Revenue Growth
  • Product Development
  • Marketing and Advertising
  • User Experience Optimization
  • Data-Driven Decision Making
  • CSS, HTML
  • Jira, Pendo, Confluence, Gitlab, Figma, & Trello
  • UX and UI Design

Timeline

Enterprise Publisher Development

Admiral: The Visitor Relationship Management Co.
2020.01 - Current

Director of Account Management

SharpSpring Inc.
2018.11 - 2020.01

Senior Commercial Lead

Infinite Energy, Inc
2008.04 - 2018.11

Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration

University of Florida

Certified Product Owner - Scrum Management

Winnow Management
Scott Holznagel