customer success and account management
What counts as an achievement for a customer success manager on LinkedIn
An achievement for a customer success manager is the size of the book, and the retention rate you held it at.
- they screen on
- book of business, retention, net revenue retention, expansion
- the decision
- They are deciding whether you can hold revenue their size, so the book value is the qualifying number.
- questions below
- 5
duty line
Responsible for managing a portfolio of accounts and ensuring client retention.
no book of business, no retention rate, no expansion
achievement line
Held a $4.2m book across 38 accounts at 112% net revenue retention, expanding $610k in 12 months.
Same customer success manager, same career. The difference is that somebody asked for the numbers.
The 5 questions that produce those numbers
These are the questions a recruiter screening customer success recruiters asks on a call. Answer them on paper and your profile writes itself.
the question
why it is asked
unit
1
How big was your book of business — accounts and annual value?
book size is the first filter on a success resume
accounts and currency
2
What was gross or net revenue retention on that book?
retention is the number the role exists to protect
%
3
How much expansion or upsell did you close, and over what period?
expansion is what separates success from support
currency plus period
4
Did you save any at-risk accounts? How many, and what were they worth?
a named save is the most credible thing on the page
count and currency
5
What did you do to adoption, onboarding time or health scores?
it shows you drive outcomes rather than attend calls
% or days
Write your answer to each one down. A figure you cannot remember exactly is still better as a range than as a duty.
Why a customer success manager’s profile ends up with none of these numbers in it
Your book of business had a value and a retention rate that were reviewed every quarter. Both are missing from a profile that says you managed relationships.
A grader cannot fix this. It can only reword the lines already on the page, and those lines are the problem — there is no book of business figure in them for it to find. The numbers were never written down, so they have to be asked for.
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