Principal Customer Success Manager - Learning (Global Customers)

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role will be based in NYC, SF, or Chicago.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

The Principal Customer Success Manager (CSM) partners closely with their assigned sales partners to ensure LinkedIn Customers achieve a significant return on investment (ROI) and drive business success with their LinkedIn investment.​ 

As a Principal CSM you will be tasked with: ​ 

• Serving as a Customer Champion and Advocate​ 

• Helping Customers realize value from their investment​ 

• Partnering on customer retention and expansion.​ 

The Principal CSM will partner with various stakeholders within assigned customers, to ensure effective user and product onboarding and engagement on LinkedIn products and solutions. 

Responsibilities Include:    

• Advance personal journey with Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as this is a top priority for LinkedIn and many of its customers  

• Mentor junior Customer Success Manager roles to help achieve professional development to meet client and internal needs 

• Continually work to evolve and improve Customer Success discipline within and across Customer Success Organization​ 

• Partner with sales counterparts on prioritized customers to drive overall customer adoption, enhance customer success, and mitigate customer churn risk​ 

• Act as a trusted advisor to the end users and their management to drive product adoption and ensure they leverage the solution to achieve agreed upon operational priorities, leading to full business value​ 

• Agree on business objectives and goals with customers to build measurable success plans, set cadence of communication to deliver ROI and operational reviews.​ 

• Develop new and innovative ways to share relevant data and insights that are impactful to customers and ties back to their success drivers through operational reviews to key customer stakeholders as well as Strategic Business Reviews. 

• Analyze current customer engagement metrics and leverage the Learning Center to provide new and ongoing product education options.​ 

• Maintain healthy customer engagement levels by identifying low utilization and providing solutions to further drive customer success​ 

• Maintain a deep understanding of LinkedIn products to effectively guide customers on best practice​ 

• Interpret customer insights to drive change in product and act as voice of customer to LinkedIn Product teams​ 

• Expedite technical and purchase-related escalations.​ Document all communication with customers accurately and in a timely manner via system tools. 

• Up to 30% travel may be required

• While this role does not own quota associated with renewal or growth, you are accountable for the success of the partnership as measured through depth, frequency and quality of executive engagements, delivery of ROI as validated by the customer, and growth opportunities identified.  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:    

• 7+ years of experience in any of the following: Customer Success, Account Management/Sales, Consulting, Product Training and Enablement, Project Management, or Change Management 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience in recruiting, applicable talent experience, learning, e-Learning, Organizational L&D, sales, account management, product enablement, and/or sales effectiveness.

• Expert interpersonal skills, demonstrated by the ability to build authentic business relationships and effectively manage relational challenges at all levels at the client side, including executive level 

• Expert organization, project management, and time management skills   

• Experience analyzing data, trends, and client information to identify product or growth opportunities in service of customer value 

• Influential verbal and written communication skills, including expertise in presenting to both small and large audiences 

• Expert understanding of Sales concepts and Software as a Service 

• Proven ability to influence through empathy, negotiation, and consensus building  

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience 

Suggested Skills:

• Customer Success
• Account Management
• Organizational L&D

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $115,000 to $186,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit .

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity Statement

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

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• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

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