[Remote] Practice Manager, (Customer Experience, Cybersecurity)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cofense is the only cybersecurity platform focused exclusively on stopping phishing, and they are seeking a Practice Manager to lead a team of professional services consultants and customer success professionals. The role involves managing phishing defense programs for clients and ensuring high performance, customer satisfaction, and effective team management.
Responsibilities
- Create a team culture that enables high performance, a sense of urgency, a focus on outcomes, a proactive mindset, constructive feedback, and continuous learning
- Organize and manage the team’s goals, activities, priorities, and account plans that ensure early delivery of value to Cofense’s customers and stakeholders through regular inspection and proactive risk management
- Partner on various strategic business initiatives across the organization
- Engage with Cofense customers, as well as internal teams such as sales, support, product and engineering, marketing, content, legal, and others to deliver valuable product and service solutions; thus, maintaining solid client relationships
- Coordinate efforts to retain and gain new business, including forecasting customer churn and helping identify new product and service upsell opportunities
- Service as an escalation point for your team members and assigned customers and act as Cofense’s leadership presence and support customers, as necessary
- Manage a team of customer experience professionals in the performance of their duties, including day-to-day client account management, client onboarding, program development, reporting and data analysis, and churn mitigation. Ensure departmental standards/expectations are met and contractual obligations are delivered satisfactorily
- Provide strong leadership, guidance and motivation to direct reports
- Recruit, onboard, train, develop and coach direct reports
- Maintain a client case load, as needed, to support the business
- Oversee the building and implementation of effective phishing training, awareness and education programs for Cofense customers based upon their current security environment
- Oversee the implementation and adoption of phishing detection and response mitigation strategies
- Deliver customer presentations, as necessary, to ensure excellent customer relationships
- Aid in the analysis of simulated phishing program trends and recommend corrective program actions to ensure adequate training and education
- Analyze the current phishing threat landscape often and share this information with your team, so they are positioned to offer customized phishing defense advice to increase a client’s overall security posture
- Coordinate customer-focused activities to ensure successful product implementation and usage
- Assist with all regional client satisfaction issues and engage directly with the client as needed
- Engage the sales team often and keep them informed of overall client health
- Engage with the product team regularly to share customer feedback and product enhancement requests
- Manage performance utilization rates and balance caseloads as necessary to ensure expectations, timelines, and contractual deliverables are satisfactorily met
- Review output produced by your direct reports to ensure this meets quality expectations and aligns to standards, methodologies, and best practices
- Ensure regional goals and performance are aligned to business and corporate goals
- Participate in business/operational analysis, planning, development and execution
- Other duties as assigned Skills
- In-depth knowledge of the phishing threat landscape and an understanding of the risk it presents to organizations across various industry verticals and sizes
- Advanced understanding of messaging, SMTP delivery and email security products
- 5+ years in a leadership and management role
- 8+ years supporting customers in a consultant, managed services, or customer support capacity
- Prior experience in software delivery is a must, experience in the security space is preferred
- Strong resource management, leadership and coaching skills
- Successful track record of working with enterprise level customers
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Proficient in managing all aspects of client relationships
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
- The ability to meet with, and present to, internal and external teams including executive leadership
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- CISSP or Security + certification preferred
- Experience with ChurnZero preferred
- Demonstratable experience managing change
- Experience building and successfully managing remote-based teams
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint Benefits
- Fully Remote
- Uncapped Variable Comp
- 401k Match
- Employee Appreciation Days Company Overview
- Cofense provides phishing threat management and remediation solutions to the world's leading brands and organizations. It was founded i
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