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by Chris Durst Jan. 30, 2025
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Lumen, an American telecommunications company, has posted a Remote Customer Success Advocate II job to their careers page.
In this role, you will be “…viewing our products from the customers’ perspective, monitoring early indicators of customer health, proactively addressing their concerns, and helping them better use our technology to meet their corporate goals and objectives.” This will involve implementing customer success plans using standardized journey templates to set customer expectations and ensure they are prepared for key milestones through the lifecycle, and other related duties.
Applicants should have 3+ years customer success or account management experience; excellent communication and interpersonal skills with ability to build relationships within customer accounts; a technical aptitude; and a working knowledge of MS Office suite.
The pay range for the Remote Customer Success Advocate II position varies depending on where you live, with a low of $54,579 and a high of $80,042 per year.
The company also offers a comprehensive benefits package.
Following are excerpts from the Remote Customer Success Advocate II job posting:
The Customer Success Advocate II is a customer-facing role that ensures our small and medium-sized customers are wildly successful in delivering on their critical business objectives through leveraging their current Lumen solutions. This is accomplished by viewing our products from the customers’ perspective, monitoring early indicators of customer health, proactively addressing their concerns, and helping them better use our technology to meet their corporate goals and objectives. With established trust and loyalty, this role seeks to naturally progress and expand the partnership through identifying potential up-sell and cross-sell opportunities and engaging sales accordingly.
The Main Responsibilities
- Implement customer success plans using standardized journey templates to set customer expectations and ensure they are prepared for key milestones through the lifecycle (Get, Use, Pay & Renew), reinforce ecosystem hand-offs, and empower customers to self-serve
- Leverage and manage overall customer metrics, which include customer usage data, health indicators (disconnects, credits, orders, churn propensity scores, NPS), and renewal dates with a holistic view that aligns with customer objectives/success metrics
- Evaluate current product and portal adoption maturity level (depth and breadth) and address roadblocks by leveraging digital marketing slicks, adoption articles and other templates
- Know the Lumen portfolio offerings well enough to recognize a potential opportunity for expansion and ask appropriate questions to further qualify the opportunity, partnering closely with sales
- Implement revenue management practices, driving accountability and alignment of our operations and financial goals; revenue retention and growth strategies which include value realization, renewal execution, risk management and customer growth/expansion
- Communicate, escalate, and drive mitigation plans cross-functionally to de-risk accounts; handle urgent customer concerns and escalate internally when necessary (i.e., Service Improvement Plans)
- Partner with sales, delivery & support to ensure successful deployment of solutions and services including periodic first bill reviews and audits to minimize billing disputes
- Responsible for renewal and re-rate implementation via contract end-date management, leveraging renewals to influence customer technology evolution while incorporating on-net migrations that improve Lumen profit margins
What We Look For in a Candidate
- Experience: 3+ years customer success or account management experience
- Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
- Experience working with and supporting enterprise customers, evaluating, and responding to needs with empathy and integrity
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with ability to build relationships within customer accounts
- Ability to proactively problem solve, make decisions on issue resolution while effectively negotiating directly with the customer and internally on their behalf
- Technical aptitude to learn data networking technologies, products, and features
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail with good organizational capabilities
- Ability to interpret customer data points and insights, prioritize and respond accordingly
- Prioritize and manage multiple workstreams and task lists with strong time management skills
- Ability to quickly learn various software, web-based platforms, and systems in accessing data
- Working knowledge of MS Office suite
Compensation & Benefits
This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.
Location Based Pay Ranges:
$54,579 – $72,765 in these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WV, and WY.
$57,309 – $76,409 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, and RI.
$60,039 – $80,042 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.
Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We’re able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process.
HOW TO APPLY
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