Customer Success Manager - Named Accounts

Asana
Tokyo, Japan
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience managing high-value enterprise accounts in Japan and a consultative approach to customer success.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience managing enterprise accounts and a consultative approach to customer success
    — “guide the customer to deploy Asana successfully, adopt it widely across their organization”
  • Professionals who can act as a strategic partner and advocate for regional customer needs
    — “customer-centric at your core with a devotion to ensuring customer success, adoption, and advocating for regional customer needs”

Things to consider

  • Office-centric hybrid schedule requires at least three days in the Tokyo office weekly
    — “office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Tuesday, Thursday and one additional day of choice”
  • Up to 10% travel is expected, depending on customer needs
    — “Travel on-site up to 10% of the time, depending on customer needs”

How to stand out

  • Highlight consultative engagement and long-term partnership experience with enterprise clients
    — “position yourself as a preferred long-term strategic partner”
  • Demonstrate your ability to surface customer insights and align with cross-functional teams
    — “Serve as the voice of your customers by surfacing key trends and insights back to our Product, Research, and business teams”
  • Showcase your understanding of the Japanese market and fluency in Japanese
    — “Strong understanding of the Japanese market; Fluency in Japanese is required”
  • Emphasize your experience in developing and executing joint customer impact plans
    — “co-create joint customer impact plans that include success metrics, engagement and adoption strategy”
  • Demonstrate your ability to analyze customer data and act on it for growth
    — “Analyze customer usage in internal data systems to identify, communicate, and act upon both risks and opportunities”
Pace · VariedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • high customer adoption and retention
  • successful customer impact plans
  • positive customer feedback
Typical background
customer successaccount managementconsulting

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer Success ManagementStrategic Account ManagementCustomer Journey ExecutionCustomer Adoption And RetentionCustomer Data AnalysisCustomer Relationship Management

Preferred

AI Tools And Emerging Technologies

Stack & domain

Customer SuccessEnterprise Account ManagementConsultative ApproachProduct AdoptionCustomer EngagementData AnalysisAI ToolsEmerging TechnologiesCustomer FeedbackProduct RoadmapExecutive RelationshipsBusiness Performance ReviewsWorkshopsBest Known PracticesLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkStrategic ThinkingCustomer FocusConsultative Selling

About the role

Original posting from Asana

Our Customer Success team is committed to helping customers maximize the value of Asana as both a technology platform and a holistic approach to collaboration. From high touch to scalable success, our goal is to deepen the usage of the whole work graph, resulting in delivering unmatched value with scalability and consistency. We strive to help all of our customers, across countries, industries, and functions, get off on the right foot and continue to get the most value out of Asana over time.

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Customer Success Manager to help support and grow our largest and most strategic customers. As an Asana Enterprise CSM, you’ll guide the customer to deploy Asana successfully, adopt it widely across their organization, and ensure they continuously gain business value from our products and services. By engaging your customers using a consultative approach, you’ll position yourself as a preferred long-term strategic partner and serve as the trusted point of contact across their lifecycle. Equipped with the knowledge of what it takes for customers to succeed with Asana, you will serve as the voice of your customers cross-functionally, providing feedback to the Product team and broader business.

This role is based in our Tokyo office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Tuesday, Thursday and one additional day of choice, which may be determined by your team. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on the two other weekdays they are not in office. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

What you’ll achieve

Maintain ownership of a portfolio of strategic customers, weaving a web to develop new relationships while supporting existing teams to ultimately drive adoption and retention of Asana across their organization

Work with customers to understand their motivation, business drivers, strategic goals, and desired business outcomes; co-create joint customer impact plans that include success metrics, engagement and adoption strategy, timelines, communication, and plan to expand

Execute on all phases of the customer journey, including deployment design and execution, change management consulting, workflow design, business performance reviews, roadmap advisory, and renewal touch points

Develop and maintain an internal Champion Network across customer’s organization, facilitating workshops on best known practices

Analyze customer usage in internal data systems to identify, communicate, and act upon both risks and opportunities; proactively drive data-driven, account-focused campaigns to increase customer engagement and product adoption

Partner closely with Sales counterparts to build strategic account plans, nurture executive relationships, facilitate Executive Business Reviews, and identify expansion opportunities

Serve as the voice of your customers by surfacing key trends and insights back to our Product, Research, and business teams

Travel on-site up to 10% of the time, depending on customer needs

About you

Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making

5+ years of experience in a Customer Success, Consulting, or Account Management role working with large, complex Enterprise-level accounts

Experience managing a book of high-value customer relationships with an ability to drive customer success and align within complex organizational structures, building trust with stakeholders from C-Suite Executives to day-to-day users

Customer-centric at your core with a devotion to ensuring customer success, adoption, and advocating for regional customer needs

Strong cross-functional collaborator with experience partnering with Account Executives or Partners to provide a high-quality, thoughtful customer experience

Self-motivated, proactive team player with a bias for action and ability to work effectively in an ambiguous, ever-changing environment

Driven, process-oriented mindset with the ability to effectively balance competing priorities and make decisions that best support the customer, team, and Asana

Strong understanding of the Japanese market

Fluency in Japanese is required; proficiency in English is preferred

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

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About us

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Source: Asana careers

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