Zendesk

Job Description

The Customer Success Strategy & Automation Team at Zendesk accelerates customer value, adoption, and retention by enabling the Customer Success organization to operate with consistency at global scale. We do this through tooling, automation, processes and enablement—all in service of our goal of delivering best-in-class customer experience.

We are seeking a Customer Success Strategy & Ops Manager to oversee and optimize our Customer Success technology stack, with a primary focus on Gong and Gainsight platforms. This role is pivotal in enhancing our customer engagement strategies, ensuring seamless integration between systems, and driving data-informed decisions to support our FY2025 objective of driving best-in-class GRR.

Responsibilities:

• Set the strategy for how we use Gainsight, document requirements, and work with our IT admins to execute on them
• Identify areas for improvement in our workflow and design solutions that drive efficiency for our CSMs and CS Leaders
• Design and implement automated workflows within Gainsight and Gong to support customer success initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align system processes with business objectives
• Create and maintain dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights into customer behavior, CSM skills, and areas of opportunity.
• Analyze data trends to identify opportunities for improving customer retention and satisfaction
• Build strong partnerships with CS Leadership to ensure alignment across initiatives
• Partner closely with Enablement to identify areas of opportunity for the CS Team and influence the roadmap
• Work with Enablement to develop training materials and live sessions for Customer Success teams on effectively using Gainsight and Gong
• Provide ongoing support to users, addressing questions and ensuring adherence to best practices

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in Customer Success Operations or a similar role, with hands-on experience managing Gainsight and Gong platforms
• Proven track record of implementing and optimizing customer success tools and processes
• Proficiency in configuring and administering Gainsight and Gong, including setting up integrations and automated workflows
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets and translate findings into actionable strategies
• Familiarity with CRM (Salesforce) and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
• Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines

This is a high-impact role at the intersection of technology and customer value. You’ll directly enable Zendesk’s Customer Success team to engage smarter, faster, and more proactively — helping us retain and grow our customer base in 2025 and beyond.

Where We Work

Zendesk is not your average tech company. We have all the stuff you’d expect - competitive pay, benefits, appealing offices, snacks, and more. We also have a culture deeply dedicated to enabling conversations and providing appreciative support. We help our staff keep work-life balance, from flexible hours to remote work, to the most dynamic parental leave plans on the market. Our Social Impact team is actively engaged in our community and enables us to invest thousands of hours with local community groups each year. We invest in diversity and inclusion so that our team reflects the diversity of the world around us. We have a whole crew dedicated to ensuring our workplace experience is top notch and welcoming for all.

Please note that anyone hired into this position must be physically located in and plan to work from Mexico City (CDMX) or Mexico State (Estado de Mexico).

Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.

Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to peopleandplaces@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.