Episode description

Building your initial Customer Success team can be challenging and time consuming without understanding how to properly manage the process. This week on the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast, we are joined by Allison Pickens, the VP of Customer Success and Business Operations at Gainsight, who sheds some light on exactly how she setup and manages the Customer Success team at Gainsight. For those of you that don't know, Gainsight provides a Customer Success software solution and also manages a community of Customer Success leaders.

Today, Allison spoke with us about all the do’s and don’ts of establishing a customer success team. In the episode, we cover how to define CS, when to create a customer success team, how to manage your first hire, and even some common pitfalls to look out for. We also discuss the goals of CS and how it should fit into a company to maximize its positive impact.

We hope you enjoy learning about “Building your Initial Customer Success Team”. For even more information on Customer Success, visit Allison's blog where she posts weekly on the topic!