About the Job
As a Lean Customer Success Manager, your primary responsibility is guiding our customers through their digital journey with Lean. This pivotal role ensures seamless collaboration within Lean's teams to consistently deliver exceptional outcomes for our customers. You'll act as a crucial partner to our customers, drawing on your expertise in delivery, transformations, and facilitating their progression through various stages of adopting Lean solutions. By guiding them through operational, educational, and governance aspects, you'll pave the way for a successful Lean journey.
Who are we
Lean enables companies to seamlessly connect to their users’ bank accounts to initiate real-time payments and retrieve their account information. Our products have garnered the trust of leading companies and enabled them to deliver powerful experiences when connected with a user’s bank account, allowing users to perform prudent financial planning, get better rates on loans, transfer money to friends, and more, without compromising on privacy or security.
Some of Lean’s clients include the likes of Tabby, Nayifat, Tamam, Circlys, and many more, making it the region’s most valuable Open Banking platform. The company has now processed over a billion dollars, and its products are also connected with hundreds of thousands of accounts. Lean envisions a fully inclusive financial ecosystem that serves everyone, no matter where they bank or live in the MENA region.
Responsibilities
In this role, you'll interface with customers, Lean’s leadership, and various core account teams—Sales, Support, Implementation, and Product teams. Your focus will be on strategizing and supporting customers' adoption plans, translating strategic initiatives into actionable steps aligned with their key milestones.
At Lean, we foster ambitious thinking and encourage ownership of customer challenges. Your role extends beyond delivering top-notch engagements and solutions; it involves proactively addressing customer challenges through innovative ideas and strategies.
Successful candidates will exhibit a strong delivery, data-driven, and strategic mindset. Attention to detail, excellent problem-solving abilities, and exemplary communication skills—both at executive and project team levels—are essential. As a peer leader, your ability to gain stakeholder buy-in, negotiate, and drive teams will be pivotal. Leveraging your enterprise experience and operational excellence, you'll influence decisions, offer insights, and contribute to secure, robust solutions.
Minimum Qualifications
Extensive experience in a customer-facing role, engaging with customer executives, technologists and/or partners to solve business’ problems.
Proven track record of building and cultivating relationships with internal and external stakeholders driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow-through.
Experience leading digital transformation programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion.
Proven track record of developing customers’ strategies with multi-phase execution and delivery: planning, opportunity qualification and creation, stakeholder and executive communication, needs analysis, value engineering, engagements, opportunity management and negotiation.
Demonstrated success identifying business opportunities for clients and increasing adoption and utilization of company products.
Data Manipulation: Ability to digest and manipulate data sets by use of pivot tables, lookups and compound formulas.
Data Analysis: Analytical problem-solving ability. Uses data analysis, reporting and forecasting to guide business decisions.
Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is desired and ambiguity is the norm.
Strong organizational and troubleshooting skills with attention to details
Desired Qualifications
NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!
Why Join us?
Our products have received resoundingly positive feedback from developers and customers alike, with Sequoia leading its $33 million Series A round, marking its first in the GCC. Yet, this is just the beginning. We're working tirelessly to expand our coverage across the region while further deepening the value we provide to our stakeholders. To that end, we're always on the lookout for talented, driven, and entrepreneurial candidates to join us in our mission of enabling the next generation of financial innovation. If you're motivated by solving hard problems and leaving a lasting legacy while you're at it, Lean's where you need to be.
Not only do we offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, and flexible office hours, but we also insist that every member of the team hold a meaningful equity stake in the business to ensure long-term alignment. We'd love you to join us for this journey!
Lean is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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