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The Ultimate Chief Customer Officer (CCO) Job Description

Gainsight

The Chief Customer Officer (CCO) role is crucial for virtually every SaaS company. Hiring one moves Customer Success (CS) from a function to a company-wide strategy, offering a customer voice in the boardroom and a peer to your Sales and Product leaders.

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Chief Customer Officer in Manufacturing & Distribution With Anne Herman – CB47

Customer Bliss

Anne Herman is the Chief Customer Officer for MSA – The Safety Company, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of safety equipment. Anne is the third Chief Customer Officer for MSA. They needed to bring more of a customer voice to delivery/operations, so she undertook that role.

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Customer is King. Or is it?

Calabrio

Sales and marketing are busy attracting and signing new customers, but who’s nurturing those existing relationships? If customer experience is genuinely a top priority for the company, someone needs to lead the charge. That’s where the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) comes in. The rise of the CCO.

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Make Customer Delight About Delivering Value with Jon Herstein of Box

Customer Bliss

Customer delight is incredibly important, but it’s also insufficient,” says Jon Herstein , Chief Customer Officer at Box , a cloud content management company that serves about 90,000 customers. Delivering value is ultimately the key point of B2B customer success and delight. Click To Tweet.

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Is Your Company Serious About Customer Success? Here’s How to Find Out

Gainsight

It’s helpful to know if leadership cares only about sales and wants CS to make do with sales SaaS.”. Sometimes finding out if they’re walking the talk is as easy as asking a leader what their definition of a customer-centric company is and getting them to provide real-world examples of what they’ve done that makes them customer-centric. “I’d

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My Rock, My Story: How Airbnb Uses Customer Listening to Determine Goals

Customer Bliss

The following post is an excerpt from my book: Chief Customer Officer 2.0. These stories come from CCOs who have faced numerous challenges, yet persevered in pushing their metaphorical “rock up the hill” by uniting their leadership teams, working through challenges, and ultimately achieving success in doing so.

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Q&A: How Your Organization Can Achieve a Customer-First Transformation

ChurnZero

To understand the why and how behind putting the customer at the center of your business, we hosted a webinar with two founding team members of customer-first organizations: ChurnZero’s Chief Customer Officer Abby Hammer and inSided’s CEO/Co-Founder Robin van Lieshout. They become active on our own community.