ELF+ Customer Success Manager
Posted 8 hours 39 minutes ago by Questel
We're looking for an enthusiastic and client-focused ELF+ Customer Success Manager to join our Equinox team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a technical mindset and a passion for working with clients to build a career in the Intellectual Property industry.
Client Relationship Ownership- Serve as the primary, named point of contact for a defined portfolio of ELF+ clients following system go-live.
- Build trusted, consultative relationships with key stakeholders at each client, including senior fee earners, IT leads, and heads of IP.
- Establish regular structured check ins and business reviews, ensuring clients never need to escalated simply to get an update.
- Proactively identify risk signals early and act before they become churn.
- Own the coordination and communication of all post go-live client issues, ensuring timely progress and resolution through the appropriate internal teams.
- Translate client problems for internal teams, distinguishing between configuration issues, product bugs, training gaps, and change requests, and ensuring the correct Equinox function is engaged.
- Proactively coordinate with internal stakeholders for updates and resolutions; hold the business accountable to client commitments.
- Maintain a live, transparent issues log for each account and provide regular written status updates to clients without waiting to be asked.
- Establish a proactive communication rhythm that is intended to make escalation unnecessary.
- Function as the escalation point for client concerns, de escalating effectively while driving urgent internal action.
- Coordinate with the Product team to ensure clients are informed ahead of platform updates, new features, and workflow changes that affect them.
- Be the internal voice of ELF+ clients. Collect and translate client feedback into clear, actionable recommendations for product and process improvement.
- Influence roadmap prioritisation and support processes.
- Support onboarding handover from the implementation team, ensuring a clean transition into steady-state account management.
- Proven experience in a customer success, account management, or client services role within a B2B SaaS or enterprise software environment.
- A track record of working with enterprise or professional services clients. Experience with large law firms is strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of Intellectual Property law and practice, especially patent, trademark, and design filing and prosecution processes.
- Prior hands on experience using or implementing an IP Management System (IPMS), preferably Equinox.
- Comfortable in technical conversations with Product, Development, and Integration teams, as well as client IT stakeholders.
- Experienced in triaging and managing complex, multi-stakeholder client issues through to resolution.
- Full time - permanent contract
- Flexible working hours, hybrid office/home working
- 25 days annual leave that increases with length of service
- An inclusive culture and international team: Offices in the USA, EMEA and APAC
- Best of both worlds: agility and growth with structured onboarding and continuous learning
- A friendly team of intelligent, tech y, creative and supportive people. We believe having fun is key to our wellbeing and our ability to produce high quality work.
Job location: UK - Leeds (hybrid)
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