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The Path Beyond CSM

Gainsight

In Gainsight’s book, The Customer Success Professional’s Handbook, the authors shared the essential skills that every CS professional should possess. While it requires more of a technical background, as a CSM, you come with the perspective of knowing the customer’s needs and goals. You can better advise on valid customer pain points.

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Three Superpowers of a Product Manager

Mind the Product

Write a Handbook. This should not be confused with technical documentation. For a complete handbook on how to use a certain software product we use Wikipedia’s open source MediaWiki to create our own company Wiki as a knowledge base accessible to anyone within the company. Documentation Powers.

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Lessons from GitLab: Implementing Customer Success Operations At Scale

Gainsight

Finally, GitLab is a “handbook-first” company with a company-wide commitment to clear documentation and transparency – not only within the company but publicly. Customer Success Vision + Priorities . Jeff is the Senior Manager of Customer Success Operations. . Operational reporting. Systems enablement.