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As a Customer Success Strategist at Rackspace, your role is pivotal in managing and enhancing relationships with a dedicated portfolio of customers. Your responsibilities include ensuring effective service delivery, managing escalations, and consistently exceeding customer expectations. By identifying opportunities to expand existing accounts and secure new business, you will drive growth and manage the full sales cycle from lead to close. Your deep understanding of customer needs and strategies will enable you to provide tailored product solutions, contributing to Rackspace's transformation and growth. To succeed in this role, you must have a passion for customer interaction, the ability to quickly build rapport, and a talent for identifying opportunities to delight customers. Strong problem-solving skills, effective communication and negotiation abilities, and solid commercial acumen are essential for excelling in this position. Your key responsibilities will include successfully guiding new customers through onboarding and training, serving as the primary point of contact for clients, overseeing project execution, providing proactive support, promoting product value, identifying upselling opportunities, gathering customer feedback, monitoring performance metrics, and ensuring churn risk is identified and mitigated effectively. Additionally, you will be responsible for developing and implementing effective account strategies, managing and motivating a team, solving problems, addressing customer needs with empathy, explaining technical concepts to non-technical users, analyzing customer data, managing multiple customer accounts and projects concurrently, and negotiating contracts while managing client expectations. To thrive in this role, you must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong leadership abilities, strategic thinking capabilities, problem-solving aptitude, empathy towards customer needs, technical proficiency, analytical skills, project management experience, and negotiation proficiency. By leveraging these skills and qualifications, you will play a crucial role in driving customer success and fostering long-term relationships with clients at Rackspace.,