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“Improve the experience and everybody wins.”-Dharmesh Shah. I love digging into problems and solving customer pain points. I cherish seeing folks on my team grow and flourish. This is what makes me tick and I’ve been lucky to do both over 15+ years leading some amazing customer experience teams. My mission is to make the difference that gets a customer to go ‘WOW’ and fall and stay in love with a brand, in turn helping that business stand out and grow.Customer service was in my blood even as a teenager working in a clothes store. I diligently ensured everything was always folded in size order (it’s frustrating spending ages trying to find your size right!). I followed my calling holding customer-centric roles in support, onboarding, adoption, and growth. What I learned on my journey though, is it's not just about getting a customer from A to B, it’s about their experience on that journey. You can bring customers in the door but to build lasting relationships and grow your brand you must provide a great experience at every touchpoint. So, I’ve focused on bettering experiences across the journey like product learning and adoption, self-service, in-app help, and customer feedback. Here’s a little of what I’ve learned and my approach:Sometimes You Need To Color Outside The Lines Or Push The Envelope✸My managers say my tenacity is a strength. Colleagues tell me I'm forward-thinking and intuitive (could be living/breathing customers). I like the challenge of turning a no into a yes and taking calculated risks if a new strategy will make a positive impact. ✅Two such wins: Built the first Salesforce in-app chatbot leading to 100% ↑ in engagement MoM, 21% trial conversion rate. Pioneered a cross-functional in-app experiment strategy which saw a 25% ↑ in feature usage, 18X ↑ YoY in monthly learners.I Can Successfully Lead, Build, And Scale Teams. To Do Great Things I Need An Incredible Group Of People Behind Me Working As One✸To me the employee experience is equally vital to the customer one. My greatest compliment; is being told I’m one of the most caring managers to work for and I’ve inspired folks to push themselves, be their best, and grow.✅ Doing great things: At Salesforce we consistently exceeded targets averaging 3.72/4 CSAT, < 2hrs TTFR (Support), and 4.8/5 CSAT (Adoption).Interested in learning more? Let's connect!SKILLS: Customer Experience Methodology, Strategy, Execution | Customer Engagement, Success, Retention | Team Leadership, Building, Development | Cross-Functional Partnership | Data-Driven Insights, Metrics, Solutions
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Adoption Consultant, AdvisorExpand And Reach SolutionsSan Francisco, Ca, Us -
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Senior Director Digital Education, Adoption, Growth And Insights, Product ManagementSalesforce Aug 2021 - Apr 2023San Francisco Bay Area“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”-Winston Churchill. Change is a constant that I’ve learned to embrace. During 8+ years at Salesforce, I’ve had multiple roles, often concurrently, from manager to individual contributor, most recently as a PM focused on Service Cloud.My key remit in this role is cross-functional collaboration to drive product awareness, adoption, and growth, always with the customer experience in mind and the application of data insights.✸ Broke ground on brand-new digital in-app experiment strategy. Designed data-driven experiments end-to-end in close partnership with the Digital Growth team, to increase in-app learning and drive product usage. Successful experiment graduation led to a 25% increase in targeted feature usage, 18X increase YoY in monthly active learners and 20% YoY increase in reach.✸ Ideated and drove Monetization programs, in conjunction with Data Science, using data analysis to uncover new targeted pipeline for Sales Distribution leadership. Impact examples: generated $10-12M Pipe for Service add-on to Sales Cloud; one Sales BU closed < S1.1M in additional ACV.✸ Led key strategy to drive adoption and growth of Service automation. Proactively collaborated with Data Science to build maturity curve/journey, Product Marketing on internal/external growth strategy and Customer Success to create automation content and update all digital touchpoints.Product Manager: Starter Edition In-App Chatbot Experience✸ Led NLP chatbot strategy, winning buy-in from Executives, to create a new in-app digital touchpoint and help customers get started via a self-service out-of-the-box experience. ✸ Created product requirements document (PRD), 3 release roadmap and built first release designs for the internal components and architecture of the bot. ✸ Partnered with UX, Engineering, Business Technology and Product on Figma designs for chatbot in-app integration and behavior as well as implementation requirements. -
Senior Director Customer Experience (Cx)Salesforce Aug 2019 - Jan 2022San Francisco Bay AreaQuestioning the status quo led me to win buy-in from Executives to rethink our customer support strategy, pivot our service, ops and strategy teams to implement a CX methodology and bridge the gap between support and experience. We focused on desired outcomes, solving pain points, customer effort and satisfaction, driving time to value and business results.✸ Set the bar as the first team in the company to operationally adopt a CX methodology, acting as an innovation center and sharing actionable insights across Salesforce.✸ Created CX vision and strategy aligned with wider business objectives, defining roles and responsibilities. Aligned with cross-functional leaders to set and execute goals to drive strategy.✸ In charge of transforming the customer experience end-to-end (E2E) across journey phases, i1-1, digital and in-product touchpoints. Worked with multiple cross-functional teams to research, analyze and resolve customer pain points.✸ Led and trained 3 managers and 18 IC's to adapt, understand and drive new CX and self-service strategies.✸ Synthesized product pain points and led cross-functional efforts to prioritize roadmaps, iterate, and experiment on the right UX designs, and develop effective content; better access via a floating chat icon ignited chatbot usage 570%.✸ Designed digital experience via pre-and post-sale onboarding center, edition guidance tool, and prescriptive in-app onboarding framed by data research analysis to support customer experience, learning, and self-service strategies.✸ Led high-performing team to consistently exceed key performance targets; average 3.72/4 CSAT and < 2hrs TTFR (Support), 4.8/5 CSAT (Adoption).✸ Boosted self-service strategy to scale the business; added and ran a checkout getting started call option, built a chatbot to handle sales and set up queries leading to a 21% trial conversion rate.✸ Exceeded company-set great leader targets consistently; endorsed as a high-performing leader via annual survey. -
Director Support & Onboarding (Essentials Crm)Salesforce Feb 2019 - Aug 2019San Francisco, California, United StatesDirected two key business objectives, managing multiple roles and teams simultaneously. Navigating change, successfully drove the launch of an onboarding experience for the newly released Essentials CRM product, while continuing the end of life and customer migration process for the Desk.com product.✸ Built brand-new vision, strategy, team, programs, tools and procedures from the ground up that delivered an innovative 1-1 and self-service differentiated onboarding experience, helping drive rapid product growth; 10K new logos and $25M in ARR.✸ Oversaw a team of onboarding coaches that acted as a testbed for the wider company, delivering pre and post sales tech support in new ways and driving new programs and tools to enhance the customer experience.✸ Launched the first Salesforce in-app help and case submission tool in conjunction with Product, providing quick and easy access to assistance right in-product.✸ Built the first case interaction CSAT option to capture real-time customer feedback and a CSAT save process to quickly act on that feedback. Drove an increased response rate of <10% to >20%, a higher CSAT of 3.6/4 and was quickly adopted by Sales.✸ Partnered with Product, sharing VOC (voice of the customer) feedback, product CSAT scores and case data influencing product roadmaps and designs.✸ Collaborated with Marketing and Sales to drive ACV; collated success stories, created opportunities from customer interactions, built Slack workflows to quickly provide help. ✸ Drove operational efficiency via new tools and processes e.g. saved 5-6 hrs/week and improved no show rate 27% with scheduling tool, reduced missed chats by 85% with first Slack and live chat tool integration.✸ Fostered environment of team building, equality and volunteering, creating yearly goals; collectively achieved >500 volunteer hours, 128% to goal.✸ Ensured team had development plans and ongoing coaching to reach professional and personal goals, as well as annual training targets. -
Senior Director Global Technical Support & Scale ProgramsDesk.Com Aug 2019 - Mar 2020San Francisco Bay AreaDrove large-scale change with the first ever Salesforce full product end of life experience as Director and Sr. Director at Desk.com, the same time as delivering CX initiatives for Essentials CRM. Partnering with other Services managers, designed and delivered the complete E.O.L strategy for Desk from scratch. Oversaw 2 managers, 1 program manager, 3 scale customer success specialists and 10 support engineers globally.✸ Took on a Marketing and Sales function to retain customers, driving the benefits of migrating from Desk.com to Service Cloud and exceeding customer migration AOV targets; 112% to goal ($7.3M).✸ Worked cross-functionally with Legal, Product, Sales Ops, Marketing, Tech Comms and DevOps to ensure every aspect of product retirement was seamlessly catered for.✸ Owned the migration of 4000+ customers, researching, testing and building innovative scalable programs, virtual and digital content and assets to translate complex customer business needs; reached 1100+ users via 175+ virtual sessions alone.✸ Led the Technical Support and Scale Programs teams, overseeing 2 managers and an outsourced services team, delivering support for both Desk.com and Service Cloud.✸ Empowered my high-achieving team to remain motivated and moving forward through a challenging time, via mentorship and a commitment to a customer-first mindset, resulting in a 95% CSAT score. ✸ Initiated a new simplified 1-1 migration program, delivering 240+ implementations, and a personalized demo program which was over goal at 102%.✸ Executed and personally program managed the customer facing and internal communications strategy and plans for all digital and Marketing assets.✸ Analyzed migration rates and program engagement to determine headcount needs and the number of programs needed to reach migration goals. ✸ Oversaw the rapid transition of our entire support system and processes from Desk.com to Service Cloud in a few months, seamlessly handling all the challenges this entailed. -
Director Global Technical Support, Onboarding & Scale ProgramsDesk.Com Nov 2016 - Aug 2019San Francisco Bay AreaManaged global team of 15 in the US, EMEA and APAC responsible for 1-1 and self-service customer success, digital onboarding, and scale programs.✸ Transformed digital Help Center with a modern responsive design, improved navigation, search and CTA’s, complete review and update of all articles, new video and webinar library and guided journeys, optimized SEO and event promotion/sign-up to support Service Cloud migrations; grew page views 28%, and improved deflection by 21%.✸ Partnered with Product Management to build digital in-app walkthroughs for Admin use cases and initial onboarding set-up utilizing Pendo.✸ Created a digital onboarding program and online training materials for partners and customers including email nurture journeys, a one stop resource hub on the main Desk website and Trailhead trails.✸ Imagined new Success Community sharing educational content, best practices, tips and tricks and event information to drive customer success; grew user base to 1K in 6 months, adding to existing multi-channel community moderation support via Twitter and Facebook.✸ Instigated weekly top 10 Jira bug/UI prioritization process with Engineering addressing key issues 4x faster. ✸ Implemented custom Slack Bots, utilizing Heroku, to drive operational efficiency and team engagement e.g., service interruption swarming and handling, CSAT feedback and save process, article lookup and break coverage.✸ Built a central repository on Confluence for Support information and improved knowledge sharing, including daily updates and tips emailed via the site.✸ Created Hackathon events across our Services org to drive innovation, team building and learning, resulting in enhanced tools, processes and resources.✸ Setup a team building program, creating activities to improve teamwork and collaboration. -
Senior Manager Global Technical Support & Customer OnboardingDesk.Com Aug 2015 - Nov 2016San Francisco Bay Area -
Manager Global Technical SupportDesk.Com Jul 2014 - Aug 2015San Francisco Bay Area -
Global Director Of Corporate SupportWorkshare 2011 - 2013San Francisco Bay AreaDirect management of global support team based in London and San Francisco; supervising 20 employees, acting as first point of management contact for majority of global clients/partners and collaborating with global Sales team to assist with renewals/account management. • Ensured customer satisfaction of clients and partners, consistently reaching satisfaction ratings above 90%.• In charge of coaching, mentoring, monitoring and managing Technical Support and Customer Services teams to achieve defined and measurable targets, while ensuring employee satisfaction (above 80%).• Managed all aspects of the channel partner outsourced support program.• Worked effectively with other departments across the globe, building strong relationships to achieve common business goals and objectives; engaging in all aspects of product development lifecycle.• Represented customer’s perspective and acted as liaison between client and internal departments to coordinate and ensure efficient resolution of issues and high customer satisfaction.• Managed escalated service requests and ‘Fast Track’ bug fixes in conjunction with Engineering. • Prioritized bugs, consolidated feedback of issues & enhancement requests to product teams, submitted requirements for future releases and signed off product PRD’s.• Drove improvements to systems/processes from project proposal and planning through to testing and implementation. Identified and actioned areas where service and communication could be enhanced.• Utilized SalesForce CRM system effectively and identified case volume and root-issue trends, making recommendations to reduce inbound load, and drive those solutions through multiple departments.• Established and maintained team performance metrics, continued measurement of team against those metrics and completion of annual performance review program (setting team goals and objectives).• Displayed strong product knowledge and skills to mentor technical team when troubleshooting issues. -
Director Technical Support-AmericasWorkshare Technology 2008 - 2011San Francisco Bay AreaSenior position managing a wider gamut of support services and teams, supervising 10 employees in the Americas. Delivered worldwide projects for product improvement and development, online support presence, channel partner programs, and support administration & reporting. -
Technical Support Manager-AmericasWorkshare 2006 - 2008San Francisco Bay AreaPromoted to Support Manager, after demonstrating leadership skills as a TAM, and oversaw and ran the Americas Technical Support team. Specifically played a key role in the set-up of the new e-commerce store, online product development and the delivery of support services to online customers. -
Technical Account Manager-AmericasWorkshare Technology May 2005 - Sep 2006San Francisco Bay AreaActed as a dedicated resource to an assigned set of Platinum level customers in post and pre-sales capacity. Operated in collaborative business and technical partnership with Workshare’s most strategic accounts, including AMLAW 25/Fortune 500 companies, and managed every aspect of relationship. -
Customer Support RepresentativeWorkshare Technology Nov 2003 - May 2005London, United Kingdom And San FranciscoProvided technical support to an international client base (largely legal, financial and pharmaceutical industries) for Workshare’s entire software suite. -
Technical Support RepresentativeDemon Internet Apr 2002 - Nov 2003Southend On Sea, United KingdomProvided support to B2B and B2C customers; including set-up of connections/email accounts, FTP upload, and solving difficulties with network connections, routing, and sending/receiving of emails on both Windows and Mac platforms. -
Customer Service AgentSecuricor Omega Express Mar 2000 - Oct 2000London ColneyProvided support to business/private customers initially in the UK department, quickly moved up to the European section, then finally put in charge of Key Accounts. Had responsibility for the trial Internet collection service that was being introduced.
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Debbie Stone's current role is Adoption Consultant, Advisor.
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Debbie Stone attended University Of Hertfordshire, University Of Hertfordshire, Trailhead By Salesforce.
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