To build a successful customer success team, focus on hiring product-savvy individuals and emphasize customer empathy and B2B experience.
Make onboarding a key KPI, monitor account health proactively, and aim for high net retention to drive success.
Utilize your product to accelerate time-to-value for customers and align CSMs' incentives with metrics like net retention and upsells.
Invest in relationships, make customer success a company-wide priority, measure key metrics, and start investing in customer success early on in the business.