Valentina Ricupero

Customer Success | SaaS | Customer Experience | Managing change

Zurich, Switzerland (+01:00 UTC) English, Italian, Spanish, Germanfrom Milan, Italy
Usually responds in 23 hours
$150 / hour
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15 min30 min
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Bio

14 years’ experience in customer experience strategy, digital products and sales. I helped dozens of executives and founders to map their customer journey, create customer onboarding, increase CLV, define KPIs and OKRs, prototype ideas, products, processes and increase team performance. I am a strategic thinker with a bias for action. Entrepreneur, who learned to balance speed, scalability and limited resources. Built and scaled enterprise Customer Success in a startup unicorn. IBM and Kickstart Innovation Alumni. I am an investor and an advisor to tech-startups in Europe and the US. My mission is to help individuals make good decisions fast, asking them questions no one asked before. I apply my agile skillset to provide tools that help people prioritize, stay focused and deliver value to customers without burning out. I believe there is power in diversity and I help leaders to bring out the best in their team to deliver their shared vision. I help teams to build a prototype mindset that allows them to be brave and evolve their processes while feeling confident and learning. My areas of expertise are: #Tech-startups #CustomerSuccess #CustomerJourney #CustomerOnboarding #CustomerStrategy #BusinessStrategy #Leadership #High-performanceTeams #Innovation #Prototyping #DesignThinking More about my background: * I held leadership roles ranging from Territory Sales manager to Innovation and Customer Success leader in corporates and startups. * I lived and worked in Italy, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland. * I led SaaS and software integration projects in +20 countries and managed customers across industries like banking, retail, manufacturing, public sector, hospitality and healthcare. My global customers portfolio included SME customers as well as customers with over 20 billion US dollars revenue. * As a certified agile leader I leverage my agile skillset to support founders build and grow high-performance teams. * One of the teams I led reached over 250’000 customers, validated 5 prototypes and built a viable business plan in less than 4 months. * Since 2015 I am an active member of the international startup community, where I continuously expand my knowledge about Design Thinking, Design Sprints and prototyping. * In my previous roles, I learned about developing business cases at IBM, about C-level communication at Oracle, business model prototyping at Migros and most recently about Customer Success at the Swiss-based scale-up unicorn, Beekeeper AG.

Expertise


  • Building a team

    I have built startup teams at Kickstart and Beekeeper AG (3-7 people). I certified as an agile leader and scrum master, which helped me to increase my team performance. 👉 Mentoring for leaders 💡Increase focus to maximize limited resources 🧩 Build high-performance teams 💝 Become the leader that your team need.

  • Customer success

    🚀Customer Success (CS) for startups⚡️Build a powerful customer onboarding experience🎢 Keep customer engagement and increase Customer Lifetime Value ❌ Reduce churn. Should I outsource my customer support? Which tools should I implement? How can I increase customer engagement after onboarding? After facing these challenges as a Head of Customer Success, today I support tech-startups to build and scale their CS processes and onboard customers faster and better.

  • Idea validation

    I have organized and led Design Sprints for tech-startups while working as Head of Customer Success as well as as a consultant. The team (around 5-6 people) went from problem to prototype and testing in 3 days. I also created and led Innovation weekends for groups up to 10 teams. Participants were Master candidates of the University of Zurich and industry partners such as Siemens and Accenture.

Toolkit


  • Asana logo

    Asana

    11 years of experience

    Product development team collaboration. Kanban board for tasks overview and project management for prototyping experiments. Set up and used with a team of 7, remotely distributed.

  • Hotjar logo

    Hotjar

    11 years of experience

    Create heatmaps for product testing and prototyping. Tested 4 different online products and iterate based on heatmaps insights. Test assumptions and specific actions that we wanted to trigger e.g. buy, order now, etc..

  • Hubspot logo

    Hubspot

    7 years of experience

    CRM for sales and customer success. Restructuring the customer overview, sales stages and account information to increase alignment between sales and customer success. Enable teams to quickly access meaningful customer information before calls.

  • Intercom logo

    Intercom

    9 years of experience

    Chat with customers and admins. First level support. Support our paying customers in case of questions about the product and for feature requests. Technical support in case of bugs.

  • JIRA logo

    JIRA

    12 years of experience

    Create kanban for collaboration across engineering, product, customer success and support teams. Bugs Reporting. Product roadmap and product development.

  • Looker logo

    Looker

    8 years of experience

    Visualize dashboards for reporting and forecasting. Use dashboard to identify patterns and risks and prepare customer business reviews. Share dashboards with customers to provide insights to support their strategy.

  • Salesforce logo

    Salesforce

    13 years of experience

    Account management for sales and customer success (CS). Leverage Salesforce for customer onboarding and to monitor CLV. Create tasks and implement Customer Success onboarding process.

  • Zapier logo

    Zapier

    8 years of experience

    Integration with our main product to enhance capabilities and increase automation e.g. create automated chat response, google sheets file, trigger actions such as chat, post creation at a specific point in time.

  • Zoho logo

    Zoho

    9 years of experience

    Project Management. Customer Onboarding and expansion strategy. Visualize step-by-step process to onboard customers including technical requirement and integrations.

Industries


  • SaaS

    Experience selling SaaS solutions to Enterprise Customers in Banking and Public Sector. Customer Success experience to support customers in various industries implementing SasS communication app. Industries: hospitality, retail, manufacturing, travel. Create and lead workshops to help customer going through digital transformation.

  • SaaS

    Account management, sales, and customer success for SME and Enterprise customers. Focus: software technologies, applications integration, SaaS. Industries: Retail, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Banking, Public Sector.

  • Nutrition

    Digital Innovation & Nutrition sector. Establishing and leading a cross-functional team of tech and business specialists. Translating the project plan into a lean startup process to save time and resources including: Ideation, Prototyping, Testing and MVP. Developing a project team into an agile scrum team and coaching team members. Create company brand. Pitch solution to investors.

Experience

  • Valentina Ricupero | Business Consulting

    Founder & CEO
    valentinaricupero.com

    What: Customer Success & Sales strategy. Build high-performance teams. Customer journey. Who: I support tech startups, scaleups, founders and leaders. How: I use agile and innovation frameworks to create tangible results in a few days/ weeks. Some project examples are: create a scalable customer onboarding process, identify gaps and opportunities in your customers journey, learn how to grow your team's potential. Why: startups and leaders need to maximize the value of their limited resources to grow their business.

    SaaSB2BFinTechHealthTechBlockchainArtificial IntelligenceE-CommerceTravelTech
  • Beekeeper AG

    Head of Customer Success
    beekeeper.io/

    Beekeeper is one of the Swiss unicorns. Beekeeper is a mobile-first communication platform that uses real-time messaging and customised streams to reach every shift, location, and language. As Head of Customer Success, Valentina leveraged her leadership experience to help grow and develop the Customer Success Team. On a daily basis, Valentina and her team inspired and guided customers to maximize the impact of the app in their organization. Before that, as a Strategic Customer Success Manager, Valentina helped enterprise customers throughout each phase of their journey: from defining their strategy and goals to planning the technical implementation and measuring business impact. Other responsibilities: coach team members, establish and improve processes, increase scalability and agility.

    SaaSB2B
  • Migros Industries

    Innovation Leader

    Digital Innovation & Nutrition sector. Establishing and leading a cross-functional team of tech and business specialists that also performs when working remotely. Translating the project plan into a lean startup process to save time and resources including: Ideation, Prototyping, Testing and MVP. Developing a project team into an agile scrum team and coaching team members. Changing the product oriented scope into a customer focused approach.

    HealthTech
  • Kickstart Innovation

    Intrapreneurs Team Leader
    kickstart-innovation.com/

    Lead the team who participated in the startup innovation and acceleration program. Create company brand. Pitch solution to investors.

    HealthTech
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