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    Shaun Porcar

    Shaun Porcar

    Director, Customer Success @checkr. Fmr CoFounder @accomplice, Early @abstract, @jumpstart-automotive-media , @adify, @CoxDigitalSolutions. CalPoly, SLO Alumni

    Entrepreneur San Mateo California Polytechni...
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    Experience
    Checkr
    Checkr
    Director Customer Success 2022 - Present (over 4 years)
    Managed a team of exceptional Customer Success Managers focused on Checkr’s top 10 Named accounts including Lyft, Grubhub, DDI Spark Delivery (Walmart), Shipt, and IAC (Angi... more brands, Craftjack and Bluecrew) during a restructuring of the Customer Success organization.
    - Focused on expanding Checkr’s product footprint (120% NRR) while securing the renewal of over $30M in ACV. Developed transparency with executive and operational stakeholders to maintain optimal product consumption and forecast of report volume during turbulent market conditions for Checkr’s largest gig economy customers.
    - Implemented new value realization indicators to improve understanding of account health and the impact of fluctuations in the supply chain.
    - Successfully guided Delivery Drivers, Inc. (DDI) through an acquisition by Walmart. Led efforts to develop executive stakeholder relationships and improve DDI’s direct API integration with Checkr, unlocking a 300% increase in MoM revenue.
    Abstract
    Abstract
    Director Customer Success 2021 (10 months)
    - Developed and lead the newly formed Customer Success organization, contributing to improved retention of our core product, the launch of Abstract Notebooks, and the growth... more of our global customer base, which ultimately lead to an acquisition by Adobe in under 12 months.
    - Established and scaled programs for optimizing onboarding, renewals, and expansion. Implemented new forecasting to maximize Customer Success operating budget and capacity to support the shift in focus to Abstract’s new product, Notebooks.
    - Established executive alignment and led critical cross-functional operational improvements to optimize internal product feedback, improve post-sales communication, scale customer education and support frameworks, and advocate for new benefits to support employee well-being.

    Accomplishments:
    - Achieved over 95% retention while the design industry began to shift from Sketch to Figma.
    - Drove cross-sell and upsell for both Abstract’s products, Branches, and Notebooks, generating over $1.2M in annualized expansion revenue as a result of new proactive engagement tactics with customers and reseller partners.
    - Collaborated on the creation of a Design Partner Program and go-to-market for Notebooks leading to 150% increase in revenue QoQ and jumpstarting our pipeline post-launch.
    - Implemented a new onboarding, training, and coaching curriculum which reduced ramp time for senior enterprise and scaled Customer Success Managers by over 50% from previous quarters.

    Abstract is the design workflow management system that empowers design teams and stakeholders to seamlessly manage, version and collaborate.

    Skills: Strategic Planning · Customer Service · Strategy · Entrepreneurship · Digital Media · Sales · Start-ups · Analytics · Account Management · SaaS · Software as a Service (SaaS) · Enterprise Software · Leadership · Team Leadership · Management · Customer Success
    Run The World
    Run The World
    Head of Customer Success 2020 (3 months)
    - Built the Customer Success initiative from scratch to support hypergrowth on a global scale before the business pivoted away from B2B.
    - Worked closely with the leadership... more team and company advisors on new pricing, client services delivery model, training content, benchmarking, and staffing.
    - Established structured onboarding and training programs, advocated for customer-centric decision making throughout the organization, and started a Voice of the Customer program to strengthen alignment with product initiatives based on user behavior and feedback.

    Accomplishments
    - Lead the team to achieve record customer satisfaction in our first full quarter selling (NPS >50)
    - Maintained 95% pilot retention through the implementation of formal customer hand-off and onboarding practices.
    - Reorganized the operation and execution of the customer training practice and live event support to increase the team's ability to deliver services at a healthy margin while maintaining 100% on-time delivery.

    Run The World is a virtual events platform for experts, creators, community leaders, and organizations to host and monetize interactive online events. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Dreamers VC, and GGV Capital.
    Extole
    Extole
    Director of Customer Success 2018 - 2019 (about 1 year)
    - Led a team of senior enterprise and strategic customer success managers to support the rapidly expanding US and EU customer base.
    - Served a multi-faceted role focused... more on improving retention by driving adoption of the Extole platform and suite of marketing programs – coached the team on providing analysis, benchmarking campaign metrics, and delivering insights on best practices.
    - Created and implemented new proactive processes, playbooks, and dashboards to enhance the delivery of Extole’s marketing solutions, improve team accountability, and company-wide visibility into the health of our business.

    Accomplishments
    - Led the team to achieve a record retention improvement of 10% YoY in back to back quarters leading to the company's best retention year to date.
    - Improved cross-functional collaboration and personalized playbooks grew outcome-driven customer engagement by 400% annually and reduced support ticket resolution times by more than 40%.

    Extole helps brands acquire new customers at scale by rewarding existing customers.
    We are proud to power referral marketing programs for the world's best-known brands and to help challenger brands become the household names of tomorrow.
    iCharts
    iCharts
    Sr. Director Customer Success 2016 - 2018 (almost 2 years)
    - Led, coached, and mentored a team of veteran Customer Success Managers and Success Engineers supporting our global customer base.
    - Responsible for the strategy, processes,... more and tools to support rapid growth across all customer segments of our SaaS and Professional Services business from pre-sales through implementation, onboarding, and training, including technical support, expansion, and renewal.

    Accomplishments
    - Reduced new customer opt-outs (churn) by 23%, improved retention across our strategic customer segments by 50%, contributed to increased ACV of 200% and partner revenue by 70% year over year.
    - Defined and deployed new Enterprise implementation and training curriculums for our embedded BI platform, resulting in 30% reduction in required setup time and a 25% improvement in completion rate.
    - Created a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.


    iCharts is the leader in Collaborative Visual Intelligence for large-scale dynamic data sets in NetSuite and Google Cloud Platform. Our SaaS-based solutions empower people to rapidly create, distribute and collaborate via comprehensive dashboards, interactive reports, and intuitive charts. Data, insights, and intelligence can be rapidly shared across teams, in real-time, delivering knowledge and empowering decisions. Contact me to learn more!
    Accomplice
    Accomplice
    CoFounder, VP of Customer Success & Operations 2012 - 2016 (about 4 years)
    Recruited, developed, and managed a global team of over 30 people across customer success, support, engineering, and product. Built a collaborative customer-centric culture... more that retained key talent and rapidly iterate the Accomplice campaign management platform from concept to operating multi-channel campaigns for F500 clients in under 180 days. Oversaw the strategy, content, processes, and campaign operations for supporting Accomplice’s SaaS and professional services clients including – Live Nation, LUNA, Viacom’s BET, Wanderlust, Red Interactive, and Gustin. Led research, design and product-market fit for Accomplice’s enterprise platform; pioneering AI capabilities with efficient UX for automated cross-channel campaign creation, bid and budget management, real-time analytics, and team collaboration.

    Accomplishments
    - Helped clients achieve over 2500% RoAS, many averaging over 1000% through our proprietary platform and client services team. Campaign results driven by Accomplice averaged over 45% reduction in cost per app install and drove on average over 70% in net new traffic for our brand and agency customers. Proved that our platform saved customer Marketing and Ad operations teams 1000's of hours while setting up and managing complex multichannel ad campaigns.
    - Built the Customer Success team from the ground up which supported, represented, and prioritized customer needs and campaign goals consistently averaging over 90% revenue retention of Accomplice’s SaaS and professional services customers which ranged from SMB's to top F500 brands.
    - Created and executed first go-to-market strategy for securing regional and global advertisers leading to a 600% increase in annual revenue post-launch.
    - Contributed to fundraising activities which closed $2M+ in seed and $5M+ in Series-A funding led by WME|IMG.
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    I have over 15 years building and scaling high-performance customer-facing teams focused on driving customer health, satisfaction, and revenue growth. My hands-on approach and customer-centric leadership philosophy have contributed to over $400M in successful exits as an early member and Sales leader at Jumpstart Automotive Media (acquired by HFM), Strategic Account leader at Adify (acquired by Cox Media), and Customer Success leader at Abstract (acquired by Adobe).

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    Adobe Advertising Automotive Business Intelligence E-Commerce Enterprise Software Facebook Google Analytics Management Marketing Management Multimedia Oracle Outside Sales P&L Professional Services Recruiting Sales Salesforce Software SQL Wordpress ZenDesk SaaS Customer Success Customer Experience Technical & Customer Support Customer Retention Churn Mitigation Renewals Development/Management KPI's Team Lead Cross-Functional Team Leadership Project Leader Leadership Customer success management Client Relationship Development Client Services NetSuite best practices Knowledge Management Creative Problem Solving Services Account Manager Consulting Distribution Fraud Fraud Prevention Infrastructure Integrity Retail Retail Sales Strategic Initiatives Support Technical Support
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