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Dave Parfett's avatar

Hey CJ doesn’t the ratio break down if your NRR is below 100%

Typically we see ratios like ARR / Customer Success FTE and then how they are rewarded / KPI’d depends on expansion motion - normally we see them comped on GRR and not NRR unless they are enterprise account managers

But very interested to see benchmarks on

- ACV bands for named vs pooled customer success managers

- ARR/Customer Success FTE benchmarks

- calculating ROI and setting incentives for customer success managers

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CJ Gustafson's avatar

Yes it absolutely does. It would say there’s a more fundamental problem perhaps with your product.

I honestly think it also breaks down past a certain scale. If you are doing a billion in revenue and have NDR of 120%, you’re prob not investing $200m a year in CS

So I’d find this more useful for companies with NDR above 100% and below $100m in ARR

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Philip's avatar

What would you propose for NDR below 100%

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CJ Gustafson's avatar

Work on the product

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