Chad Chappell
788 Harrison Street #822 : San Francisco, CA 94107 :-
linkedin.com/in/chadchappell/ :-
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
A seasoned SaaS and Omni-Channel Customer Success and Account/Program Director with 15+
years of progressive experience in the rapidly changing and dynamic digital marketing industry, I
understand both the agency and client side of digital marketing planning and execution with an
emphasis on email and social media.
EXPERIENCE
SparkPost – San Francisco, CA
Nov. 2017 – Present
Customer Success Manager
Launched and expanded CSM program to manage and cultivate 100+ mid-market and enterprise
customers leveraging the SparkPost email technology platform to power their marketing and
transactional email campaigns.
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Ongoing outreach to build stronger partnerships and stickiness
High level digital marketing consulting
High level email technology support including API and SMTP
High level deliverability support for all major ISPs
In-depth customer audit to determine health and churn risk
Salesforce – San Francisco, CA
Sept. 2015 – Nov. 2017
Regional Services Manager
Leadership position within Marketing Cloud overseeing service delivery teams for a portfolio of
enterprise clients including Sony, Electronic Arts, Hulu, and Uber
● Resource planning and oversight of campaign, technical and account management teams
to align with clients’ service needs
● Lead services renewal processes generating $7+ million in annual revenue
● Oversee revenue budget margins and contract change management required to
maximize resource allocation utilization
● Understand clients’ business and digital marketing strategies to help prescribe appropriate
service offerings
● Assist business development teams with upsell opportunities
Shoutlet (Now Spredfast) – San Francisco, CA
April 2014 – Sept. 2015
Account Director – Customer Success
Portfolio owner of key clients including Williams-Sonoma, Hot Topic, 24 Hour Fitness, and
Eddie Bauer -- responsible for driving success and adoption of the Shoutlet platform.
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Worked with clients to set social business KPI goals; tracks and communicates progress
Led regular status calls and strategy sessions tailored to an executive audience
Led internal and external account planning
Presented new opportunities, services opportunities and high-level roadmap vision
Responsible for uncovering potential risk and addressing escalations/issues
Recommended Shoutlet best practices and drove end-user adoption
StrongView (Now Selligent) – San Francisco, CA
April 2012 – April 2014
Program Director – Yahoo (4/13 – 4/14)
Management of all Yahoo email marketing programs and team of Program Managers to help
manage, execute and report on daily and weekly digital magazines, transactional/triggered
campaigns and ongoing service announcements.
● Created and maintained master project plans to monitor all Yahoo email marketing
campaigns
● Overall client relationship owner from a program management perspective
● Collaborated with Client Partner to meet all client’s creative, strategy and
technological needs
● Managed team of Program Managers to execute all campaigns within 99% of defined SLAs
● Collaborated on budget/resource allocation for additional StrongView products and
services
Account Director – Customer Success (4/12 – 4/13)
Managed a portfolio of 100+ clients, including Yahoo, Visa, Ancestry.com, Ticketmaster, and
JibJab, generating $10+ million annually in business development.
● Oversaw and led contract negotiation and renewal process
● Oversaw and led RFP review and submission process with existing client base
● Drove incremental revenue with existing client base by identifying, presenting and
closing cross-sell and up-sell opportunities
● Managed team of Customer Success Managers assisting in day to day client relationships
● Project management of program implementations, software upgrades,
lifecycle-programs and creative development opportunities
Yesmail/Infogroup – Atlanta, GA
Feb 2008 – Sept 2011
Account Director
Management of interactive marketing campaigns to include all aspects of development and reporting
for several Fortune 500 clients including AT&T, Darden Restaurant Group, Coca- Cola and SunTrust
● Onboarding, management and mentoring of full service Customer Success team
● Instrumental in opening new Atlanta office to better assist Southeast client-base
● Generated and maintained 3+ million in revenue per year
● Assisted with business development and engineering teams to sell, launch and integrate new
customers on the Yesmail platform from both a customer success and data implementation
perspective
● Instrumental in developing successful triggered lifecycle programs
● Developed and presented quarterly reviews
● Provided best practices and assistance with social media integration
● Worked with engineering teams and clients to gather business requirements used to
develop preference centers and other web services projects
● Worked with media services teams and clients to offer database growth options most
suitable for campaign and overall interactive marketing initiatives
EDUCATION:
Art Institute of Colorado, B.A. Multimedia