Junan Pang is the head of customer success at Slack, experienced in helping tech companies optimize their customer relationships and deliver world class customer experience. Drawn to a blend of technology and business, Junan entered the software industry working at Accenture, later transitioning into customer success roles. During his tenure at Optimizely, he led multiple customer success teams and founded the San Francisco Customer Success Meetup. Despite initial setbacks, his faith in the unique customer success community drove him to persist in organizing meetups. Junan's key focus is being proactive and strategic in customer success management, an approach he fosters to maximize value for Slack users.

• (01:07) Junan's Journey into the Software Industry
• (03:29) Junan's Journey at Optimizely
• (04:28) Challenges and Strategies in Scaling Teams
• (06:25) The Role of a Leader as a Customer Success Manager for the Team
• (10:03) Founding the San Francisco Customer Success Meetup
• (13:27) Current Role at Slack and the Importance of Customer Success
• (16:22) Spicy Takes on Customer Success
• (21:37) Peer Nomination and Rapid Fire Round

Stay tuned through the end of the show (21:37) to learn: 

• What Junan’s favorite custom Slack emoji is. 
• Who Junan thinks we should interview next.

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Junan Pang (LinkedIn) 

Sunny Manivannan (LinkedIn, Twitter) 

Learn more about the SF Customer Success Meetup on LinkedIn or on their site.  

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