Shannon Crane Holsberry

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years in Customer Success leadership
  • Expert in driving SaaS customer retention
  • Proven track record in scaling teams and strategies
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Customer Success leader with extensive experience in B2B environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Customer SuccessLeadershipCoachingAccount Management

Other Skills

Team ManagementCSMRenewalsBusiness ReviewsCustomer SatisfactionBusiness DevelopmentStart-upsSocial Media MarketingCRMMarketingProject ManagementSales ProcessCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Project CoordinationWriting

About

Customer Success and Revenue leader with 15+ years building and scaling enterprise post-sales organizations in high-growth B2B SaaS, including supporting AI/ML-powered products and data-driven platforms. Proven org leadership across adoption, renewal and expansion motions, forecasting rigor, and executive engagement. Experienced across both consumption-based and seat-based pricing models, driving usage growth, renewals, and expansion through value realization and change management. Deep experience creating scalable CS operating systems (success planning, QBRs, health frameworks, playbooks) and partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Engineering to drive measurable retention and growth. Currently living in the best city in the world, San Francisco, CA :)

Experience

6sense

4 roles

VP of Customer Success - Upmarket

Promoted

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Leading our team of 50+ incredible leaders and outcomes-focused CSMs responsible for customer adoption, retention, and growth across our Upmarket customers (all customers above 300 employees)
Customer SuccessLeadershipTeam Management

Head of Customer Success - Strategic

Jun 2023Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Lead team of 25+ incredible leaders and outcomes-focused CSMs responsible for customer adoption, retention, and growth across our Strategic customers
CSMCoachingRenewalsBusiness ReviewsCustomer SatisfactionCustomer Success

Regional Vice President, Customer Success - Strategic Accounts (West)

Promoted

Feb 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • At 6sense, we transform the way companies create, manage, and convert pipeline to revenue. We are a platform powering the Rev Tech Revolution!
  • We are clearing the way for marketing, operations, and sales professionals to reach new heights of efficiency and success. We are solving a hard problem that delivers unquestionable, game-changing ROI (read; big deals and a path to get there).
  • Forrester and G2 Crowd have named 6sense as a leader in Predictive Marketing Analytics and ABM, and we have been named a Best Workplace by Inc Magazine for the third year in a row. Having recently raised $200M in Series E funding at a $5.2B valuation (backed by Blue Owl, MSD Partners, D1 Capital Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, B Capital Group, Franklin Templeton, and Harmony Partners), we are investing heavily in our product, our customers, and rapidly growing the customer success team on across the US. Join us!!
CSMCoachingRenewalsBusiness ReviewsCustomer SatisfactionCustomer Success

Director of Customer Success, Enterprise Accounts

Mar 2021Feb 2022 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • 6sense is an account-based engagement platform, which gives our customers insight into which buyers are in-market and at what buying stage. From there - sales, marketing, and rev ops can align, focus on the right accounts to target at the right time, and strategically tailor their messaging and engagement efforts with those buyers to ultimately drive more pipeline and revenue growth.
CSMCoachingRenewalsBusiness ReviewsCustomer SatisfactionCustomer Success

Checkr, inc.

3 roles

Director of Strategic Customer Success

Promoted

Sep 2019Mar 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Built and launched the Named Accounts CS motion; owned success and growth strategy for the On-Demand/Gig Economy segment (≈75% of Checkr’s ARR) supporting full product suite – Checkr AI Platform + APIs, Checkr Assess, Continuous Check
  • Led CSMs, managers, technical success, and project management, supporting Checkr’s largest $MM customers (gig customers who ran millions of background checks per year), driving adoption, retention, and expansion with executive stakeholders.
  • Ran segment operating rhythm: hiring/coaching, org design, forecasting, risk escalation, and trend analysis; surfaced expansion and innovation opportunities to executive leadership.
  • Delivered 138% of 2020 renewal + growth target. Consumption-based pricing model.
  • Partnered across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Implementations, and Sales to drive adoption and customer programs (CAB, NPS, GTM launches) and scale customer advocacy.
CSMCoachingRenewalsBusiness ReviewsCustomer SatisfactionCustomer Success

Manager of Enterprise Customer Success

Promoted

Dec 2018Sep 2019 · 9 mos

  • Hired and led a CSM team supporting Enterprise customers representing ~47% of annual revenue
  • Implemented structured customer journey and engagement model, shifting CS from reactive support to proactive business partnership.
  • Established first weekly CS forecast cadence for renewals/expansion and health visibility
  • Delivered $7M in CS-sourced upsell; delivered 100% renewal rate.
CSMCoachingRenewalsBusiness ReviewsCustomer SatisfactionCustomer Success

Enterprise Customer Success Manager

Feb 2018Dec 2018 · 10 mos

  • In this role, I partnered with and grew our largest and most strategic clients ($30M book of business). Through our partnership, I ensured they received as much value out of the Checkr offering as possible, which helped them achieve their aggressive hiring goals while balancing compliance, operational efficiencies, and the candidate experience.
  • In addition to helping our Checkr customers be successful, I helped transition and evolve the CS team to own the full post-sales process, including adoption, growth (new and existing products), and renewals.
  • Part of my time was spent working on internal cross-teams made up of colleagues/internal stakeholders from product, marketing, solutions, engineering, and customer success. We worked together on various product and customer initiatives tasked to drive future growth, our product roadmap, and brand awareness - I contributed in the form of a product operations manager, providing the voice of the customer and the voice of the candidate in these projects.
  • Checkr is disrupting the dormant background screening industry and building a global trust and safety platform. Since graduating Y-Combinator in 2014, Checkr’s product has shifted the on-demand economy. We are well-funded by top investors like T. Rowe Price, Accel, Y-Combinator, and Google Ventures, and already host an elite roster of customers and partners.
CSMRenewalsBusiness ReviewsCustomer SatisfactionCustomer SuccessAccount Management

Linkedin

2 roles

Senior Relationship Manager - Sales Solutions

Jan 2016Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • In this role, I worked with Sales, Marketing, and Operations leaders, Sales Reps, and Account Managers to help them harness the power and data of LinkedIn to generate more revenue and build stronger relationships with their prospects and customers.
  • My goal was to understand and align with their business priorities, create strategic account, adoption, growth, and renewal plans, execute tailored and scalable training, and help their teams realize social selling as a modern sales methodology.
  • This was an individual contributor hybrid role (responsible for account management, revenue retention, and growth), with a focus on Enterprise companies at different stages of maturity.
  • What kind of results do Sales Navigator users see?
  • 35% larger deal sizes
  • 5% higher win rates
  • 61% of revenue influenced
RenewalsBusiness ReviewsAccount ManagementCustomer Success

Senior Relationship Manager - Global Strategic Accounts

Jul 2013Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • When I joined LinkedIn, the Sales Solutions Team was brand new and a start-up at LinkedIn - Sales Navigator was not yet its own platform leveraged by thousands of sales teams that it is today, it was a higher level of Premium with TeamLink!
  • Our Global Strategic Account Team came together as we saw a huge opportunity for large, complex global organizations to leverage their own networks and LinkedIn through Sales Navigator, and they needed our help to get there.
  • I was a Growth Account Manager on our global team, tasked to help Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, and CSC to take Social Selling Programs with LinkedIn Sales Navigator that we had landed in the US, and expand their programs on a scalable, world-wide level so their reps could reach more decision makers through LinkedIn across all lines of business.
  • This was a hybrid role (responsible for account management, revenue retention, and growth), with aggressive land and expand goals.
  • Most notable win was grew Microsoft from 14 Sales Navigator licenses to 2500+ in just one year, which resulted in 141% annual quota achievement.
  • This was an incredible experience. I learned it takes many internal and external champions, and a big picture strategy to drive hundreds of teams and thousands of users to adopt a brand new tool and modern social selling methodology.
RenewalsBusiness ReviewsAccount ManagementCustomer Success

Clearslide

Account Manager, Growth, Team Lead

Jan 2012Jul 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Founding member of the Account Management team and employee #40. By the time I left to join LinkedIn, Clearslide had grown 5x. My time at ClearSlide was a challenging, invigorating, and an incredibly valuable learning experience. I managed, grew, and developed strong customer relationships, executed on strategic account plans, identified new business opportunities, reduced churn, and secured repeat revenue through renewals and upsells across hundreds of ClearSlide's early customers. I was given the opportunity to partner closely with our Account Executives in pre and post sales customer success activities to help grow the ClearSlide footprint at some of our largest prospects and customers using a land and expand model. While I was at ClearSlide, the AM team operated without a manager. I grew and lead our team, taking us from 2 to 8 Account Managers, co-wrote the AM process playbook, held weekly 1:1s with my teammates for mentoring and territory planning purposes, and acted as a representative for the team at monthly stand up deal reviews with our executive team.
RenewalsBusiness ReviewsAccount ManagementCustomer Success

Dynata

Project Manager, Client Services - Key Accounts

Oct 2009Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • At Dynata (formerly ResearchNow), I was a Project Manager and main point of contact for Key Account clients, specifically agencies dedicated to brand and communications market research for end clients such as Microsoft, American Express, Sony, and Travelers Insurance. Working between our clients and engineering team, I coordinated and conducted multiple online data-collection market research surveys from kickoff, implementation, QA, data analysis, delivery, and close.

Saveri & saveri, inc

Legal Assistant/Paralegal

Sep 2007Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Education

University of San Francisco

BA

Jan 2008Present

General Assembly

Data Analysis Circuit

Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem

Central European History and Literature

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