Customer Success Manager

We are looking for a Customer Success Manager (CSM) to ensure high-value customers achieve a significant return on their investment with our platform. The CSM will serve as an extension of the customer's workforce and a trusted advisor, providing guidance and advice to customer organizations.

Your Impact

• Serve as the single point of customer accountability responsible for the delivery of all Signature deliverables, the overall customer experience, and renewal and expansion.
• Coordinate all deliverables the customer is entitled to, overseeing the experience throughout the Signature lifecycle.
• Apply the correct processes to address customer needs and ensure value is delivered through the Signature offer.
• Successfully align with and manage both Business and Technical Stakeholders, focusing on aligning Business Value and Technical Goals to the Signature offer.
• Prioritize the most urgent work activities, organize tasks to avoid missing key steps, and create basic plans to focus time, taking responsibility for assigned tasks.
• Use internal resources to increase effectiveness and rely on managers or mentors for guidance on priority problems.
• Conduct enablement sessions on opportunity and case management, forecasting, pipeline hygiene, knowledge creation, and omni-channel routing.
• Share best practices for sales and service process optimization, data quality, and customer experience.

Strategic Advisory and Stakeholder Management

• Drive adoption of Sales and Service Cloud features with reps, agents, managers, supervisors, and ops teams.
• Track usage metrics (opportunity updates, activity logging, forecast submissions, report usage, case resolution times, knowledge article usage, channel adoption, and CSAT scores).
• Develop and maintain strong relationships at key stakeholder levels, including cultivating executive-level relationships within customer IT and business leadership.
• Act as a trusted advisor by gaining trust through mutual goals, understanding the customer’s business model, and applying proven solutions to their problems.
• Solidify partnership commitments and drive innovation aligned with customers' business challenges.
• Increase customer engagement with products and services and identify major political barriers to customer success.
• Partner with more experienced team members to solve complex problems and develop strategic success plans when needed.
• Conduct quarterly reviews of feature usage to drive adoption of tools like Journey Builder or Commerce Promotions, ensuring platform stability and performance.
• Identify underutilization of contracted entitlements (e.g., messaging volume or GMV tiers) and align platform features with customer priorities to increase throughput.

Technical Health, Adoption, and Risk Management

• AI Literacy: Proficiency in using AI agents to automate routine tasks such as meeting summaries, QBR data collection, and initial health monitoring.
• Prompt Engineering Basics: Ability to use natural-language commands to guide AI agents in retrieving accurate customer data and generating first drafts of success plans.
• AI Engagement Monitoring: Using AI-driven sentiment and intent analysis to flag early customer concerns for human intervention.
• Collaborative Learning: Actively seeking out "Agentblazer" training and certifications to stay current on autonomous agent capabilities.
• Learning & Development: Apply product knowledge and expertise to address technical concerns, use this knowledge to ask effective diagnosis questions, and align platform features with customer priorities and roadmaps.
• Proactively monitor and conduct quarterly reviews, identify trends, and provide tailored release recommendations to ensure stability, performance, and feature enhancement.
• Serve as the primary interface for major incidents (e.g., checkout failures or email deliverability drops) to protect peak revenue.
• Forge strong multidisciplinary relationships with Sales, Engineering, and Product Management to lead and coordinate customer relationships for success and revenue opportunities.
• Form a clear plan for client engagements, communicate clearly and proactively with collaborators, and keep the customer goal central to decision-making.
• Escalate complex automation, data model, routing, or integration questions to technical resources.

Minimum Requirements

• Experienced business professional, preferably with 5+ years of relevant industry expertise in Customer Success, SaaS platform use, or related fields.
• Strong consulting skills and demonstrated ability to drive business value, facilitate discussions, handle objections, and influence C-level conversations.
• Possess industry-relevant expertise and begin honing skills in a relevant functional area. Should understand the broad impact of the industry on the customer’s business.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical issues to diverse audiences and the ability to translate technical concepts into business terms.
• Actively seek out relevant learning activities, approach obstacles as growth opportunities, and seek experienced mentors to accelerate personal development.

Cloud/Platform Requirements included:

• 3-4 years experience with deep Salesforce Service Cloud expertise.
• Knowledge of advanced Service Cloud features: Omni-Channel, Service Cloud Voice, Digital Engagement (messaging, chat), Field Service Lightning.

Preferred Requirements

• Service Cloud Consultant certifications.
• Salesforce Admin + Service Cloud Consultant certification.
• Data Cloud experience/certification.
• Additional Salesforce product certifications are a plus (AI Associate, Administrator, Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, Data 360 Specialist, Agentblazer).
• Understanding of Service Cloud integrates with telephony, chat, messaging, and self-service portals.
• Understanding of Einstein AI for Service (case routing, chatbots, predictive service).
• Prior team-lead, mentor, or management experience.

Benefits

• Time off programs
• Medical, dental, vision
• Mental health support
• Paid parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Employee stock purchasing program