Manager, Customer Success Strategic Accounts
About the Opportunity – Manager, Customer Success Strategic Accounts
About the Team:
What You’ll Do:
Lead, mentor, and set clear performance expectations for a team of CSMs, conducting regular evaluations and providing timely, constructive feedback.
Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, while challenging team members to grow their capabilities and capacity.
Recruit and hire talent aligned with our core values and business needs; support onboarding so new hires ramp effectively.
Run structured 1:1s with every CSM that inspect (not just review) the full book of business — escalations, OKR pacing, risk/cancellation forecasting, and renewal pipeline — coaching before taking ownership so CSMs build their own judgment.
Dedicates regular time to live or recorded call review (e.g., Gong), providing documented coaching on renewal discovery, negotiation, value/ROI framing, and objection handling.
Run weekly team meetings covering pipeline, wins, and best practices; audit CRM/CS platform data quality and coach on gaps.
Customer Relationship Management & Renewals
Manage executive-level relationships across High Touch and Strategic Accounts and personally lead or support renewal conversations on the most complex, high-risk, or highest-value accounts.
Guide CSMs on strategy, problem-solving, and relationship-building for their own accounts; navigate and advise on complex, multi-party or enterprise requests, escalating as needed.
Own the end-to-end renewals process: inspect each CSM's renewal book for on-pace early engagement, confirmed intent-to-renew, documented strategy, and flagged zero-activity accounts.
Ensure every renewal carries the standard price uplift position, with exceptions escalated for approval, and drive forecast discipline so churn/expansion fields reflect true expectations.
Coach the team on renewal strategy, negotiation, and objection handling; partner with Sales and Finance/Deal Desk to structure terms that protect and grow revenue.
Value Realization & Customer Voice
Inspect the team's value and adoption motion alongside renewals, ensuring every account has a live, outcome-based success plan with playbooks triggered on below-threshold accounts.
Hold the team accountable for multi-threaded relationships (documented power maps on top-tier accounts) and treat champion departures as risk triggers; build your own second-layer relationships on key accounts.
Own the team's voice-of-customer loop — timely NPS follow-up, documented detractor action plans, and recurring themes rolled up to senior leadership.
Own escalations to resolution within SLA, ensuring proper documentation and regular review of risk and sentiment data.
Strategy and Cross-Functional Support
Develop and execute strategic plans for the segment, owning account coverage strategy, territory design, and resource planning to maximize engagement, retention, and expansion.
Analyze book-of-business trends to guide focus areas and help the team build playbooks and success plans that drive health, adoption, retention, and expansion (upsell/cross-sell).
Collaborate with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Support leadership to align strategy and drive retention, expansion, and satisfaction across the segment.
Performance Monitoring and Reporting
Establish and operationalize KPIs, dashboards, and reporting to measure segment performance against retention and growth objectives.
Own segment-level results against topline outcomes (GRR, NRR, churn, uplift expansion, on-time renewal rate, forecast accuracy, multi-year renewal %, logo retention) and leading indicators (health score mix, NPS, adoption rate, business review completion).
Prepare regular reports for senior management on team achievements, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
Track team capacity and make justified recommendations when headcount needs surface.
Training and Development
Identify skill gaps and implement training/workshops to strengthen the team's account management, product knowledge, and communication skills.
Ensure the team completes required enablement on time and stays current on product and roadmap; maintain your own subject-matter expertise to coach credibly.
What You Bring:
Proven leadership experience in a high-growth, fast-paced SaaS environment
Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Customer Success or Account Management, with two of those being at the leadership level
Assertive, positive, and effective written and verbal communication with strong attention to detail.
Demonstrated ability to influence credibly at all levels of an organization, including executive and C-level.
Fast learner, able to understand and articulate new technologies and their value propositions.
Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while managing a high volume of customer interactions and team coaching.
We believe clarity builds trust, so we share the national pay range for this role: $120,000 - $150,000 per year (USD base salary). This range reflects the scope of the role across the U.S. and is informed by market data, internal equity, and the responsibilities of the position.
Your final offer will consider your unique skills, experience, and location. In addition to base salary, total compensation may include performance bonuses, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.
If you’d like more details about how compensation is determined or how benefits factor in, please get in touch. We’re committed to fair, transparent pay and want to make sure you have the information you need.
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