Senior Manager, Customer Success Management - Enterprise US East/EMEA
Chainguard · United States · 1 wk ago
RemoteRemoteCustomer ServiceFull-time
The role, in a nutshell
As a leader within the Customer Success organization, this role will partner closely with cross-functional teams to support and scale the CSM function. The ideal candidate brings strong people management skills, experience operating in high-volume, scaled customer environments, and a focus on driving efficient, data-informed customer engagement, retention, and growth strategies.
What you’ll do
- Leads, mentors, and develops a team of CSMs supporting Enterprise customers
- Fosters a collaborative, high-performance, and customer-centric culture
- Provides coaching, performance management, and career development support
- Drives accountability through clear goals, metrics, and regular feedback
- Partners with Customer Success and cross-functional leaders to define segment-specific strategies
- Executes programs tailored to Enterprise customer needs
- Operationalizes engagement models and ensures consistency in customer journeys while adapting for segment nuances
- Maintains visibility into adoption, health scores, and engagement metrics across the portfolio
- Guides the team in identifying churn risks and expansion opportunities
- Supports proactive outreach and intervention based on data insights
- Leads account reviews and leverages segment-level insights to improve outcomes
- Ensures strong stakeholder relationships across Enterprise accounts
- Delivers consistent value through interactions
- Captures and synthesizes customer feedback to inform internal teams
- Acts as the voice of the customer to influence product and go-to-market strategy
- Collaborates with Sales, Product, and Marketing to drive adoption and expansion
- Supports renewal strategies and improves retention outcomes across segments
- Leverages data to contribute to accurate forecasting and pipeline visibility
- Identifies and scales growth opportunities within the Enterprise base
- Implements and refines processes that enable scale and efficiency
- Improves team productivity through tooling, automation, and best practices
- Standardizes workflows and reporting for consistency and visibility
- Maintains awareness of industry trends and evolves engagement strategies accordingly
What we're looking for
- 4+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or related fields
- Prior people management experience with a track record of developing high-performing teams
- Experience supporting Enterprise or high-ARR customer segments
- Experience with high-touch customer success models
- Background in Cybersecurity, DevOps, or a related technical domain preferred
- Strong operational mindset with experience building or optimizing processes
- Proven ability to drive retention and growth in a metrics-driven environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills across diverse audiences
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; advanced degree preferred
About Us
We live and breathe our company values:
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!)
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.