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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.

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