Senior Customer Success Manager
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Description
You will own a portfolio of B2B customers and guide them through implementation, adoption, renewal, and expansion. You will build account plans, manage day-to-day communication, coordinate technical partners, track commitments, identify risks, and prepare renewals. You will also improve customer-success guidance, handoffs, onboarding practices, and playbooks.
Responsibilities
- Own relationships, account plans, customer communication, and commercial readiness for an assigned customer portfolio
- Build implementation and account plans with milestones, owners, dependencies, and decision dates
- Coordinate onboarding with Sales and Customer Engineering
- Manage dependable customer communication and set clear next updates
- Drive adoption by identifying stalled implementations, weak engagement, and unrealized use cases
- Prioritize work across accounts based on customer impact, revenue, growth potential, urgency, and implementation complexity
- Coordinate technical work with Customer Engineering, Support, Product, and Engineering
- Prepare and execute renewals, including forecasting, recommendations, negotiation, and commercial approvals
- Identify qualified expansion opportunities and bring them to the appropriate commercial owner
- Maintain current account records covering objectives, implementation status, usage, sponsors, risks, commitments, and decisions
- Improve guidance, onboarding practices, adoption playbooks, and renewal playbooks
Requirements
- Experience independently managing a portfolio of B2B customers through implementation, adoption, and renewal
- Experience with APIs, AI, infrastructure, developer tools, or another technical product
- Commercial judgment connecting product performance, usage, customer economics, sponsorship, and business value to retention and expansion
- Technical fluency to understand integrations, gather evidence, and work credibly with engineers
- Strong follow-through across multiple accounts and internal teams
- Clear writing and sound judgment in difficult customer conversations
- Ability to prioritize competing demands, challenge ineffective solutions, and set realistic expectations
- Experience improving processes and establishing useful structure
