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Customer Experience Manager

United StatesCustomer SuccessHybrid3+ YOE
Summary

Leads post-sale customer journey from onboarding to retention and renewals. Acts as trusted advisor and commercial owner, building strategic relationships and driving account growth through AI-driven optimization and data analysis.

About the role

Key Responsibilities

Customer Lifecycle & Success

  • Manage customer engagement from onboarding through the entire customer lifecycle
  • Be a Trusted Advisor to customers
  • Work with account teams to plan and execute long-term Success Plans with largest customers to facilitate retention and growth via product and new business unit expansion
  • Maintain a deep understanding of solutions and present to customers about the most relevant features/functionality for their specific business needs
  • Own or be an active participant in customer touch points including Business Value Justification meetings, Business Reviews, Renewal Meetings, and Executive Business Reviews
  • Demonstrate how customer engagement directly impacts growth and adoption of solutions

Commercial & Renewals

  • Act as the commercial owner and driver of renewal including maintaining and reporting an accurate weekly forecast
  • Responsible for retention and growth of book of business, owning and maximizing renewal value
  • Negotiate and execute renewal contracts in accordance with customer objectives
  • Analyze data and leverage tools to identify selling opportunities and business value
  • Drive strong alignment with the Sales team, contributing to team forecasting, planning, and targets

Cross-Functional & Operational Management

  • Develop and maintain long-term relationships with stakeholders in account portfolio
  • Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Systems Reliability Engineering, Marketing and other teams to resolve customer business issues
  • Manage customer feedback and product needs by providing feature requests to internal partner teams
  • Prioritize effectively to handle multiple deals at the same time
  • Up to 50% travel for customer visits

AI Competencies

  • Generative AI: Mastery of LLMs to rapidly draft renewal communications, synthesize quarterly review data, and prepare executive summaries
  • Data Analysis: Proficiency in leveraging AI analytics tools to parse customer usage metrics and highlight up-sell or cross-sell opportunities
  • Workflow Automation: Ability to build automations to synchronize CRM data, update weekly forecasts, and trigger lifecycle alerts
  • AI Problem Solving: View AI as a partner in solving tough problems

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Customer Success/Account Management role or Inside or Field sales
  • 2+ years relative industry experience, with experience in cloud security and/or performance industries preferred
  • Bachelor's degree and/or other professional qualification
  • Strong understanding of or willing to learn about computer networking and "how the internet works" with network security a plus
  • Experience with project management, account portfolio planning, Cloud implementation and prioritization
  • Expertise in SaaS retention and sales process and excellent knowledge of value driven sales
  • Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to creatively achieve resolutions
  • French or German language skills are highly preferred

Compensation & Benefits

  • Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. The estimated annual salary range includes the on-target incentive compensation that may be attained in this role under the Sales Compensation Plan
  • This role is eligible to participate in equity plan
  • Complete package of benefits and programs including flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
Skills
Customer SuccessAccount ManagementSaaS SalesRenewal ManagementForecastingCRMProject ManagementData AnalysisGenerative AILLMs