Sr. Customer Success Manager
Salesloft · USA
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The posting
Title: Customer Success Manager, Enterprise
Location: Remote- US
Clari + Salesloft are building the next era of enterprise revenue — one where teams make confident decisions powered by AI and real signals. By combining our scale, insights, and AI innovation, we’re building the industry’s first Predictive Revenue System , enabling humans and AI to work together to make smarter decisions and drive consistent growth.
With thousands of customers using our platforms every day, we have an unmatched view into how revenue is actually won — the Revenue Context that reveals what happens, when, and with what outcome. This gives us a unique opportunity to transform an entire category and set a new benchmark for how modern revenue teams operate.
Join us to help transform how companies around the world run revenue — and build the platform that will guide leading revenue teams into the future.
THE OPPORTUNITY
At Salesloft, our Senior Customer Success Manager will be pivotal to our company’s success. You will be a key member of our fast-growing and high-performing Customer Success Organization acting as the go-to resource for our valued customers.
On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for ensuring successful product adoption and retention of key customers in the business. Specifically, you will:
Build custom Mutual Success Plans to align our Salesloft strategy to the customer’s business objectives.
Effectively guide customers in how to prioritize next steps on a Mutual Success Plan, managing multiple points of contact with each customer.
Partner with internal teams on tasks and projects that impact the broader team.
Review trends in customer data and proactively identify focus areas.
Create impactful QBRs and prioritize data based on insight and the "so what" for each customer.
Identify unusual trends in the data and anticipate key follow-up questions from a customer.
Provide strategic guidance to customers around sales and sales engagement best practices for their use case. Champion industry best practices and challenge customers on their approach.
Lead customer-facing webinars and internal trainings around industry insights and recommendations.
Lead phone calls and on-site meetings with stakeholders (including C-Level), navigating both positive and more difficult conversations with ease.
In addition to working with amazing colleagues who exemplify our ‘team over self’ core value, you will also have the opportunity to build long-term, trusted relationships with key executives and influencers. You will own, drive, and affect change for your customers by having an obsessive focus on their outcomes.
Daily you’ll focus on driving customer adoption through strategy calls and customized business reviews at the executive level. The goal is to be the ultimate storyteller in showcasing the compelling impact on your customers' business made possible by their use of Salesloft.
Remember, you are the quarterback of the customer experience and you will have an opportunity to make a difference.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We are seeking an experienced customer-facing professional who will engage, retain, and drive our customers' understanding of Salesloft product offerings working strategically with sales, cs, and leadership (both internally and with the customer). You will be measured on the retention, expansion, and happiness index of a book of business (Salesloft’s customers).
If you’re looking for an opportunity to learn more, do more, and become more, then becoming a Senior Customer Success Manager is the career path for you!
THE TEAM
Our Salesloft’s Customer Success team is comprised of seasoned and up-and-coming account management professionals.
The Customer Success team consists of 30 some team members who develop and maintain a deep understanding of the customer’s business drives, goals, and steer activities to align with these initiatives.
They act as a liaison between internal teams to ensure customer needs are being met, partner with sales to define and achieve customers’ success criteria, and demonstrate ROI and ensure customers renew the Salesloft Product Suite.
We strive to ensure customer satisfaction through inspiring, educating/training, driving adoption, managing stakeholders, and influencing the customer.
THE SKILL SET
6+ years of experience in a Customer Success role
1+ years of experience using the Salesforce CRM. Must have an intermediate to expert knowledge of Salesforce CRM components such as leads, activities, contacts, opportunities, and reporting. (Salesforce Admin Certification is a plus!)
Previous experience in a SaaS/Technology company or fast-growing start-up preferred
Superb listening skills and the proven ability to dig deeper to uncover the customer’s true objectives
High level of empathy - it’s important for our CSMs to be a good person to peers and customers
You are a clear, confident, and compelling communicator — in writing, in conversation, and in front of an audience
You are extremely perceptive and highly emotionally intelligent, making you agile in adapting your executive presence and approach to any audience and personality
You are an expert project manager who ruthlessly prioritizes, manages stakeholder expectations, and ensures all key objectives and timelines are met
You are resourceful, scrappy, and creative — if a playbook doesn't exist yet, you go figure it out and build it for the whole team to use
You are confident in technical conversations — hearing “API” doesn't make you run and hide
WITHIN ONE MONTH, YOU’LL
Attend Salesloft’s New Hire Orientation, where you will learn our Salesloft story and understand what makes our “Lofters” unique
Join our 3-week Sales Bootcamp, where you will learn our software and all the skills necessary to set you up for success, allowing you to make an impact in the market quickly
Begin 1:1’s with your manager, understand your 30-60-90 day plan, meet & shadow current members of the Salesloft team, and delve into your territory
Set your OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) with your manager and develop an action plan to achieve them
Meet key partners in Account Management, Finance, Marketing, Executives, etc. - they will be key relationships for you throughout your deal cycle
Become demo certified
WITHIN THREE MONTHS, YOU’LL
Begin working with customers
Be Salesloft admin-certified
Be enrolled in our Salesloft PM certification program
Be a product expert and feel comfortable walking a customer through all aspects of the Salesloft platform
Have proficiency in both the Salesloft product capabilities as well as modern sales engagement best practices
WITHIN SIX MONTHS, YOU’LL
Be running with your customer success plans to encourage adoption & process optimization
Be able to show quantifiable ROI to customers in the form of success stories
Have a greater ability to understand deep technical aspects of a product and educate customers and peers using simplified explanations
WITHIN TWELVE MONTHS, YOU’LL
Set an example for new CSMs, and assist in training, onboarding, and motivating new Lofters
Be a proven self-starter and able to come up to speed on complex, difficult concepts with minimal assistance
Have a thorough understanding of the challenges an organization faces when implementing a new technology and how to help them manage change
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The PivotHop read
- What a customer success manager actually earnsmedian, seniority, by country
- Alternative careers for a customer success managerevery measured route out
- Account Executive → Customer Success Manager85% readiness
- Sales Representative → Customer Success Manager60% readiness
- Corporate Trainer → Customer Success Manager55% readiness
- All open customer success manager rolesthe full board
Where these skills also reach
Adjacent occupations measured from the same postings — readiness is what a customer success manager’s profile already covers.
- 250 open sales representative roles43% readiness from customer success manager
- 170 open management consultant roles41% readiness from customer success manager
- 250 open account executive roles38% readiness from customer success manager
- 250 open operations manager roles37% readiness from customer success manager
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