Manager, Customer Success

Role Overview

• Advocate for the Customer: Proactively engage with customers through your team to understand their needs, address challenges, and ensure they are achieving desired outcomes
• Serve as a voice of the customer within the organization, ensuring customer feedback is heard and acted upon
• Partner with customers to identify and develop programs that drive higher feature adoption and improved customer health scores
• Strategic Leadership: Execute and implement customer success strategies aligned with business goals
• Create and implement processes that help customers maximize success with our platform
• Guide CSMs in building comprehensive success strategies using the customer's language and leveraging PagerDuty's tools and processes
• Understand and articulate PagerDuty's value proposition and how it helps organizations transform their digital operations
• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Customer Success Managers
• Provide evaluation and feedback necessary to coach performance to high levels of output
• Foster collaboration within the team and across the business
• Attract, hire and retain high-performing Customer Success Managers
• Retention and Growth: Drive customer retention and expansion through effective team leadership
• Monitor and improve key metrics including gross revenue retention, net revenue retention, adoption, and customer health scores
• Work with Sales team to identify new opportunities and facilitate post-sale handoff process
• Effectively manage churn risk through proactive identification and mitigation strategies
• Data Analysis and Reporting: Monitor key customer success metrics and identify trends to inform decision-making
• Utilize data to accurately forecast and drive measured improvement across the team's book of business
• Report on team outcomes and trends
• Leverage customer success tools to track and improve team effectiveness
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with Sales, Solutions Consultants, Product, and other teams to meet customer business objectives
• Ensure smooth coordination between account teams for complex customer needs
• Drive alignment across teams for customer escalations and resolution
• Establish clear processes for engaging executive leadership when needed
• Process Improvement / Managing Workload: Identify and implement improvements to customer success processes and tools
• Create and maintain consistent playbooks and best practices for the team
• Utilize customer success technologies such as Salesforce and Gainsight to measure impact and effectiveness
• Balance tactical requests with a consultative approach to ensure customer satisfaction

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 6+ years of experience in customer-facing SaaS roles with 2+ years of people management experience preferred.
• Proven track record of high performance in managing strategic customers
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to drive strategic decisions
• Experience with customer success and sales tools (Salesforce, Gainsight, Tableau, Gong, etc)
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex client relationships
• Experience working with and managing remote teams
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellence in verbal and written communication

Tech Stack

• Tableau

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible work arrangements
• Company equity*
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)*
• Retirement or pension plan*
• Generous paid vacation time
• Paid holidays and sick leave
• Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty
• companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
• Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*
• Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
• Company-wide hack weeks
• Mental wellness programs