Customer Success Manager - Global Public Sector Tableau (FedCiv)

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, and they are seeking a Customer Success Manager for the Global Public Sector. The role involves ensuring high-value customers achieve a significant return on their investment by providing guidance, managing deliverables, and driving adoption of Tableau features.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the single point of customer accountability responsible for the delivery of all Signature deliverables, the overall customer experience, and renewal and expansion
• Coordinate all deliverables the customer is entitled to, overseeing the experience throughout the Signature lifecycle
• Apply the correct processes to address customer needs and ensure value is delivered through the Signature offer
• Successfully align with and manage both Business and Technical Stakeholders, focusing on aligning Business Value and Technical Goals to the Signature offer
• Prioritize the most urgent work activities, organize tasks to avoid missing key steps, and create basic plans to focus time, taking responsibility for assigned tasks
• Use internal resources to increase effectiveness and rely on managers or mentors for guidance on priority problems
• Conduct enablement sessions on opportunity and case management, forecasting, pipeline hygiene, knowledge creation, and omni-channel routing
• Share best practices for sales and service process optimization, data quality, and customer experience
• Drive adoption of Tableau Cloud features with reps, agents, managers, supervisors, and ops teams
• Track usage metrics (opportunity updates, activity logging, forecast submissions, report usage, case resolution times, knowledge article usage, channel adoption, and CSAT scores)
• Develop and maintain strong relationships at key stakeholder levels, including cultivating executive-level relationships within customer IT and business leadership
• Act as a trusted advisor by gaining trust through mutual goals, understanding the customer’s business model, and applying proven solutions to their problems
• Solidify partnership commitments and drive innovation aligned with customers' business challenges
• Increase customer engagement with products and services and identify major political barriers to customer success
• Partner with more experienced team members to solve complex problems and develop strategic success plans when needed
• Conduct quarterly reviews of feature usage to drive adoption of tools like Journey Builder or Commerce Promotions, ensuring platform stability and performance
• Identify underutilization of contracted entitlements (e.g., messaging volume or GMV tiers) and align platform features with customer priorities to increase throughput
• AI Literacy: Proficiency in using AI agents to automate routine tasks such as meeting summaries, QBR data collection, and initial health monitoring
• Prompt Engineering Basics: Ability to use natural-language commands to guide AI agents in retrieving accurate customer data and generating first drafts of success plans
• AI Engagement Monitoring: Using AI-driven sentiment and intent analysis to flag early customer concerns for human intervention
• Collaborative Learning: Actively seeking out 'Agentblazer' training and certifications to stay current on autonomous agent capabilities
• Learning & Development: Apply product knowledge and expertise to address technical concerns, use this knowledge to ask effective diagnosis questions, and align platform features with customer priorities and roadmaps
• Proactively monitor and conduct quarterly reviews, identify trends, and provide tailored release recommendations to ensure stability, performance, and feature enhancement
• Serve as the primary interface for major incidents (e.g., checkout failures or email deliverability drops) to protect peak revenue
• Forge strong multidisciplinary relationships with Sales, Engineering, and Product Management to lead and coordinate customer relationships for success and revenue opportunities
• Form a clear plan for client engagements, communicate clearly and proactively with collaborators, and keep the customer goal central to decision-making
• Escalate complex automation, data model, routing, or integration questions to technical resources
• Drive adoption of Tableau features with business users and analysts
• Conduct enablement sessions on dashboard creation and data exploration
• Track usage metrics (active users, workbook views, data source adoption)
• Share best practices for visualization design and dashboard performance
• Escalate complex data modeling or server configuration questions to technical resources

Requirements:

• Experienced business professional, preferably with 5+ years of relevant industry expertise in Customer Success, SaaS platform use, or related fields
• Strong consulting skills and demonstrated ability to drive business value, facilitate discussions, handle objections, and influence C-level conversations
• Possess industry-relevant expertise and begin honing skills in a relevant functional area. Should understand the broad impact of the industry on the customer's business
• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical issues to diverse audiences and the ability to translate technical concepts into business terms
• Actively seek out relevant learning activities, approach obstacles as growth opportunities, and seek experienced mentors to accelerate personal development
• Working knowledge of Tableau Desktop, Tableau Cloud/Server, and Tableau Prep
• Understanding of data visualization best practices and dashboard design
• Familiarity with common data sources (databases, spreadsheets, cloud apps)
• Ability to demonstrate Tableau features and navigate workbooks/dashboards
• Knowledge of basic analytics use cases (sales dashboards, operational reporting, KPI tracking)
• 3-4 years experience supporting customers using Tableau
• Tableau Desktop Specialist or Data Analyst certification
• Experience with Tableau governance basics (permissions, projects, data sources)
• Understanding of how Tableau connects to Salesforce data