Customer Success Manager, SaaS, Higher Ed
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Customer Success Manager enhancing university engagement through strong relationships. Focused on retention and growth within a fully remote team.
Responsibilities:
- Owning customer relationships
- Being the main point of contact for a group of universities, from onboarding onwards
- Getting to know your customers properly: their goals, pressures, politics, and pain points
- Running regular check-ins, reviews, and QBRs that are genuinely useful, not just going through the motions
- Visiting customers on campus at least once a year, and more often where it adds value
- Keeping customers with us (because they want to stay)
- Owning renewals end to end; planning ahead, showing value, and keeping things on track
- Watching usage and engagement so you can spot risks early and do something about them
- Making sure customers feel supported, heard, and confident in what we’re building
- Taking ownership of retention and growth across your accounts, including identifying and progressing expansion opportunities
- Spotting where Gecko could add value across teams, departments, or use cases, and being confident opening those conversations
- Running demos and account reviews that connect outcomes to product value and commercial impact
- Keeping Salesforce up to date so account history, risks, and opportunities are easy for others to follow
- Acting as a first point of contact for customer issues, owning them through to resolution with support from the wider team, not as a ticket-only function
- Balancing reactive support with proactive account management (yes, we know that’s a skill)
Requirements:
- Comfortable with commercial responsibility and understand how retention and expansion drive a SaaS business
- Worked in an account manager or client-facing role in SaaS, Higher Ed, or something similar
- Comfortable balancing customer advocacy with commercial ownership
- Confident running meetings, demos, and reviews with different types of people
- Curious by default; you ask questions, dig into problems, and keep learning
- Organised enough to juggle multiple accounts without dropping the ball
- Happy to travel within the US for customer visits and sector events, and very occasionally to the UK.
Benefits:
- 33 days of holiday and flexible working
- Home office setup, MacBook, and headphones of your choice
- Our workation policy gives you flexibility to work away from home at points through the year
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and perks via Perkbox
- A collaborative, supportive team that cares about doing good work well


















