Customer Success Manager

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Customer Success Manager owning strategic UAE enterprise accounts for Cohere, a security-first enterprise AI company. Guiding secure AI adoption, implementation, renewals, and regional customer advocacy.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the success, adoption, and growth of Cohere’s UAE private sector customers
  • Build trusted relationships with senior enterprise stakeholders, including CXOs, VPs, Directors, and digital transformation leads
  • Develop success plans tailored to each organization’s mission, digital strategy, budget cycles, and constraints
  • Serve as primary point of contact and executive sponsor, managing escalations and customer satisfaction
  • Define and track success metrics including ROI, revenue growth, operational efficiency, cost savings, and innovation outcomes
  • Guide customers through AI adoption from use-case identification and pilot design through production deployment and scaling
  • Lead secure AI implementation projects in complex enterprise environments, including sensitive systems and on-premises deployments
  • Navigate legacy integration, data sensitivity, regulatory compliance, and cultural considerations
  • Create and execute change-management strategies to drive user adoption and value realization
  • Conduct regular executive business reviews demonstrating ROI, impact, and strategic value
  • Drive contract renewals and account growth
  • Advocate internally for regional customer features and capabilities
  • Provide strategic feedback to Product and Engineering on security, explainability, Arabic support, and ethical AI
  • Contribute to UAE-specific offerings, playbooks, documentation, and best practices
  • Share customer insights with regional go-to-market strategy and positioning
  • Represent Cohere at regional business forums, industry events, and enterprise roundtables

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of experience in customer success, account management, strategic consulting, or technology delivery roles within enterprise or private sector contexts
  • At least 3–5 years working directly with UAE enterprises across finance, healthcare, logistics, or technology
  • Proven track record managing complex, strategic accounts with multiple stakeholders, long sales cycles, and multi-year implementation timelines
  • Experience leading AI/ML, cloud, or enterprise software implementations in secure or highly regulated environments
  • Experience developing and executing customer success strategies, QBRs, and executive engagement programs
  • Deep understanding of how UAE enterprises evaluate, procure, and govern technology solutions
  • Fluent Arabic and English language proficiency
  • Strong knowledge of regional business culture, relationship-building practices, and hierarchical decision-making processes
  • Understanding of the UAE business environment, including free zones, mainland companies, and multinational operations
  • Knowledge of UAE Labour Law, Saudi business regulations, and data protection frameworks
  • Familiarity with Saudi Vision 2030, UAE Digital Transformation Strategy, and Smart Dubai
  • Experience with regional cloud strategies and security frameworks
  • 3+ years specifically managing GenAI, LLM, or conversational AI implementations
  • Experience with UAE enterprise digital transformation initiatives
  • Direct experience with regional defense, financial services, or healthcare sectors
  • Background in management consulting, systems integration, or digital transformation consulting for regional clients

Benefits:

  • A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency
  • Full health and dental benefits
  • Separate mental health budget
  • RRSP matching
  • 401K
  • Pension Scheme
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
  • Annual enrichment benefits covering arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and workspace improvement credit
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Budget for traveling to other offices if remote
  • Annual company offsite
  • Daily lunch program, snacks, and regular community and social events for office-based employees
  • Co-working benefit for employees not near an office
  • $500 home office stipend