Manager, Customer Success
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Customer Success Manager leading teams that drive adoption, renewals, and expansion for Ping Identity’s cloud identity and cybersecurity platform. Managing enterprise outcomes, forecasts, KPIs, and cross-functional customer strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of Customer Success professionals responsible for adoption, value realization, renewal, and expansion across a defined customer portfolio
- Set expectations, build scalable processes, and partner with Sales, Renewals, Support, Product, and Professional Services
- Own team renewal, churn, and expansion outcomes in partnership with Sales and Renewals
- Ensure strategic success plans for priority accounts with business outcomes, owners, and timelines
- Oversee annual department KPI targets for assigned regions
- Identify at-risk customers, drive save plans, and coordinate cross-functional mitigation actions
- Use segmentation, health scores, product usage, NPS/CSAT, and support signals to prioritize interventions
- Recruit, onboard, coach, develop, and conduct performance reviews for the Customer Success team
- Build career development plans including skills, certifications, and stretch assignments
- Implement and improve adoption, value realization, and churn mitigation processes and playbooks
- Drive effective use of Customer Success platforms, CRM, and support systems
- Own forecasting and reporting for renewals, risk, and expansion opportunities
- Maintain accurate documentation including success plans, notes, health updates, and risk registers
- Serve as the primary Customer Success contact for cross-functional teams
- Align with Sales on programs, account strategies, deal reviews, and executive engagement plans
- Collaborate with Marketing on customer events, advocacy, references, and customer stories
- Represent Customer Success in escalations and incident reviews
- Deliver outcomes measured by renewal rate, churn, expansion, coverage, customer advocacy, and team health/performance
Requirements:
- Experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Consulting, or related customer-facing roles in B2B SaaS / enterprise software
- Experience leading and mentoring teams
- Experience running a four-quarter rolling churn forecast and delivering weekly executive-level updates for an enterprise-level book of business
- Ability to manage change and lead a team to deliver business objectives in an evolving landscape
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills
- Proven ability to own a book of business, interpret health scores, usage, pipeline, and churn trends, and convert insights into action
- Ability to lead company programs cross-functionally with Sales, Support, Product, and Professional Services
- Experience driving customer adoption and value realization with complex, multi-stakeholder accounts
- Comfort working with Director, VP, and C-level executive stakeholders
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, communication, and storytelling skills
- Strong understanding of subscription / ARR business models, renewals, and expansion mechanics
- Previous roles in Private Equity / VC owned businesses
- Preferred: Experience in Identity & Access Management (IAM), cybersecurity, or adjacent enterprise SaaS
- Preferred: Hands-on experience with Customer Success platforms such as Gainsight, Totango, or ChurnZero and CRM tools such as Salesforce
- Preferred: Experience managing distributed / remote teams across regions
Benefits:
- Flexible, collaborative work environment
- Company culture that empowers employees to do their best work
- Employee Resource Groups
- Regular company and team bonding events
- Competitive benefits and perks
- Global volunteering and community initiatives
- Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
- Parental Leave
- Progressive Healthcare Options
- Retirement Programs
- Opportunity for Education Reimbursement
- Commuter Offset (Specific locations)



















