Senior Manager, Customer Success

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Leads Customer Success Managers to drive retention and growth at VitalSource Technologies, enhancing customer outcomes and coordination across departments. Oversees customer lifecycle from onboarding to expansion.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Customer Success Managers to deliver retention, adoption, and expansion outcomes across assigned customer segments or portfolios
  • Set team goals, performance expectations, and operating rhythms aligned to customer outcomes, revenue retention, and growth objectives
  • Oversee execution of the customer lifecycle, including onboarding coordination, value realization planning, risk management, and expansion readiness
  • Review portfolio health, customer risk indicators, and growth opportunities to guide prioritization, escalation handling, and proactive engagement strategies
  • Partner with Sales, Product, Operations, and Support to align customer strategy, improve service delivery, and resolve issues affecting customer outcomes
  • Improve Customer Success processes, reporting, and engagement models to support scale, consistency, and better visibility into business impact
  • Support complex or high-impact customer situations and executive-level engagements when escalation, alignment, or recovery is required

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of experience in Customer Success, account management, client services, or a related customer-facing function
  • 3+ years of experience leading or developing Customer Success teams or equivalent people leadership experience in a customer-facing environment
  • Experience managing retention, adoption, and growth outcomes across a customer portfolio, segment, or book of business
  • Experience leading cross-functional work with Sales, Product, Operations, and Support teams
  • Experience using CRM and customer success platforms to monitor customer performance and inform engagement strategy
  • AI proficiency, including the ability to use AI-enabled tools responsibly and effectively to improve team productivity, customer insight generation, and operational efficiency
  • Ability to lead through others by setting clear expectations, coaching performance, and building accountability for customer and business outcomes
  • Ability to interpret customer health, usage, and commercial data and translate insights into actions that improve retention and growth
  • Strong judgment in prioritization, escalation management, and resource allocation across competing customer and team needs
  • Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and align customer strategies with broader business priorities
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with senior internal stakeholders and customer leaders
  • Ability to improve processes, reporting, and operating standards to support scale and consistency
  • Working knowledge of CRM and customer success platforms such as Salesforce, ChurnZero, or Gainsight

Benefits:

  • Competitive base salary and a strong variable component
  • Generous, well-rounded benefits such as Medical, Vision, Dental, Life, Disability, Critical Illness, Accident, FSA, HSA, ID Protection, Pet and Legal Insurance
  • 401K match up to 5%
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Use our tuition reimbursement program
  • Start at 4 weeks’ vacation, 12 sick days, 11 company holidays, and 3 personal days
  • Flexible work schedules and remote capabilities (by team)
  • Opportunities for fitness challenges and rewards