Manager, Strategic Customer Success - AI Security

Welcome to the future of cloud networking and security!

Cato Networks is the first company to converge enterprise networking and security into one centralized and global service that is delivered by cloud. It is led by networking and security pioneer Shlomo Kramer (Check Point, Imperva) and early investor (Palo Alto Networks, Exabeam, Trusteer and more). Cato's unique technology inspired a brand-new product category, later named  SASE  by Gartner and a market expected to reach $28.5 billion by 2028.

This is your opportunity to get on the rocket ship and join a company that is building a cutting-edge enterprise network and secure cloud platform, and is on a fast track to becoming the worldwide market leader - don't miss it!

The Cato Customer Experience (CX) team is seeking a highly technical, customer-focused

Manager, Strategic Customer Success - AI Security (Americas) to build and scale our AI Security Customer Success practice while leading strategic customer engagements across the Americas. This leader will play a pivotal role in defining how Cato delivers customer outcomes for its AI Security portfolio, ensuring customers successfully progress through every stage of the customer lifecycle
-from onboarding and adoption to value realization, retention, and expansion.

This role combines technical leadership, strategic account management, executive relationship building, and commercial partnership. The ideal candidate has experience working with Fortune 500 organizations, leading technical customer success teams, and driving platform adoption in complex enterprise environments.

• Build and scale the AI Security Customer Success practice across the Americas, establishing the operating model, customer lifecycle, success methodologies, playbooks, health models, and operational best practices.
• Lead, recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing team of AI Security Customer Success Managers supporting enterprise customers across the region.
• Own the end-to-end customer lifecycle strategy, ensuring seamless transitions from onboarding and adoption to value realization, renewal, and expansion.
• Develop deep expertise in Cato's AI Security capabilities, customer use cases, and integration with the broader Cato SASE platform.
• Create scalable customer success frameworks that accelerate customer maturity, improve time-to-value, and drive consistent business outcomes.
• Define and track customer success KPIs, including customer health, adoption, time-to-value, retention, renewals, and expansion.
• Partner closely with Product Management, R&D, Professional Services, Support, and Product Marketing to advocate for customer needs and continuously improve the end-to-end customer experience.

• Own the post-sales success strategy for a portfolio of strategic Fortune 500 and enterprise customers across the Americas.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with executive and technical stakeholders, aligning AI Security initiatives to broader cybersecurity, AI governance, and digital transformation strategies.
• Partner closely with Sales to execute Cato'sland-and-expand strategy, positioning AI Security as the initial customer engagement while driving expansion into the broader Cato SASE platform.
• Lead Executive Business Reviews, strategic account planning, and value realization discussions that demonstrate measurable business outcomes and identify growth opportunities.
• Coach the team on executive engagement, technical discovery, strategic account planning, adoption planning, and value realization.
• Identify customer risks proactively while uncovering opportunities to increase platform adoption, improve retention, and drive expansion.
• Act as the executive escalation point for complex technical and business discussions, coordinating cross‑functional teams to deliver successful customer outcomes.

• 7+ years of experience in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Solutions Engineering, or a related customer-facing technical role within enterprise SaaS.
• 3+ years of experience leading customer-facing technical teams.
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