Customer Success Manager - Core; Sales & Service Clouds - Missionforce

Position: Customer Success Manager - Core (Sales & Service) Clouds - Mission force
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Customer Success

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The Customer Success Manager (CSM) is a versatile expert responsible for ensuring high-value customers who purchase the Signature Success Plan achieve a significant return on their investment with our platform. As a proud member of the Mission force team, this role supports customers operating within the National Security (Nat Sec) sector, including defense agencies, intelligence communities, and other mission-critical government organizations. This role functions as an extension of the customer's workforce and a trusted advisor, providing guidance and advice to customer organizations operating in complex, high-stakes environments.

The CSM is responsible for identifying and addressing both technical and business concerns, aligning them strategically with customer priorities, projects, and problems - with a deep understanding of the unique compliance, security, and mission-driven requirements inherent to the Nat Sec landscape.

We are looking for candidates who have experience supporting customers in one or more of the following industries:

National Security (Nat Sec) - Serve defense, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies in implementing secure cloud solutions that meet stringent government security standards, requiring understanding of government procurement processes and compliance frameworks.

This is an Individual Contributor position.

Responsibilities:

Customer Accountability and Value Alignment

* Serve as the single point of customer accountability responsible for the delivery of all Signature deliverables, the overall customer experience, and renewal and expansion.

* Coordinate all deliverables the customer is entitled to, overseeing the experience throughout the Signature lifecycle

* Apply the correct processes to address customer needs and ensure value is delivered through the Signature offer.

* Successfully align with and manage both Business and Technical Stakeholders, focusing on aligning Business Value and Technical Goals to the Signature offer.

* Prioritize the most urgent work activities, organize tasks to avoid missing key steps, and create basic plans to focus time, taking responsibility for assigned tasks.

* Use internal resources to increase effectiveness and rely on managers or mentors for guidance on priority problems.

* Conduct enablement sessions on opportunity and case management, forecasting, pipeline hygiene, knowledge creation, and omni-channel routing

* Share best practices for sales and service process optimization, data quality, and customer experience

Strategic Advisory and Stakeholder Management

* Drive adoption of Sales and Service Cloud features with reps, agents, managers, supervisors, and ops teams

* Track usage metrics (opportunity updates, activity logging, forecast submissions, report usage, case resolution times, knowledge article usage, channel adoption, and CSAT scores)

* Develop and maintain strong relationships at key stakeholder levels, including cultivating executive-level relationships within customer IT and business leadership.

* Act as a trusted advisor by gaining trust through mutual goals, understanding the customer's business model, and applying proven solutions to their problems.

* Solidify partnership commitments and drive innovation aligned with customers' business challenges.

* Increase customer engagement with products and services and identify major organizational barriers to customer success.

* Partner with more experienced team members to solve complex problems and develop strategic success plans when needed.

* Conduct quarterly reviews of feature usage to drive adoption of tools like Journey Builder or Commerce Promotions, ensuring platform stability and performance.

* Identify under utilization of contracted entitlements (e.g., messaging volume or GMV tiers) and align platform features with customer priorities to increase throughput.

Technical Health, Adoption, and Risk Management

* AI Literacy:
Proficiency in using AI agents to automate routine tasks such as meeting summaries, Q  data collection, and initial health monitoring.

* Prompt Engineering Basics:
Ability to use natural-language commands to guide AI agents in retrieving accurate customer data and generating first…