Customer Success Manager, Director - Core (Sales & Service) Clouds - TMT

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Customer Success

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About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

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Salesforce is seeking a Customer Success Manager, Director to service as a Strategic Value Partner for Salesforce's most complex and high-impact customer accounts. In this high-visibility role, you will move beyond tactical account management to drive a holistic success strategy that aligns Salesforce's platform capabilities with the customer's long-term business objectives.

You will be responsible for quantifying the business impact of their investment, transforming technical milestones into measurable ROI and executive-level success stories. By fostering deep-seated relationships across the customer's leadership team, you will identify and proactively mitigate strategic risks, ensuring platform stability and sustained growth. As a senior leader, you will orchestrate cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment, acting as an organizational multiplier who elevates the standard of excellence for our most strategic enterprise accounts.

Customer success Managers guide customers through case and incident management as subject matter experts on their business context and impact. CSMs coordinate customer communications and executive engagement during major incidents, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to address customer needs.

This is an Individual Contributor position.

Your Impact

• Executive Management & ROI-Driven Engagement: serve as the ultimate point of accountability for Signature Success delivery, driving renewals and expansion by orchestrating executive-level partnerships and quantifying the tangible ROI of the Salesforce investment.

• Business Value Integration:
  Architect strategic success roadmaps that align Salesforce's platform evolution with the customer's long-term corporate objectives, ensuring technical milestones translate into holistic business outcomes.

• Complex Program Management:
  Lead high-stakes, cross-functional initiatives across matrixed internal teams (Sales, Product, Engineering) to deliver seamless solutions for the most complex enterprise challenges.

• AI Governance & Guardrails:
  Govern the integration of autonomous AI agents and specialized digital coworkers, establishing the strategic guardrails and ethical alignment necessary for enterprise-scale AI adoption.

• Risk Management & Predictive Insight:
  Utilize deep usage telemetry and predictive analytics to identify and neutralize long-term (12-24 months) attrition risk and operational bottlenecks before they impact the business.

• Complex Incident Governance:
  Provide executive leadership and crisis governance during major incident, managing high-pressure communications and human-agent interventions to protect the customer's mission-critical operations.

• Mentorship & Organizational Development:
  Act as a "multiplier" by mentoring internal account teams and coaching talent on navigating high-stakes enterprise environments and emerging AI-augmented workflows.

• Strategic Business Insight:
  Deliver proactive, executive-level guidance on Salesforce's innovation cycle, ensuring customers are positioned to capitalize on new features while maintaining a stable and scalable technical environment.

• Experienced business professional, preferably with 7+ years of relevant industry expertise in Customer Success, strategic leadership, SaaS platform use, or related strategic consulting fields.

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills with demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the organization including executive and C-level.

• Skills for both analyzing technical concepts and translating them into business terms and for mapping business requirements into technical features.

• Ability to explain complex technical concepts in business-friendly terms to customers, then explain customer needs to internal partners.

• Experience working with Enterprise-level customers.

• Experience leading efforts of cross-functional teams to facilitate resolution or disposition of customer needs or projects.

• 7+ years experience supporting complex, enterprise-scale Sales/Service Cloud deployments.

• Sales Cloud:

  • 6+ years expertise supporting complex, enterprise-scale Sales Cloud deployments

  • Expert…