Customer Success Manager, Director - Core; Sales & Service Clouds

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

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‑seeded 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.

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

• Health & Life Sciences (HLS) – Collaborates with healthcare providers, payers, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies to support digital health initiatives, regulatory compliance, and improved patient/member outcomes through the Salesforce platform (Direct experience with Health Cloud and/or Life Sciences Cloud strongly preferred).

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…