Director of Customer Success Management, Salesforce
$171.2-298.4k
Salary dependent on location
Salesforce
Expert level
Chicago
3+ days a week in office
World's leading CRM provider
Be an early applicant
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales
Be an early applicant
$171.2-298.4k
Salary dependent on location
Salesforce
Expert level
Chicago
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Customer Success strategies, trends, and outcomes at the enterprise level
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Clear, concise communication of customer success strategy, business value, and escalation guidance
- Strong presentation skills. Confidently represent the team and strategy in executive forums and customer engagements
- Proven ability to manage schedules, customer portfolios, and capacity planning. You should be comfortable using data to advocate for resources, process improvements, or customer-facing changes
- Skilled at engaging and aligning with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Sales, Services, and Success
- An understanding of enterprise customer lifecycle management, Salesforce cloud platforms, and scalable success delivery models
- Experience leading and growing high-performing CSM teams with a focus on coaching, upskilling, and succession planning
- Strong collaboration and negotiation skills to drive outcomes in a matrixed environment
- Familiarity with Salesforce products, capabilities, and customer success methodology
- Familiarity with customer success best practices, health scoring frameworks, and adoption metrics
- Ability to represent customer outcomes and product value to diverse audiences (field, partners, customers, executives)
- Knowledge of how to translate complex customer challenges into actionable success plans and enablement content
- Deep familiarity with Sales Cloud and Service Cloud capabilities, including pipeline management, forecasting, case management, and omni-channel service delivery
- Understanding of how enterprise sales and service teams operate and derive value from CRM platforms
- Experience guiding customers through Sales and Service Cloud adoption, optimization, and expansion
- Deep familiarity with Commerce Cloud and Marketing Cloud capabilities, including storefront management, personalization, journey building, and campaign automation
- Understanding of digital commerce and marketing operations, including B2B and B2C customer journeys
- Experience guiding customers through Commerce and Marketing Cloud adoption, integration, and value realization
- 10+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Solution Consulting, or related fields
- 3–5 years of people management or leadership experience, including managing high-performing Customer Success teams
- Proven experience managing customer portfolios and resource planning across complex, multi-segment customer bases
- Demonstrated success in driving cross-functional alignment with Product, Sales, Services, and Engineering teams
- Experience leading high-priority customer initiatives or programs with executive visibility and business-critical outcomes
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce products and platform — features, capabilities, best practices, and how customers derive value from them, including knowledge of the Salesforce ecosystem
- Strong analytical and operational abilities, especially around team performance, customer health metrics, prioritization, and efficiency
- For Core Clouds: Demonstrated experience working with or supporting Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud at an enterprise level, with a strong understanding of CRM-driven sales and service motions
- For Digital: Demonstrated experience working with or supporting Commerce Cloud and/or Marketing Cloud at an enterprise level, with a strong understanding of digital commerce and marketing automation strategies
What the job involves
- Our customers who drive the most value out of Salesforce rely on the Signature Success program and team. Signature Success aligns on each customer’s needs, strategic objectives, and maturity
- Customers are then supported through long-term plans that align the right people, skills, coaching, and oversight to help customers achieve tangible results through Salesforce products. Insights and analysis are provided along the way to drive comprehensive support. The primary orchestrators driving Signature delivery are our versatile Customer Success Managers (CSM)
- The CSM Director leads the strategy for Signature Success Plan delivery across their team of CSMs
- CSM Directors are able to research, synthesize, and develop insights and actions from market intelligence & customer feedback
- They will also hire, coach, manage, and support a team of individuals with a variety of backgrounds. The primary responsibility of the CSM Director is to accomplish Signature delivery across a given book of business, through their CSM team
- This role requires customer centricity, partnership, resourcefulness, flexibility, and a highly driven demeanor. Success in this role is measured by customer and employee sentiment, retention of business, customer adoption and growth of customers through their business objectives
- The following is a list of characteristics that make a great leader at Salesforce. We expect our next Director, Customer Success Manager to exhibit each of these characteristics:
- Get it Done – Drives processes that scale. Challenges the organization to think with a beginner’s mind and act efficiently to achieve the desired outcome. Calm, organized, positive, and can-do attitude. Results-driven, tenacious, drive to succeed in a fast-paced environment
- Courageous Communicator – Superb interpersonal skills including a demonstrated ability to communicate, present, and influence credibly and effectively at all levels in an organization including executive and C-level. Tailors message and style to the audience, uses storytelling to deliver effective presentations and messages
- Motivate and Champion – Invests in and tries new things in the talent and career development of our people. Holds self and team accountable to expectations
- Salesforce Smart – Explains the vision and “the why” behind changes. Keeps teams focused and moving forward, even in an absence of concrete information, by rallying them around a vision
- Win as a Team – Puts the collective benefit of the company first. Brings teams together to take-on shared goals. Seeks and embraces different points of view and experiences to unlock the collective potential of people across Salesforce.”
- We are hiring for multiple Director, Customer Success Manager openings, each focused on a distinct product portfolio:
- Core Clouds – Sales Cloud and Service Cloud
- Technology Media Telecommunication (TMT) – Works with technology companies, telecommunications providers, media organizations, and high-tech firms to accelerate innovation, improve customer success outcomes, and drive platform adoption at scale (Direct experience with Media Cloud strongly preferred)
- 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)
- Digital – Commerce Cloud and Marketing Cloud
- Consumer Business Services (CBS) – Supports companies in professional services, hospitality, travel, transportation, and business services sectors, helping them optimize customer engagement and operational efficiency across complex service delivery models
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
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