Senior Technical Customer Success Manager (Veza)
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Description
- The Senior Customer Success Manager is responsible for the end-to-end success of a defined portfolio of enterprise customers. This role carries direct accountability for customer outcomes, including executive alignment, realized business value, platform adoption, renewal readiness, and expansion identification
- Operating with extreme ownership, this role brings structure to complex environments, drives measurable results, and orchestrates internal resources without requiring direction
- We hire builders and owners–not coordinators
- This is a leadership-caliber individual contributor role, deployed against a limited number of accounts to enable deeper executive engagement and measurable customer outcomes
- Own a mixed portfolio of approximately 10-20 strategic enterprise and mid-market customers
- Operate within a high-touch engagement model where depth of partnership is prioritized over volume
- Engage regularly with CIO, CISO, and senior technology leadership
- Directly influence renewal outcomes, expansion opportunities, and executive satisfaction
- Support customers operating in complex, highly integrated environments
- Identify material risk multiple quarters ahead of renewal cycles and drive coordinated mitigation
- Extreme Ownership of Customer Outcomes
- Serve as the accountable leader for the health, trajectory, and commercial posture of each assigned customer
- Establish clear success criteria and align internal execution accordingly
- Drive customers from deployment to durable operational reliance
- Orchestrate the resources required to achieve customer outcomes
- Treat each customer as a business, balancing advocacy with commercial responsibility
- Executive Engagement
- Build trusted advisor relationships with CIO, CISO, and senior stakeholders
- Deliver Executive Business Reviews grounded in measurable business outcomes
- Align platform capabilities to strategic initiatives such as security posture, regulatory readiness, and operational resilience
- Guide executive decision-making through insight and credible challenge when necessary
- Value Realization
- Build and govern multi-year Success Plans for every strategic account
- Translate product capabilities into quantified business impact
- Ensure customers achieve the outcomes that justified their investment
- Develop referenceable advocates through demonstrated value
- Renewal Predictability
- Own renewal posture across the portfolio with no late-stage surprises
- Inspect leading indicators including adoption depth, executive engagement, and realized value
- Communicate risk early with a clear mitigation strategy and path to resolution
- Risk Management & Account Health Leadership
- Bring rigor and objectivity to evaluating account health
- Proactively identify erosion signals and mobilize cross-functional teams before issues escalate
- Develop and execute disciplined recovery strategies when required
- Deliver difficult messages when necessary to protect long-term outcomes
- Maintain high forecast accuracy for assigned accounts
- Cross-Functional Partnership
- Operate as the accountable leader for customer outcomes while partnering closely with Account Executives and Solution Engineers across the customer lifecycle
- Align commercial strategy with the Account Executive to support retention and expansion
- Partner with Solution Engineers on technical strategy, ensuring deployments support defined success criteria
- Lead integrated account planning across Sales, Solutions, and Customer Success
- Foster a one-team approach focused on long-term customer value rather than functional handoffs
- While execution is shared, accountability for customer outcomes remains clear
- Internal Execution & Governance
- Coordinate Sales, Professional Services, Support, Product, and partner teams
- Establish governance frameworks that drive accountability and transparency
- Remove obstacles and maintain execution momentum across large programs
- Operate effectively within highly matrixed customer organizations
Benefits
- Generous family leave
- Matched donations
- Annual learning stipends
- Flexible PTO
- Competitive retirement plan
- Paid volunteer time
- Demonstrated ownership of large, multi-threaded accounts with executive visibility
- Proven experience driving renewals, expansion, and long-term customer value
- 8+ years managing complex enterprise customers within Identity Access Management (IAM)
- Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to connect adoption to ROI
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments
- Background in Cybersecurity is a requirement of the role
- Track record of proactively identifying risk and driving resolution
- Executive-level communication skills and presence
- Experience within Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) is strongly preferred
- Experience supporting identity, security, governance, or other mission-critical enterprise platforms is required
- Identity Governance & Administration
- Privileged Access Management
- Access certifications / User Access Reviews
- Compliance initiatives (SOX, ISO, NIST, SOC 2)
- Zero Trust programs
- Security transformation efforts