
Customer Success Senior Manager
Salesforce
Customer Success Senior Manager
Salesforce is seeking a Customer Success Senior Manager to join its Melbourne team, focusing on the Financial Services customer segment. This strategic individual contributor role drives business impact for complex Signature customers, ensuring adoption, technical health, and value realization. The role requires expertise in customer success, executive communication, and Salesforce product knowledge, with a preference for Salesforce certifications.
Customer Success Senior Manager
Salesforce is seeking a Customer Success Senior Manager to join its Melbourne team, focusing on the Financial Services customer segment. This strategic individual contributor role drives business impact for complex Signature customers, ensuring adoption, technical health, and value realization. The role requires expertise in customer success, executive communication, and Salesforce product knowledge, with a preference for Salesforce certifications.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Determine when and how to engage clients based on calculated ROI, ensuring all activities translate directly into tangible value for the customer.
- Effectively own the Signature experience across complex, multi-org customers, organizing information across multiple work streams and integrating customer priorities and timelines into comprehensive success plans.
- Act as the central resource for the team and the customer, connecting all the dots, proactively taking ownership of customer needs and drawing expert resources into customer situations as needed.
- Craft a clear engagement charter with specified goals and metrics to ensure alignment across internal and external teams.
- Align the Account Success team and internal stakeholders around the customer's business and technical goals, ensuring value delivery through the Signature offer.
- Design multi-step digital workflows where agents handle repetitive data-intensive work, freeing the CSM for high-stakes relationship building.
- Determine which customer segments or tasks require high-touch human coverage vs. autonomous 'always-on' AI support.
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with customer IT and business executive leadership, demonstrating a genuine commitment to customer goals to build deep rapport.
- Navigate the customer's and Salesforce's internal organizational dynamics to achieve results, driving consensus with collaborators and influencing key internal and external stakeholders.
- Combine expert Salesforce knowledge with deep business insight to deliver effective recommendations and advance the customer's core business goals.
- Effectively amplify the voice of the customer with internal teams to ensure the organization remains laser-focused on customer success.
- Develop a strong working knowledge of Salesforce's major solutions and a 'sales pitch' understanding of the rest, leveraging industry insight to position customers for future success.
- Demonstrate a growth mindset by pursuing challenging learning activities, mentoring team members, and contributing subject matter expertise internally within Salesforce.
- Act as the leader in identifying problems, leveraging the Red Accounts Escalation Play and Case Oversight & Incident Management processes when high-value renewals or Go-live dates are at risk.
- Guide customers through governance frameworks, best practices for Trust Layer, and implementation of safety-by-design principles.
- Use AI tools for account-level pattern recognition and access automated RCA reports for specific scenarios.
- Question assumptions to uncover root causes and reveal new opportunities rather than just treating symptoms.