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Job Category
Customer Success
Job Details
About SalesforceSalesforce 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.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
The ExperienceThe Customer Success Manager, Senior Manager is a highly strategic and experienced individual contributor responsible for driving quantifiable business impact across our most complex, often multi-org Signature customers. This role acts as a primary strategic partner who maintains a continual focus on the customer's business goals to improve their adoption, technical health, and expertise to realize the maximum value out of their Salesforce investment.
"Location availability varies by vertical. Please indicate your target vertical and location in your application."
Preferred experience in supporting customers in the following industries:
- Financial Services (FINS) - Works with banking, insurance, wealth management, and other financial services organizations to support digital transformation, regulatory compliance, and improved customer and member outcomes through the Salesforce platform. Direct experience with Financial Services Cloud is preferred. Location: NY Metro preferred
What You'll Actually Be DoingStrategic Accountability and Account Leadership
- ROI-Driven Engagement: Determine when and how to engage clients based on calculated ROI, ensuring all activities translate directly into tangible value for the customer. Craft a clear engagement charter with specified goals and metrics to ensure alignment across internal and external teams.
- Complex Program Management: Effectively own the Signature experience across complex, multi-org customers, integrating customer priorities and timelines into comprehensive success plans.
- Resource Mobilization: Act as the central resource for the team and the customer, proactively taking ownership of customer needs and drawing expert resources into customer situations as needed. Align the Account Success team and internal stakeholders around the customer's business and technical goals.
Trusted Advisory and Executive Influence
- Advanced Stakeholder Management: Cultivate and maintain relationships with customer IT and business executive leadership, demonstrating a genuine commitment to customer goals. Drive consensus and influence key internal and external stakeholders to engage in the process.
- Business Insight: Combine expert Salesforce knowledge with deep business insight to deliver effective recommendations and advance the customer's core business goals. Amplify the voice of the customer with internal teams, and mentor team members.
Domain Expertise and Risk Mitigation
- Risk Management: Act as the leader in identifying problems. Leverage the Red Accounts Escalation Play and Case Oversight & Incident Management processes when high-value renewals or Go-Live dates are at risk. Question assumptions to uncover root causes and reveal new opportunities rather than just treating symptoms.
- AI Governance & Guardrails: Guide customers through governance frameworks, best practices for Trust Layer, and implementation of safety-by-design principles.
You're Our Person If...- Experienced business professional, preferably with 5-6 years of relevant industry expertise in Customer Success, SaaS platform use, or related strategic consulting fields.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills with a demonstrated ability to influence effectively at all levels, including executive and C-level. Ability to handle objections, navigate complicated discussions, and drive alignment.
- 5-6 years experience supporting customers using Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, with certifications in Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant and Advanced Administrator.
- Knowledge of advanced features:Sales Cloud: Sales Engagement, High Velocity Features, Einstein AI (lead/opportunity scoring, forecasting)Service Cloud: Omni-Channel, Service Cloud Voice, Digital Engagement (messaging, chat), Field Service Lightning, Einstein AI (case routing, chatbots, predictive service)
Even Better If...- Additional Salesforce product certifications are a plus (AI Associate, Platform App Builder, Data 360 Specialist, Agentblazer, CPQ Specialist, Field Service Consultant, Slack).
- Experience with Einstein for Sales (lead scoring, opportunity insights, activity capture) and Service (case classification, article recommendations, next base actions).
- Strong understanding of Sales Cloud (sales effectiveness, revenue operations strategy, territory management, collaborative forecasting, pipeline inspection tools) and Service Cloud (customer service transformation, contact center operations, telephony integrations, IVR systems, workforce management tools), with experience supporting enterprise sales organizations and complex sales processes.
- Understanding of sales (MEDDIC, Challenger, Solution Selling) and service (ITIL, customer success frameworks) methodologies, and knowledge of Agentforce SDR & Service Agent and AI-powered selling/service capabilities.
Note: This role is office-flexible, and the expectation is to be in-office a minimum of three (3) days per week.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what's possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $150,100 - $227,000 annually. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations. In California and New York, and select cities in the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington DC, the base pay range for this role in those locations is $180,200 - $247,900 per year. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
