Director, Customer Success Management- Remote

What You'll Do

Drive Customer Value & Growth

• Ensure every customer experiences consistent, high-quality engagement throughout their lifecycle.

• Partner with Sales, Renewals, and Services leadership to drive adoption, retention, and expansion across the customer base.

• Model and coach a cohesive account team approach — ensuring CSMs, TAMs, Account Executives, and Renewal Managers operate as a unified team aligned on customer outcomes.

• Provide executive sponsorship for strategic accounts and serve as a trusted advisor to C-level customer stakeholders.

Cultivate Deep Product Expertise

• Uphold one of the hallmarks of Highspot’s Customer Success team by developing and maintaining deep knowledge of our platform and its integrations within customer environments.

• Ensure the CSM organization is equipped to provide best practices, training, and guidance that maximize customer value and adoption.

• Champion product expertise as a differentiator, reinforcing credibility and trust with customers at every level.

Foster a High-Performance Culture

• Lead with a people-first mindset — genuinely investing in the development, wellbeing, and career growth of every member of your team.

• Hire, coach, and develop top talent at every level of the CSM org, leading with high emotional intelligence and self-awareness.

• Set and uphold high performance and engagement standards, balancing accountability with empathy.

• Cultivate a culture that embodies Highspot’s guiding principles, especially “Enjoy the Ride.”

Drive Commercial Impact & Retention

• Lead a team in owning and exceeding a dedicated customer retention target for your assigned strategic portfolio.

• Drive adoption of MEDDPICC sales methodology.   

• Ensure your CSMs run proactive renewal validation — confirming stakeholder alignment, surfacing risk, and documenting customer value — in close partnership with their Renewal Managers.

• Maintain forecasting accuracy for renewals and expansion, providing reliable, data-driven insights to leadership.

• Drive your CSMs to surface and qualify expansion opportunities in partnership with Account Executives who own the commercial relationship, stepping in to support key deals as needed.

Collaborate Cross-Functionally

• Partner with Product leadership to channel customer insights into product strategy and innovation.

• Work with Marketing and Sales to align on customer advocacy, referenceability, and expansion opportunities.

• Collaborate with Operations and Analytics to ensure data-driven decision-making across the CSM function.

Lead & Scale the Organization

• Build and inspire a segment-focused Customer Success team that sets the standard for excellence across Enterprise and Strategic accounts.

• Implement scalable processes, tools, and metrics that drive efficiency, consistency, and predictable outcomes.

• Develop the leadership bench within the CSM org, ensuring succession planning and long-term organizational strength.

Your Background

• 8+ years of experience leading high-performing teams in Customer Success, post-sales, or sales.
  
  
• 6+ years of direct client management experience specifically tailored to Enterprise or Strategic segments.

• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and scale global organizations and processes.

• Track record of owning retention and growth metrics, including experience partnering with renewal and sales teams on commercial execution.

• Experience building and modeling cohesive account team motions across CS, Sales, and Renewals.

• Proven executive leadership and decision-making capabilities with strong operational rigor.

• High emotional intelligence and a people-first leadership style — you lead with empathy, build trust quickly, and bring out the best in the people around you.

• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence internal stakeholders and engage with C-level executives.

• Deep familiarity with SaaS businesses, including metrics, challenges, and lifecycle dynamics.

• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Services, and Marketing to deliver seamless customer outcomes.

• Familiarity with MEDDPICC or comparable sales methodologies and their application within a Customer Success context.

• Successful history of hiring, developing, and retaining world-class talent across leadership and frontline roles.

• Strong technical and product acumen, including experience with CRM platforms (Salesforce/Dynamics 365) and sales enablement technologies.

• Entrepreneurial mindset, adaptable to change, with a focus on solutions and opportunities.

This position is available either in-office or remote, as applicable, at the following locations:

Arizona - Remote 

Arkansas - Remote

California - Remote 

Connecticut - Remote 

Florida - Remote 

Georgia - Remote 

Idaho - Remote 

Illinois - Remote 

Maryland - Remote 

Massachusetts - Remote 

Michigan - Remote

Minnesota - Remote 

Missouri - Remote 

Montana - Remote 

Nevada - Remote

New Hampshire - Remote

New Jersey - Remote 

New York - Remote 

North Carolina - Remote 

Ohio - Remote 

Oregon - Remote 

Pennsylvania - Remote 

South Carolina - Remote

Tennessee - Remote

Texas - Remote 

Utah - Remote 

Virginia - Remote 

Washington - Remote 

Washington - Seattle

Washington, D.C. - Remote

Wisconsin - Remote