Enterprise Customer Success Manager

Handshake
San Francisco, CA
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Mid-level professionals with B2B SaaS or AI experience and strategic partnership skills will find this role's focus on long-term employer relationships and global impact appealing, requiring cross-functional collaboration in major US cities.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with mid-level B2B SaaS or AI experience who excel in strategic client partnership
    — “strategic partner and long term point of contact for our employer partners
  • Individuals adept at translating business needs into tailored tech solutions
    — “translate business needs into Handshake solutions
  • Professionals comfortable with cross-functional collaboration across multiple departments
    — “Work closely with cross-functional partners like Sales, Success, Account Management, Support, Education/University partnerships team, Marketing, Insights, Product, User Research, Enablement, RevOps, etc.

Things to consider

  • US citizenship may be required due to benefits being exclusive to full-time US employees
    — “The below benefits are for full-time US employees

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience facilitating client training sessions and workshops in your resume
    — “facilitating meetings and delivering product training(s) with external customers
  • Quantify past success in improving client team efficiencies through process optimization
    — “Provides process improvement solutions to create team efficiencies
  • Demonstrate data analysis skills used to refine recruitment ROI strategies in interviews
    — “Leverage data to inform decision-making and refine early talent recruiting ROI strategies
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • achieving hiring goals
  • driving adoption
  • establishing relationships with senior stakeholders
  • setting up key workflows
Typical background
customer successstrategic consultingaccount management

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer Success ManagementStrategic ConsultingAccount ManagementRelationship BuildingProject ManagementData-driven Decision Making

Preferred

Product TrainingProcess ImprovementTechnical AptitudeCollaborative Spirit

Stack & domain

CommunicationCustomer SuccessStrategic ConsultingAccount ManagementB2B SaasAITech

About the role

Original posting from Handshake via Ashby

ABOUT HANDSHAKE

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.

In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

  • Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
  • Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions
  • Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders
  • Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue

ABOUT THE ROLE

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Enterprise Customer Success, you'll partner with our Enterprise employer partners to ensure they achieve their hiring goals, drive adoption across recruiting teams and ensure they are seeing value in the Handshake product. As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager, you will be a strategic partner and long term point of contact for our employer partners. Your primary goal will be to establish and nurture relationships with senior stakeholders, align on employersʼ business objectives and set-up key workflows and processes based on the unique needs of the employer. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of quickly building relationships and trust, effortlessly pivoting from strategic to tactical, and being a project management powerhouse.

DESIRED CAPABILITIES

  • Has a minimum of 4-6 years of experience in Customer Success, Strategic Consulting, or Account Management within a high growth B2B SaaS, AI, or tech company
  • Develop relationships with senior stakeholders of our customers and deeply understand each customerʼs business goals, objectives and needs
  • Provide expert consultation and training to employer partners on early talent, Handshake best practices and workflows
  • Establish strong relationships with external stakeholders and translate business needs into Handshake solutions
  • Leverage data to inform decision-making and refine early talent recruiting ROI strategies
  • Work closely with cross-functional partners like Sales, Success, Account Management, Support, Education/University partnerships team, Marketing, Insights, Product, User Research, Enablement, RevOps, etc.

EXTRA CREDIT

  • Has a high level of comfort facilitating meetings and delivering product training(s) with external customers
  • Has a high degree of collaborative spirit
  • Has a high degree of technical aptitude
  • Provides process improvement solutions to create team efficiencies

PERKS

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.

The below benefits are for full-time US employees.

🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company

💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching

🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching

💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend

📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development

💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office

🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days

🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers http://joinhandshake.com/careers. http://joinhandshake.com/careers.Your

Source: Handshake careers (Ashby)

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