Senior Customer Success Manager

Delinea
AE
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior customer success professionals comfortable with cybersecurity best practices and multi-geographical client management.

Best fit for

  • Cybersecurity-focused CSMs with privilege access management expertise and director-level client experience.
    — “Knowledgeable in privilege access management and cybersecurity best practices
  • Technical customer advocates who can bridge product capabilities to business outcomes.
    — “provide business and technical solutions to help customers optimize use of solution
  • Process-builders who develop scalable methods for customer communication and health monitoring.
    — “Develop and implement scalable methods for communicating best practices to customers

Things to consider

  • Expect to interface with complex, multi-divisional clients across geographies.
    — “multi-divisional, multi-geographical clients, preferably at the director level
  • Renewal and expansion targets are explicit responsibilities.
    — “Work closely with renewals teams to drive renewals and with sales teams to drive expansions

How to stand out

  • Highlight specific Privilege Access Service platform experience beyond Delinea's product.
    — “Experience with other Privilege Access Service solutions such as CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Thycotic, etc.
  • Quantify past success in reducing customer churn or driving expansions.
    — “promote retention and loyalty
  • Demonstrate cross-functional collaboration with support, sales, and product teams.
    — “Work with professional services, technical support and regional sales team
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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

What success looks like

  • customer retention
  • loyalty
Typical background
sales or customer service experienceproduct knowledge

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer Success ManagementProduct SpecialistClient Advocacy

Preferred

Sales OperationsProduct Management

Stack & domain

Customer Account ManagementSales TeamsProfessional ServicesTechnical SupportSales OperationsProduct ManagementCustomer Issues ResolutionCustomer RelationshipsCustomer SuccessCustomer RetentionCustomer LoyaltyCustomer Business And Technical ObjectivesCustomer Success CriteriaCustomer Strategic GoalsClient AdvocacyProduct SpecialistCustomer-centric SolutionsCustomer OutcomesCommunication SkillsProblem-solvingTeamworkLeadershipCustomer FocusStrategic ThinkingNegotiationInfluenceCollaborationCustomer ServiceRelationship BuildingCustomer AdvocacyCustomer ManagementSales

About the role

This role involves managing customer accounts by addressing their technical and business needs, ensuring smooth onboarding, and fostering long-term relationships to drive customer loyalty and retention. Ideal candidates are experienced in customer success or related fields, with a strong background in cybersecurity and privilege access management.

Original posting from Delinea via Ashby

About Delinea:

Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com http://Delinea.com, LinkedIn https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fdelinea%2F&data=05%7C02%7CMichele.Eaton%40delinea.com%7C766420d58b9a492d94ca08ddd6949f59%7C18d6ed03f0e5486183d2bb7b6c7c2bb2%7C0%7C0%7C638902656186877399%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=b1LCPIWSjxvblUYLlabUnRZ43S8rcspTQcBZsz0UbmU%3D&reserved=0, X https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fdelineainc&data=05%7C02%7CMichele.Eaton%40delinea.com%7C766420d58b9a492d94ca08ddd6949f59%7C18d6ed03f0e5486183d2bb7b6c7c2bb2%7C0%7C0%7C638902656186902236%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=goZhva9hWR8F0P5pO6SQUEwigdbvbZiWqmw5%2BHhhf1A%3D&reserved=0, and YouTube https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F%40Delinea&data=05%7C02%7CMichele.Eaton%40delinea.com%7C766420d58b9a492d94ca08ddd6949f59%7C18d6ed03f0e5486183d2bb7b6c7c2bb2%7C0%7C0%7C638902656186928751%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uXgjuXTFu4kHWBJZ1XdNWN88Mrk5iT9Y24Ejw8fFBi8%3D&reserved=0.

Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.

Apply today to help us achieve our mission.

Customer Success Manager Position Summary

The Customer Success Manager is responsible for the day to day management of assigned customer accounts. This includes working closely with sales teams, professional services, technical support, sales operations, and product management to understand and resolve customer issues. This position focuses on championing customer-centric solutions and outcomes in support of developing customer relationships that promote retention and loyalty. You will have a strong understanding of customers’ business and technical objectives and success criteria and the ability to identify and articulate how Delinea supports achievement of customers’ strategic goals.

What You’ll Do:

· Be the client advocate and product specialist for assigned customers

· Develop and implement scalable methods for communicating best practices to customers

· Identify at-risk accounts, and take appropriate action and/or escalate as needed

· Deliver remote services to new and existing customers including: software installation and configuration, onboarding, and training

· Work with professional services, technical support and regional sales team to ensure smooth onboarding of new customers

· Regularly monitor customer health, and communicate results with regional sales team, support and renewals team

· Ensure positive customer experiences by proactively managing and growing customer relationships, including identifying key stakeholders

· Work closely with renewals teams to drive renewals and with sales teams to drive expansions

· Review client requests with technical support, product management and regional sales team and escalate as necessary

· Schedule and conduct regular reviews with customers and communicate results

· Develop, prepare, and nurture customers for advocacy

· Responsible for ongoing customer communication re: introductions, announcements (e.g., upcoming features & products); events such as User Conferences, webinars, etc.

What You’ll Bring:

· BA/BS preferred or equivalent experience

· 4+ years of experience in a similar role as a Customer Success Manager, Helpdesk Manager, Support Engineer, Professional Services Consultant or Sales Engineer

· Knowledgeable in privilege access management and cybersecurity best practices

· Experience with other Privilege Access Service solutions such as CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Thycotic, etc. is a big plus

· Comfortable interfacing directly with complex, multi-divisional, multi-geographical clients, preferably at the director level

· Ability to understand high level technical aspects of the product, provide business and technical solutions to help customers optimize use of solution

· Competency with Salesforce and Customer Success Management platforms

· Ability to multi-task, problem solve, and work cross-functionally in a dynamic environment

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Why work at Delinea?

  • We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.
  • We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.
  • What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

  • Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do
  • Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments
  • Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team
  • Ownership - We take initiative and follow through
  • Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment
  • Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.

Source: Delinea careers (Ashby)

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