Lead Customer Success Manager

Posted Yesterday
41 Locations
In-Office or Remote
100K-150K Annually
Expert/Leader
Legal Tech • Software
Organize data. Discover the truth. Act on it.
The Role
Leads strategic customer success for complex, high-value accounts while coaching the broader CSM team. Owns customer health, renewals, ROI reporting, executive business reviews, AI adoption, change management, and legal workflow transformation. Builds playbooks, trains peers, influences product and sales decisions, and develops expansion opportunities. The role requires deep legal technology, eDiscovery, litigation operations, or compliance-regulated environment expertise, along with executive credibility and commercial awareness.
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Posting Type

Remote/Hybrid

Job Overview

The Lead Customer Success Manager operates at the intersection of strategic customer consulting and internal team leadership. This role owns a portfolio of Premier Tier (PSP) accounts, which are the highest-value, most complex relationships in the business. This role also serves as a methodology leader, coaching resource, and execution standard-setter for the broader CSM team. The Lead CSM is accountable, not only for their own portfolio outcomes, but for the quality of AI adoption, change-management practice, and domain expertise that CSMs in their orbit deliver. This role shapes what excellence looks like.

Job Description and Requirements

Own Premier-Tier Customer Outcomes 

  • Deliver the full Premier Tier value proposition: orchestrate the PSP catalogue, coordinate the account team (TAM, Adoption Services, Executive Sponsor), and own the customer’s overall success program quality. 

  • Own customer health; make building the renewal business case a daily motion. 

  • Lead ROI Summaries, benchmarking reports, and executive-level Business Reviews that quantify impact and connect to customer C-suite priorities. 

  • Build VO champion relationships; deliver referenceable outcomes that Marketing and Sales leverage — and hold self accountable to referenceable account targets. 

Lead AI Adoption and Change Management at the Highest Level 

  • Serve as the team’s AI adoption and change-management exemplar: lead customers through comprehensive aiR workflow integration, advising on governance, defensibility, and how to transform legal practice. 

  • Own the conversation with GCs, senior partners, and legal ops leaders on what AI means for their team, their workflows, and their risk posture. Be the person customers trust to co-design AI-governed legal workflows. 

  • Use generative AI tools to accelerate success planning, VO creation, and customer prep, and model what this looks like for peers. 

  • Build repeatable AI adoption and change-management playbooks for your segment; contribute to the team’s Tier 1 methodology. 

Serve as a Methodology Leader and Internal Multiplier 

  • Own at least one department-level initiative per year with measurable business impact (e.g., AI adoption playbook development, Tier 1 methodology, change-management framework). 

  • Train and coach CSMs on VO quality, Tier 1 adoption, AI governance conversations, exec engagement, and success planning; serve as the practical expert peers go to before escalating to management. 

  • Represent the CSM function in cross-functional forums, product councils, or Sales alignment meetings; bring a documented customer perspective that shapes decisions. 

 

Execute with Executive Credibility and Commercial Awareness 

  • Maintain C-suite relationships across PSP accounts; be recognized by customer executives as a strategic peer and change-management advisor  

  • Partner with AEs and Sales leadership as a peer: bring account intelligence, surface growth signals, and co-develop expansion strategies, while maintaining the trusted advisor boundary. 

  • Anticipate and navigate complex stakeholder environments, including multi-entity global structures and political dynamics, without escalation dependency. 

What We’re Looking For 

  • 7–10 years in Customer Success, Consulting, or Strategic Account Management with demonstrable ownership of enterprise or premier-tier relationships 

  • Track record of driving measurable outcomes across complex, multi-stakeholder accounts at the executive level 

  • Proven ability to develop team methodology, playbooks, or enablement assets that improve peer performance 

  • C-suite credibility: able to lead exec-level conversations, challenge assumptions constructively, and influence strategic decisions 

  • Deep AI fluency: able to advise customers on aiR adoption strategy, AI governance, workflow defensibility, and the business case for AI-enabled legal practice transformation 

  • Change-management leadership: able to help customers build internal consensus, navigate resistance, and measure adoption by outcomes. 

  • Commercial awareness: understands renewal dynamics, growth signals, and how to support Sales without overstepping role boundaries 

 

Required 

  • Deep expertise in legal technology, eDiscovery, litigation operations, or a compliance-regulated environment. This role advises GCs and senior partners; domain credibility is non-negotiable 

 

Preferred 

  • Background in legal practice, litigation support, or legal operations; the ability to speak as a peer to senior legal professionals 

  • Experience owning Premier or paid success programs with defined SLAs and commercial accountability 

  • Gainsight advanced user; able to build or influence scorecard logic and reporting to drive team outcomes 

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.

The expected salary range for this role is between following values:

$100,000 and $150,000

The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position. 

Required Skills:

Account Management, Collaboration, Communication, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Relationships, Customer Retentions, Customer Success, Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, Team Leadership

Skills Required

  • 7-10 years of experience in Customer Success, Consulting, or Strategic Account Management
  • Demonstrable ownership of enterprise or premier-tier customer relationships
  • Track record of driving measurable outcomes across complex, multi-stakeholder accounts at the executive level
  • Experience developing team methodology, playbooks, or enablement assets that improve peer performance
  • Ability to lead executive-level conversations, challenge assumptions constructively, and influence strategic decisions
  • Deep AI fluency, including AI adoption strategy, AI governance, workflow defensibility, and AI-enabled legal practice transformation
  • Change-management leadership, including building consensus, navigating resistance, and measuring adoption outcomes
  • Commercial awareness of renewals, growth signals, and Sales partnership boundaries
  • Deep expertise in legal technology, eDiscovery, litigation operations, or a compliance-regulated environment
  • Background in legal practice, litigation support, or legal operations
  • Experience owning Premier or paid success programs with defined SLAs and commercial accountability
  • Advanced Gainsight user able to build or influence scorecard logic and reporting
  • Account management, collaboration, communication, CRM, customer relationship management, customer retention, customer success, relationship management, strategic planning, and team leadership

Relativity Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Relativity and has not been reviewed or approved by Relativity.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off options include discretionary time off and two company‑wide breaks each year, providing additional recharge time.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, telehealth access, and wellness resources such as a Headspace subscription.
  • Parental & Family Support North America offers up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with comparable regional programs in EMEA and APAC.

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
1,550 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

At Relativity, we build innovative and comprehensive tools for making sense of unstructured data. When more people can find the facts in mountains of documents, emails, and texts, more legal and data-centric matters can be resolved equitably. Join us in our mission to help our customers organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Relativity makes software to help users organize data, discover the truth and act on it. Its SaaS product, RelativityOne, manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. Relativity has more than 300,000 users in approximately 40 countries serving thousands of organizations globally primarily in legal, financial services and government sectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice and 198 of the Am Law 200. Relativity does not tolerate racism or discrimination of any kind. We do not accept unfair treatment of any person or group of people. We’re committed to advocating for change to make our world a more inclusive, just place.

Why Work With Us

We believe in our team members and we want to help you own your career as part of a community of values-driven people who help customers around the world solve complex data challenges. At Relativity, you’ll take on challenging work, but you’ll also partner with talented colleagues and pursue plenty of learning and development opportunities.

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