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Overview
The Senior Customer Success Manager manages strategic customer accounts, drives product adoption and value realization, and supports retention, expansion, and advocacy.
Responsibilities
- Own relationships and success plans for strategic and complex accounts.
- Understand customer goals, challenges, environments, and desired outcomes.
- Lead value reviews, adoption conversations, business reviews, and executive engagements.
- Identify health, adoption, renewal, and escalation risks - then create action plans.
- Partner with Sales, Renewals, Support, Product, and Engineering to deliver customer outcomes.
- Represent the voice of the customer and share actionable feedback internally.
- Educate customers on products, best practices, training, and success programs.
- Maintain accurate account information, activities, risks, and plans in Salesforce and Gainsight.
- Track adoption, health, satisfaction, retention, and advocacy metrics.
- Mentor CSMs and contribute to process improvements and best practices.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Technical Account Management, Sales Engineering, or a related customer-facing role.
- Experience managing strategic or complex accounts in SaaS, software, IT infrastructure, or technology.
- Proven ability to improve adoption, customer outcomes, retention, or expansion.
- Strong communication, presentation, relationship-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong technical acumen and familiarity with software, licensing, networks, cloud, or IT environments.
- Experience with Salesforce, Gainsight, or similar CRM and customer success platforms.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across teams.
Preferred
- Experience with IT monitoring, observability, cybersecurity, databases, or infrastructure solutions.
- Customer Success, project management, or technical certifications.
- Experience with executive stakeholders, customer health scoring, success plans
- Experience mentoring CSMs or leading customer success initiatives.
Success Measures
Customer retention, product adoption, customer health and satisfaction, success-plan completion, escalation management, and contribution to team enablement
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Technical Account Management, Sales Engineering, or a related customer-facing role
- Experience managing strategic or complex accounts in SaaS, software, IT infrastructure, or technology
- Proven ability to improve adoption, customer outcomes, retention, or expansion
- Strong communication, presentation, relationship-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Strong technical acumen and familiarity with software, licensing, networks, cloud, or IT environments
- Experience with Salesforce, Gainsight, or similar CRM and customer success platforms
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across teams
- Experience with IT monitoring, observability, cybersecurity, databases, or infrastructure solutions
- Customer Success, project management, or technical certifications
- Experience with executive stakeholders, customer health scoring, and success plans
- Experience mentoring CSMs or leading customer success initiatives
SolarWinds Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SolarWinds and has not been reviewed or approved by SolarWinds.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage and related benefits are frequently characterized as solid parts of the package. Feedback suggests medical plans and general perks stand out compared with sentiments about base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is often highlighted positively. Feedback suggests time-away policies contribute meaningfully to overall satisfaction with benefits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support, inclusion groups, and a supportive workplace culture are emphasized. Feedback suggests these programs enhance the perceived value of the total rewards package.
SolarWinds Insights
What We Do
SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK® community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
