Basic Function
We are looking for a Senior Customer Success Specialist to join our Tax and Accounting division and play a critical role in helping our customers achieve meaningful, measurable outcomes from our products and services.
This is a post‑sale, customer‑facing role responsible for owning customer relationships across the full lifecycle from onboarding through renewal readiness and advocacy. You will act as a trusted advisor, ensuring customers achieve measurable business value from the company’s products and services. This role exists to accelerate customer time‑to‑value, drive adoption and retention, proactively manage risk, and support revenue protection and growth through strong partnerships and data‑driven engagement. The Customer Success Specialist independently manages a portfolio of customers, influences renewal and expansion outcomes in partnership with Sales, and serves as the internal advocate for customer priorities across Sales, Support, Professional Services, and Product.
This role operates with a high degree of independence, manages complex customer engagements, and partners closely with internal teams including Sales, Support, Professional Services, and Product.
Essential Duties and responsibilities
Lead outcome‑focused customer onboarding by validating customer business goals, success criteria, scope, and constraints, establishing onboarding and adoption plans, and coordinating with internal delivery teams to ensure customers achieve early, measurable business value rather than only technical implementation.
Develop, co‑create, and maintain Customer Success Plans that define customer business objectives, priority use cases, success metrics, milestones, and timelines, and use these plans as the primary framework for guiding ongoing engagement, alignment, and decision‑making.
Own proactive customer health management by monitoring adoption, engagement, support trends, survey feedback, and progress against milestones; maintaining accurate health assessments; identifying early warning signs of risk or churn; and initiating timely, data‑driven interventions.
Execute lifecycle‑based customer engagement strategies by conducting regular value‑based check‑ins, introducing new use cases and best practices, adjusting engagement cadence based on customer maturity and complexity, and continuously reinforcing delivered value to prevent stagnation.
Serve as the internal point of coordination for assigned accounts by aligning Sales, Support, Professional Services, and Product teams around customer priorities, risks, and outcomes, and by representing the customer’s voice to ensure a consistent and unified customer experience.
Plan and facilitate Executive Business Reviews that assess outcomes achieved versus plan, articulate value realized, highlight adoption and health insights, identify risks and mitigation actions, and align future priorities, using EBRs as a key checkpoint for renewal readiness.
Support customer renewals and expansion efforts by ensuring customers are renewal‑ready well in advance of contract milestones, identifying expansion opportunities based on outcomes achieved and value realized, reducing friction during the renewal process, and partnering with Sales on commercial discussions.
Build and nurture customer advocacy by identifying customers who have realized meaningful outcomes and facilitating advocacy activities such as references, case studies, testimonials, advisory councils, and speaking opportunities aligned to delivered value.
Resolve complex customer challenges by diagnosing root causes, leading cross‑functional resolution efforts, balancing immediate remediation with long‑term success considerations, and preventing recurrence of systemic issues.
Drive continuous improvement by collecting structured customer feedback, sharing insights with Product and Leadership teams, identifying recurring friction points across the customer base, and contributing to the refinement of onboarding, health monitoring, and engagement practices.
Other Duties
Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Job Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent
Experience: 4+ years of experience in a customer‑facing role such as Customer Success, Account Management, Consulting, Implementation.
Experience managing post‑sales customer relationships across the full lifecycle (onboarding, adoption, renewal readiness)
Experience working in a B2B, SaaS, technology, or solutions‑based environment
Experience supporting renewal and expansion efforts in partnership with Sales
Experience engaging with senior or executive‑level customer stakeholders
Foundational knowledge of Tax and Accounting concepts (knowledge of Audit, Tax, and CPA firms and how they operate, all highly preferred)
Preferred:
Hands on experience owning a book of business
Experience leading Executive Business Reviews (EBRs)
Familiarity with Customer Success tools and CRM systems (Salesforce, Certinia, etc)
Formal Customer Success or account management certifications
Experience contributing customer insights to product or process improvement initiatives
CPA certification
Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications: (First list requirements, followed by preferences.)
Required:
Demonstrated ability to own customer outcomes and value realization
Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret customer usage, engagement, and health data
Proven ability to manage complex customer situations independently
Strong cross‑functional collaboration skills across Sales, Support, Professional Services, and Product
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including facilitation of business‑focused customer discussions
Ability to prioritize, manage multiple accounts, and operate proactively in a dynamic environment
Travel requirements
>10%
Physical Demands
Normal office environment.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by most people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities and requirements.
To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.
Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
Compensation:
$71,300.00 - $124,500.00 USDThis role is eligible for Bonus.
Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process.
Additional Information:Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Information Systems, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing role such as Customer Success, Account Management, Consulting, Implementation
- Experience managing post-sales customer relationships across the full lifecycle
- Experience working in a B2B, SaaS, technology, or solutions-based environment
- Experience supporting renewal and expansion efforts in partnership with Sales
- Experience engaging with senior or executive-level customer stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to own customer outcomes and value realization
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret customer usage, engagement, and health data
- Proven ability to manage complex customer situations independently
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across Sales, Support, Professional Services, and Product
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to prioritize, manage multiple accounts, and operate proactively in a dynamic environment
Wolters Kluwer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away benefits are positioned as broad, spanning vacation and sick time plus paid holidays and other covered leave types. Paid parental and caregiver leave, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day contribute to a more comprehensive time-off offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as meaningful through access to a 401(k)/retirement plan paired with company matching and additional contribution features in some descriptions. This is reinforced by mentions of profit sharing and other long-term savings-oriented programs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented support stands out through adoption assistance and paid parental leave provisions. These benefits are described alongside other caregiver supports that extend beyond basic leave categories.
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What We Do
Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide. Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
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