The role, in a nutshell:
The Senior Manager of Customer Success Management (CSM) will report to the Director of Customer Success, working collaboratively to achieve the company's goals and enhance customer success initiatives.
As a key leadership role within the Customer Success organization, the Sr. Manager of CSM will partner closely with other Customer Success leaders in building and shaping the function. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong people management skills, experience building out a CSM function (i.e. customer engagement, account management and retention strategies), and a mindset of driving operational excellence and scale.
What you’ll do:
- Leadership and People Management:
- Build, lead and mentor a team of CSMs, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
- Provide guidance and support for career development, performance management, and skill enhancement within the team.
- Strategic Planning, Building and Execution:
- Collaborate with the CSM and Professional Services leaders to develop and execute the overall strategy for Customer Success at Chainguard.
- Drive the creation of customer engagement strategies to meet adoption, retention, and growth targets.
- Develop processes in the lens of value and customer experience. Institute scale and automation in order to accomplish more with less over time.
- Customer Management:
- Ensure a thorough grasp of adoption metrics across the customer base and collaborate with CSMs to devise actionable plans for mitigating churn risk and promoting account expansion.
- Conduct account deep dives to drive adoption and account level objectives.
- Stay informed about escalated accounts, take charge in resolving issues, offer leadership support to the team and customers as needed, and provide regular updates to senior leadership.
- Client Engagement and Advocacy:
- Work closely with customers to understand their unique requirements and challenges.
- Build strong client relationships at the Executive level to understand their workflow, prioritize Chainguard engagements, drive customer satisfaction and position account growth.
- Serve as the voice of the customer within the organization, providing insights and feedback to drive product improvements and innovations
- Retention and Growth:
- Collaborate with GTM, Product, and Engineering teams to drive adoption, customer retention, and growth.
- Utilize insights from customer adoption data to develop precise renewal forecasts. Collaborate closely with the sales team to generate a weekly forecast aggregation, projecting at least six months into the future.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Implement and refine operational processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness within the CSM team and engagement model.
- Monitor industry trends and best practices to stay ahead of market demands.
What we're looking for:
- At least 5+ years of proven experience in a leadership role, with a strong background in people management.
- Experience in Cybersecurity, DevOps, or an adjacent space
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; advanced degree preferred.
- Demonstrated success in building and scaling CSM functions.
- In-depth knowledge of project management methodologies and practices.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with both internal teams and external clients and executive level personas
- We are remote friendly, but this role needs to be based in the United States.
About Us
Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.
Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.
Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.
We live and breathe our company values:
We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard’s Privacy Policy.
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What We Do
Chainguard is the secure foundation for building with open source software. The company's portfolio of secure, minimal container images helps organizations embrace a new culture of software development where starting left with security, not shifting left, is the reality. Chainguard was founded by the industry's leading experts on software supply chain security, open source, software, and cloud-native development. We aren't a traditional security vendor. It's container images provide secure-by-default infrastructure that introduces zero friction to developer workflows. That's why developers love and CISOS trust Chainguard. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading technology and security companies, including Anduril, Canva, Domino Data Lab, Checkmarx, HPE, GitLab, Snowflake, and Wiz. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia, and Spark Capital.
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Security is our mission, but having fun is our mantra. Since our founding, we've increased +1M memes, sung 900+ hours of Kubernetes-themed karaoke, and created 774+ whacky Slack emojis. Beyond this, Chainguard's innovation and leadership in open source and software supply chain security has been recognized by industry leaders.
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