At CoLab, we help engineering teams bring life-changing products to the world years sooner. Our platform is the world’s first Design Engagement System (DES) - a category defining product that Engineering teams use to engage in meaningful, productive design conversations, catch preventable mistakes, and get to market faster. Our customers include the largest engineering organizations in the world spanning from industrial equipment, consumer products, automotive, aerospace & defense, and shipbuilding industries.
About the roleAs a Strategic Customer Success Manager, you will serve as a trusted advisor to our most complex, global enterprise customers. You will lead the post-sale customer journey, driving business transformation and ensuring customers effectively adopt CoLab to achieve measurable ROI. You’ll drive executive alignment, identify and mitigate risks, surface expansion opportunities, and collaborate cross-functionally to maximize customer value.
You will collaborate with Sales partners to support growth and retention and work closely with a team of Customer Engineering Advisors to enable customer teams on CoLab’s capabilities. Your role is to execute a customer success strategy that drives retention, value realization, and long-term growth.
In-person customer engagement is a key part of this role’s success. On-site visits have consistently driven higher adoption, deeper relationships, and better business outcomes for our customers. We recognize personal travel constraints may arise and we expect Strategic CSMs to proactively plan for and prioritize in-person opportunities.
Twice annually we bring together all CoLabers at our HQ in St. John’s, Newfoundland (typically in June and December), to participate in company Team Week.
- Own gross revenue retention (GRR) across your book of business, with strong influence over NRR and account growth
- Define and communicate a clear customer success strategy aligned to their goals and CoLab’s expansion motion
- Lead executive engagement, stakeholder mapping, and success planning to drive measurable outcomes
- Lead structured executive business reviews that translate CoLab usage to measurable outcomes and business impact
- Coach customers to take ownership of their outcomes and proactively challenge the status quo to unlock ROI
- Manage project timelines, stakeholders, and implementation milestones in a structured way to maximize product adoption & customer value
- Drive outcomes with a bias for urgency, balancing quality execution with time-to-value
- Collaborate with Sales on growth strategy, account planning, and renewal execution
- Identify risks early, define and execute action plans, escalate with urgency
- Leverage usage data, customer feedback, and adoption insights to inform strategy and measure success
- Support champions in building internal case studies and advocacy to accelerate adoption and expansion
- Partner with champions to drive change management, optimize engineering workflows, and accelerate time-to-value
- Partner with Sales in late-stage deals to shape rollout plans and success metrics
- Drive internal CS maturity by contributing to playbooks, onboarding assets, and scalable frameworks
- Act as a leader across the GTM org, modeling cross-functional alignment, ownership, and high performance
- 7+ years in Customer Success, Strategic Consulting, or Enterprise Account Management
- Proven success driving enterprise transformation and value realization across global Fortune 1000 accounts
- Experience with customer journey orchestration and success planning in a high-ACV SaaS environment
- Track record of partnering with Sales to shape and execute multi-threaded expansion strategies in large, complex organizations
- Familiarity with navigating complex procurement, security, and compliance processes in enterprise accounts
- Strong executive presence and communication skills
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Highly organized, data-driven, and accountable
- Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time
- Experience supporting engineering or manufacturing customers (CAD, PLM, or technical tools)
- Familiarity with land-and-expand SaaS motions
- Background in vertical SaaS (e.g., construction tech, industrial IoT, logistics)
- Excel at translating product functionality into customer value in a technical domain
- Take ownership of customer outcomes and internal clarity
- Thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment where processes are still being shaped
- Are energized by solving complex customer challenges
- Lead strategic conversations with confidence and clarity
- Excel at cross-functional collaboration, even in ambiguous territory
- Operate with urgency and proactively mitigate risk
- Translate product signals into actionable customer strategy
Skills Required
- 7+ years in Customer Success, Strategic Consulting, or Enterprise Account Management
- Proven success driving enterprise transformation and value realization across global Fortune 1000 accounts
- Experience with customer journey orchestration and success planning in a high-ACV SaaS environment
- Track record partnering with Sales to shape and execute multi-threaded expansion strategies in large, complex organizations
- Familiarity navigating complex procurement, security, and compliance processes in enterprise accounts
- Strong executive presence and communication skills
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Highly organized, data-driven, and accountable
- Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time
- Experience supporting engineering or manufacturing customers (CAD, PLM, or technical tools)
- Familiarity with land-and-expand SaaS motions
- Background in vertical SaaS (construction tech, industrial IoT, logistics)
CoLab Software Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CoLab Software and has not been reviewed or approved by CoLab Software.
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Affordable Benefits — Health and dental insurance are covered 100% for the employee, reducing out-of-pocket costs. Listings align with the stated package, indicating consistent core coverage across sources.
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Retirement Support — RRSP and 401(k) matching are explicitly included for Canada and the United States. This provides structured long-term savings support as part of the standard package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO covers vacation, personal, sick, and bereavement time. The breadth of leave options signals flexibility in time away from work.
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What We Do
At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner. CoLab is the AI platform for driving stronger engineering decisions. Every design review in CoLab builds a knowledge repository of design feedback, decisions, and lessons learned - which AI agents draw from to flag issues on future designs before they compound. The more your team works in CoLab, the smarter it gets and the faster you arrive at the ideal design. Companies like Ford, Komatsu, and Johnson Controls use CoLab to catch issues earlier, eliminate rework cycles, and bring products to market faster.
Why Work With Us
At CoLab, we work hard, celebrate wins together, and continuously strive to improve our craft. You'll be surrounded by driven, supportive teammates who are passionate about solving complex challenges for customers and building technology that helps some of the world's leading engineering teams collaborate and make better decisions.
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