Customer Success Manager, Commercial, West Region

Vanta · Enterprise · U.S. · Remote · Revenue

Vanta is seeking a Customer Success Manager to guide commercial clients through their security and compliance journeys using Vanta's specialized solutions. The role involves managing a portfolio of customers, driving onboarding, implementation, renewals, and identifying upsell opportunities. The CSM will act as a trusted advisor, providing product expertise and influencing Vanta's strategy based on customer feedback to ensure customer success and retention.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead all post-sales activities for Vanta’s upmarket customers through onboarding, implementation, product expertise, renewal and identify upsell opportunities.
  2. Carry a BoB of ~50 customers ranging 401 to 2000 employee accounts.
  3. Partner with Account Managers to drive renewal and expansion opportunities within your book of business.
  4. Act as the voice of the customer within Vanta.
  5. Serve as the point of contact for your customers and drive them to specific business outcomes on their timelines.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience in Customer Success at a SaaS company
  • Extensive experience with high-end exposure to C-level executives
  • Ability to build strong trusted relationships
  • Providing top-notch account management and relationship building
  • Ability to be nimble and agile
  • Clear and thoughtful communication skills
  • Strong critical thinking ability
  • Highly empathetic to customers
  • Proven track record of long-term customer retention
  • Experience with hitting retention targets
  • Possess the technical competency to understand Vanta’s software
  • Build great relationships with highly technical customers
  • Stellar problem-solving chops
  • Enthusiasm for making a large impact early on at a start-up

Nice to have

  • Experience working in the security or compliance industry
  • Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work

What the JD emphasized

  • security and compliance outcomes
  • retention of customers
  • health of the book of business
  • customer success
  • customer experience
  • security-minded software companies
  • customer goals
  • successful and happy
  • customer success
  • onboarding
  • implementation
  • product expertise
  • renewal
  • upsell opportunities
  • book of business
  • renewal and expansion opportunities
  • voice of the customer
  • point of contact
  • business outcomes
  • trusted advisor relationship
  • renewals
  • expansion
  • advocacy
  • Vanta’s strategy
  • product priorities
  • adoption and retention
  • voice of the customer
  • customer business issues
  • mutual goals
  • Customer Success
  • SaaS company
  • high-end exposure to C-level executives
  • strong trusted relationships
  • top-notch account management
  • relationship building
  • Quarterly Business Reviews
  • Health Check Ins
  • Executive summaries
  • nimble and agile
  • shifting priorities
  • security or compliance industry
  • clear and thoughtful communication skills
  • critical thinking ability
  • highly empathetic to customers
  • proven track record of long-term customer retention
  • hitting retention targets
  • creating happy, healthy customers
  • technical competency
  • Vanta’s software
  • highly technical customers
  • stellar problem-solving chops
  • enthusiasm for making a large impact early on
  • AI to amplify their skills
  • strengthen their work
  • curiosity
  • willingness to learn
  • sound judgment
  • applying AI responsibly
  • improve efficiency and impact