Customer Success Manager, Director - Core (sales & Service) Clouds

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Chicago, IL +4

Salesforce is seeking a Director-level Customer Success Manager to act as a Strategic Value Partner for their most complex enterprise accounts. This role focuses on driving holistic success strategies, quantifying business impact and ROI, and managing complex programs. The role involves governing the integration of AI agents, establishing strategic guardrails, and managing AI-augmented workflows, while also focusing on risk management and incident governance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Customer Success, strategic leadership, and supporting enterprise-scale deployments, particularly within the Life Sciences or TMT industries.

What you'd actually do

  1. serve as the ultimate point of accountability for Signature Success delivery, driving renewals and expansion by orchestrating executive-level partnerships and quantifying the tangible ROI of the Salesforce investment.
  2. Architect strategic success roadmaps that align Salesforce’s platform evolution with the customer’s long-term corporate objectives, ensuring technical milestones translate into holistic business outcomes.
  3. Lead high-stakes, cross-functional initiatives across matrixed internal teams (Sales, Product, Engineering) to deliver seamless solutions for the most complex enterprise challenges.
  4. Govern the integration of autonomous AI agents and specialized digital coworkers, establishing the strategic guardrails and ethical alignment necessary for enterprise-scale AI adoption.
  5. Utilize deep usage telemetry and predictive analytics to identify and neutralize long-term (12-24 months) attrition risk and operational bottlenecks before they impact the business.

Skills

Required

  • Experience supporting customers in Life Sciences or Technology Media Telecommunication (TMT) industries
  • Experience supporting complex, enterprise-scale Sales/Service Cloud deployments
  • Expert knowledge of sales transformation and revenue operations excellence
  • Deep understanding of Sales Cloud architecture for global enterprises
  • Experienced business professional with 7+ years of relevant industry expertise in Customer Success, strategic leadership, SaaS platform use, or related strategic consulting fields.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills with demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the organization including executive and C-level.
  • Skills for both analyzing technical concepts and translating them into business terms and for mapping business requirements into technical features.
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts in business-friendly terms to customers, then explain customer needs to internal partners.
  • Experience working with Enterprise-level customers.
  • Experience leading efforts of cross-functional teams to facilitate resolution or disposition of customer needs or projects.

Nice to have

  • Direct experience with Life Sciences Cloud strongly preferred
  • Direct experience with Media Cloud strongly preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • AI Governance & Guardrails
  • autonomous AI agents
  • AI-augmented workflows