Principal Customer Success Manager

PagerDuty PagerDuty · Enterprise · Lisbon, Portugal · Customer Success

PagerDuty is seeking a Principal Customer Success Manager to build and foster executive-level relationships with customers, guiding them on PagerDuty product adoption and driving business value. The role requires strong product knowledge, understanding of IT enterprise architecture, DevOps principles, and SaaS business models, with a focus on helping customers accelerate their digital journey using AI/ML and Automation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and foster executive-level trusted advisor relationships with the customer’s IT, Engineering and Support organizations.
  2. Demonstrates hands-on PagerDuty Product knowledge by applying it to the customer's business priorities.
  3. Guide a customer on process, people and change management best practices to drive customers adoption of real time operations.
  4. Proactively identify risks to the customer achieving their stated business goals and work with the sales team to build a risk mitigation plan.
  5. Produce and execute a comprehensive adoption path of PagerDuty products, showing the current state, target future state with timeline.

Skills

Required

  • 5-10 years relevant industry expertise
  • Experience building business value ROI models
  • Working knowledge in a SaaS business model
  • Strong understanding of IT enterprise architecture, DevOps principles and modern IT monitoring
  • Ability to travel to client sites as necessary

Nice to have

  • Strong consulting skills and proven results working as a trusted advisor to drive business value for customers.
  • Thrive in a collaborative fast pace environment and as a part of a results oriented team.
  • Ability to drive effective and influencing conversations at the C-level; facilitation of difficult discussions and adept at handling objections.
  • Worked in a DevOps environment or with a company going through a transition to DevOps.

What the JD emphasized

  • Strong knowledge of PagerDuty product and platform features and capabilities is highly desired.