Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise (new England)

Abnormal AI · Vertical AI · United States · Remote · CSM & Renewals

This role is for a Senior Customer Success Manager focused on enterprise clients for an AI-powered security platform. The primary responsibility is to ensure customers realize the full value of the platform, driving adoption, retention, and expansion. This involves building strong relationships, understanding customer needs, providing strategic guidance, and acting as the voice of the customer internally. While the company is AI-focused, this role is customer-facing and does not involve direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the ‘voice of the customer’ and provide internal feedback on how we can better serve them to maximize customer value and retention.
  2. Schedule, prepare and deliver Business Reviews for customers, with the top priority of proving ROI that leads to renewals/expansion.
  3. Increase customer adoption of key platform features and best practices to maximize ROI, ensuring the basis for retention, satisfaction, and growth.
  4. Understand your customer’s industry trends, business challenges with email security, and current and potential use cases for Abnormal.
  5. With understanding of customer needs, establish a strategic, trusted advisor relationship at the highest relevant levels by guiding the customer on best practice usage of the platform to manage risk and meet/exceed their objectives.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years experience in a CSM capacity
  • 6+ yrs. experience in an enterprise SaaS product support environment
  • Strong experience with building and developing long-lasting executive-level relationships
  • Action-oriented
  • Soft skills oriented towards developing and retaining a customer’s trust and de-escalating their issues
  • Strong analytical and organizational skills
  • Strong written, spoken, and presentation skills
  • Proven ability to introduce and review new product features, best practices, and follow up with customers to advance desired platform adoption/usage
  • Strong technical troubleshooting skills
  • Previous experience with Internet and networking technologies and products, including email security products
  • Well versed with using case management systems and CRM’s (e.g., SFDC / JIRA)
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering/ Computer Science, Electronics and Communications Engineering or non-graduates with good communication skills, strong technical knowledge or similar work experience

Nice to have

  • passion for AI
  • growth mindset
  • AI-assisted coding tools

What the JD emphasized

  • world-class track record of creating and sustaining happy, referenceable customers
  • exceptional ability to establish and nurture stakeholder relationships
  • measurable success criteria is established and attained
  • driving adoption of platform best practices to optimize ROI
  • anticipating and proactively de-escalating issues with scalable solutions
  • feedback loop for key product enhancements / improvement requests
  • 6+ yrs. experience in an enterprise SaaS product support environment
  • building and developing long-lasting executive-level relationships
  • providing an outstanding overall customer experience (measurable in the form of an achieved health score, account retention/growth rate, and % referenceable customers)
  • develop and retaining a customer’s trust and de-escalating their issues
  • understand and review the financial return or ROI on the customer’s investment
  • technical troubleshooting skills
  • collaborate, coordinate and escalate issues within a team of product support professionals
  • Internet and networking technologies and products, including email security products
  • proving ROI that leads to renewals/expansion
  • Increase customer adoption of key platform features and best practices to maximize ROI
  • Maintain a deep understanding of our product and roadmap
  • guide customers to success
  • advance desired platform adoption/usage
  • establish a strategic, trusted advisor relationship
  • advocate for the platform based on their positive experience
  • understand their evolving strategy for email security
  • formulate/maintain a Success Plan outlining how Abnormal Security addresses their immediate and future needs (with success metrics)
  • Proactively monitor customer health to reach out to customers before risks or issues
  • escalate and identify remediation options
  • work with Engineering to stabilize customer’s advanced reporting needs based on repeated case escalations
  • ensure all commitments are met