Senior Manager, Customer Success Engineering

Postman Postman · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Sales

Senior Manager, Customer Success Engineering role at Postman, a leading API platform company. This role focuses on leading and managing Customer Success Engineers (CSEs) in EMEA and APAC, ensuring customer success and driving adoption of Postman's platform within enterprise engineering workflows. The position involves close collaboration with Sales leadership, operational excellence, proactive portfolio management, and contributing to the product feedback loop. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in post-sales technical roles, team leadership, and driving customer value outcomes in a SaaS environment. While the role involves technical aspects like APIs and developer workflows, it is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Hire, lead and develop Customer Success Engineers across EMEA and APAC, setting clear expectations for execution quality, accountability, customer impact, and proactive ownership.
  2. Serve as the primary CS operating partner to International Sales leadership, jointly prioritizing accounts, shaping retention and expansion strategies, and aligning CSE/EM capacity to the highest-impact opportunities.
  3. Run a tight operating cadence, including account prioritization, engagement inspection, KPI tracking, risk escalation, blocker resolution, and executive reporting.
  4. Own capacity allocation for their team. Drive adoption, value acceleration, and measurable customer outcomes across the region. Ensure teams identify customer risk, adoption gaps, and expansion opportunities early, operating proactively rather than reactively.
  5. Partner closely with Product to turn customer insights into actionable feedback. Ensure CSEs capture technical blockers, workflow patterns, implementation gaps, and emerging customer needs in a way that helps Product make better roadmap and prioritization decisions.

Skills

Required

  • Team Building
  • Sales Partnership
  • Operational Excellence
  • Proactive Portfolio Management
  • Product Feedback Loop
  • Business Impact & Expansion Support
  • Strategy & Scaling
  • 10+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Solutions Engineering, Strategic Consulting, or related SaaS customer-facing roles.
  • 5+ years leading high-performing post-sales or technical customer teams.
  • Experience managing globally distributed teams across EMEA and/or APAC.
  • Proven ability to drive adoption, retention, and customer value outcomes across complex enterprise accounts.
  • Strong operational leadership skills with experience building scalable processes, execution frameworks, operating cadences, and team accountability models.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in evolving environments and drive structure, clarity, and measurable execution.
  • Strong partnership orientation with Sales leadership and experience operating within enterprise pod-based account models.
  • Technically fluent in APIs, developer workflows, integrations, CI/CD systems, and modern software delivery practices.
  • Strong coaching, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
  • Highly proactive leader with strong ownership mentality and bias toward execution.

Nice to have

  • flexible schedule
  • flexible PTO
  • wellness reimbursement
  • monthly lunch stipend

What the JD emphasized

  • lead Customer Success Engineering in EMEA and APAC
  • manage CSEs
  • post-sale technical operator
  • scale an existing motion
  • raise the talent bar
  • create operational clarity
  • complex customer and GTM problems
  • measurable customer outcomes
  • 10+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Solutions Engineering, Strategic Consulting, or related SaaS customer-facing roles.
  • 5+ years leading high-performing post-sales or technical customer teams.
  • managing globally distributed teams across EMEA and/or APAC
  • drive adoption, retention, and customer value outcomes across complex enterprise accounts.
  • Strong operational leadership skills with experience building scalable processes, execution frameworks, operating cadences, and team accountability models.
  • operate effectively in evolving environments and drive structure, clarity, and measurable execution.
  • Strong partnership orientation with Sales leadership and experience operating within enterprise pod-based account models.
  • Technically fluent in APIs, developer workflows, integrations, CI/CD systems, and modern software delivery practices.
  • Strong coaching, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
  • Highly proactive leader with strong ownership mentality and bias toward execution.