Senior Technical Success Manager

Snyk Snyk · Enterprise · Boston, MA

This role is a Senior Technical Success Manager at Snyk, a company focused on secure AI software development. The role involves being a strategic advisor to top-tier enterprise customers, architecting their vision for securing development lifecycles in the AI era, and guiding them through DevSecOps transformations. It requires building trusted relationships, designing onboarding programs, advocating for customer needs, and demonstrating ROI through data-driven reviews. While the company is AI-focused and the role operates within the AI era, the core function is customer success and strategic advisory, not direct AI/ML model development or engineering.

What you'd actually do

  1. Orchestrate near, mid, and long-term visions and strategies for enterprise customers, ensuring they realize full value across their Application Security workflows.
  2. Build and foster trusted relationships with leaders within customer engineering and security organizations to drive adoption and retention.
  3. Design and execute customized onboarding programs that help customers achieve their specific security program goals using Snyk’s suite of products.
  4. Advocate internally for customer needs, working proactively with Product, Sales, and Support to influence roadmaps and mitigate risks.
  5. Prepare and facilitate strategic business review meetings (QBRs) using storytelling backed by data to demonstrate ROI and identify expansion opportunities.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role
  • Successfully engaging with executives and technologists to solve business problems with advanced technologies
  • Experience working closely with highly technical customers within the Enterprise (Fortune 100) space in North America
  • Strong working knowledge of Developer or Application Security tools and workflows (e.g., GitHub, Jira, Jenkins, VS Code)
  • Experience leading technical or engineering programs
  • Proven record of thought leadership and business case development
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Ability to facilitate challenging discussions
  • Handle objections
  • Influence stakeholders from end-users to executives
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Ability to thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment

Nice to have

  • Developer background
  • coding experience
  • deep familiarity with modern DevOps environments
  • Prior experience in a direct or matrixed role leading technical transformation project teams
  • History of problem-solving and innovation in developing technology programs
  • Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, technology, engineering, math, business, or equivalent experience
  • Translating complex technical wins into clear business value

What the JD emphasized

  • secure AI software development
  • AI transforms how software is built
  • empower every developer to innovate securely in the AI era
  • secure their development lifecycles in the AI era
  • navigate change management
  • unlocking business value through data-driven analysis
  • Application Security workflows
  • customer needs
  • technical challenges