Sr. Manager, Customer Success

Samsara Samsara · Enterprise · Denver, CO · Remote · Customer Success

This role is for a Senior Manager of Customer Success at Samsara, focusing on transforming customer engagement at scale for mid-market customers. The role involves building and leading a team, developing segmentation strategies, and implementing AI-driven engagement programs to improve customer adoption, retention, and expansion. While the role leverages AI tools and aims to integrate AI into workflows, its core function is customer success management and product adoption, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Segmentation strategy: determine customer segmentation into service tiers and engagement models that blend targeted human interactions and scalable programs for a high-volume portfolio of mid-market accounts in the US private sector
  2. Renewal outcomes: drive retention as the primary lens for every operating decision, not a reporting exercise
  3. Expansion collaboration: partner with Sales to drive growth within accounts
  4. Product adoption: work with CSMs to drive breadth and depth of product adoption
  5. People leadership: hire, develop, and manage a team of CSMs, each managing portfolios of 100+ accounts

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of experience in Customer Success or Account Management
  • 4+ years of direct people management experience leading CSMs or similar customer-facing roles with a portfolio of 100+ accounts each
  • Demonstrated experience building or significantly redesigning a scale, tech-touch, or digital CS model with measurable retention or expansion outcomes
  • Demonstrated ownership or significant influence over retention and expansion outcomes
  • Strong analytical capability; comfortable using data to drive prioritization, segmentation, and performance management.
  • Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, organizational change, and fast growth in a high-volume environment
  • Bachelor’s degree from a 4-year accredited institution

Nice to have

  • Experience at a SaaS company with a hardware or IoT component
  • Experience integrating AI into CS workflows to drive measurable team productivity
  • Advanced proficiency with Gainsight (or similar customer suc

What the JD emphasized

  • explicit mandate to transform how Samsara engages customers at scale
  • holding accountability for renewal outcomes
  • set the standard for what great Scale CS looks like
  • make it fundamentally better
  • significantly redesigning a scale, tech-touch, or digital CS model with measurable retention or expansion outcomes
  • significant influence over retention and expansion outcomes
  • lead through ambiguity, organizational change, and fast growth in a high-volume environment