Team Manager Customer Success

Box Box · Enterprise · Chicago, IL · Customer Success

This role is for a Team Manager of Customer Success at Box, a company focused on Intelligent Content Management and enterprise AI. The manager will lead a team of CSMs responsible for strategic and regulated customers, driving adoption, retention, and growth. Key responsibilities include coaching the team, designing strategic improvements, building customer confidence in Box AI, and partnering with cross-functional teams. The role requires strong leadership, customer relationship management, and an understanding of regulated industries and AI trends.

What you'd actually do

  1. Inspire, develop, and hold accountable a team of high-performing Customer Success Managers. Create clarity around goals and metrics, while coaching through challenging scenarios
  2. Design and drive strategic improvements to scale processes, services, and systems to enable the team to exceed adoption, retention, and growth objectives
  3. Build your team’s confidence in Box AI by modeling fluency in intelligent content management, metadata automation, and the AI-first era of work. Ensure CSMs can confidently connect AI use cases to regulated customer workflows
  4. Provide the team with guidance on building and maintaining strong customer relationships; serve as a coach in navigating challenging customer situations through proven Customer Success practices
  5. Partner with sales, renewals, consulting and other cross-functional leadership to drive business outcomes

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of experience managing customer relationships with a successful track record of driving retention and health
  • 3+ years of experience managing a team; a natural leader and passionate coach who inspires his/her team to elevate performance
  • Strong understanding of Financial Services, Life Sciences, and regulated industries
  • Customer obsessed, trusted advisor to key executives, able to articulate business value and influence retention/expansion decisions
  • Confidently discussing AI trends and Box AI capabilities with executives. Able to coach CSMs to lead AI-first customer conversations and translate innovation into adoption outcomes

Nice to have

  • Culture builder who champions belonging, resilience and team cohesion. Leads with transparency, growth mindset and inclusion
  • Collaborative team player with track record of partnering with sales, product and other cross-functional stakeholders to deliver results, help identify and close new business, and drive retention
  • Ability to thrive in a high-growth, fast-paced environment and adapt quickly to changing demands
  • Data-driven decision maker with a strong focus on execution and accountability
  • Proactive, organized problem-solver with the ability to execute at both the strategic and tactical level; able to roll up his/her sleeves to get things done
  • Strong operational rigor and effective project management skills; able to drive cross-functional collaboration to achieve results
  • Tech savvy and excited to learn Box's products; ability to evangelize our intelligent content management solution alongside a team of CSMs

What the JD emphasized

  • regulated customers
  • strict compliance
  • governance
  • mission-critical digital transformations
  • regulated customer workflows
  • regulated industries