Manager, Customer Success (Bellevue, WA / Chicago, IL) at LogicGate in Chicago, IL OR Bellevue, WA

Job description

• As the Manager of Customer Success, you will act as a force multiplier for a high-performing team, driving engagement and reinforcing a culture of accountability. While balancing people leadership with strategic oversight of a client portfolio, you will coach your team to master complex enterprise renewals, mitigate churn risks, and help our clients maximize business value through our leading AI GRC platform, Risk Cloud.
• This role requires up to 50% travel to maintain strong customer relationships, support strategic account engagement, and collaborate with internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• People Leadership & Coaching: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Customer Success Managers across both the United States and the United Kingdom. Drive professional growth by conducting regular career development conversations, managing performance cycle frameworks, and building the team's collective commercial and GRC expertise.
• Commercial & Retention Accountability: Own team-level renewal, retention, and expansion performance metrics. Maintain absolute visibility into your team's book of business, accurately tracking forecasts and actively engaging to support your direct reports in proactive "save" activities for at-risk accounts.
• Strategic Escalation Support: Serve as a point of issue escalation and provide a meaningful leadership presence on complex customer situations. Step into multi-threaded enterprise accounts when a leadership voice is required, coaching CSMs on how to navigate difficult commercial conversations with executive stakeholders.
• Process & Playbook Innovation: Assist with the continuous improvement of the Customer Success department by developing, maintaining, and scaling internal standards, operational playbooks, and customer retention strategies.
• Goal Alignment & Stewardship: Cascade company and department objectives to your team using the OKR framework. Partner with direct reports to establish, review, and measure clear business targets and individual growth areas within Lattice.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner seamlessly with Sales, Implementation Services, and Product teams to eliminate friction across customer handoffs, deliver Executive Business Reviews, and share product feedback internally.
• AI Adoption Advocacy: Coach your team on how to strategically advise customers on leveraging Risk Cloud’s built-in AI capabilities and automated workflows. Model an innovative mindset by encouraging the utilization of generative AI tools to optimize daily workflows, documentation, and internal efficiencies.
• Talent Cultivation: Actively participate in the employee lifecycle by refining role scopes, interviewing diverse talent, and making thoughtful leveling and compensation recommendations.

Requirements

• Required
• Professional Experience: 5+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or an enterprise client-facing role within the B2B SaaS ecosystem.
• Leadership Track Record: 2+ years of formal people management or dedicated team leadership experience with direct accountability for team-level retention, forecasting, and coaching outcomes.
• Configurable SaaS Experience: Experience working within a highly configurable low-code/no-code SaaS environment serving risk, compliance, or security practitioners.
• Coaching Mastery: Demonstrated ability and passion for developing individual contributors and driving results through regular feedback, career pathing, and effective performance management.
• Stakeholder Navigation: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally across Sales, Product, and Services to manage multi-stakeholder enterprise risks.
• Enterprise Focus: Deep knowledge and experience working with the world’s largest companies to deliver outcomes and drive success for their business,
• Ecosystem Familiarity: Hands-on familiarity with customer success management platforms (e.g., Planhat, Salesforce) and comfort using Google suite and Slack.
• Domain Credibility: Robust GRC, risk management, or compliance industry knowledge that allows you to guide account strategy and serve as a credible subject-matter resource for your team.
• Technical & AI Curiosity: A forward-thinking mindset with a demonstrated curiosity for utilizing Generative AI tools to optimize documentation, asset creation, or team workflows.

Skills

Required

• Customer success management
• Account management
• Enterprise client-facing experience
• People management
• Team leadership
• Retention and forecasting
• Coaching and development
• Communication and presentation
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Stakeholder navigation
• Configurable SaaS environment
• Low-code/no-code SaaS

Preferred

• Google suite and Slack
• Generative AI tools

Benefits

• We are proud to offer a variety of competitive, inclusive, and comprehensive total rewards that are designed to support the unique needs of our employees both inside and outside of the workplace.
• In addition to offering competitive salary and variable compensation plans, equity options, and flexible health and wellness benefits, we are proud to offer generous PTO, Annual Company Holidays, Health Days, and Summer Fridays.
• Employees' growth and development are supported throughout their career journey through informal and formal programs and activities, including access to LinkedIn Learning, regular People Leader training, and our internal Mentorship Program.
• The anticipated base salary range for the role is $115,000 - $140,000 per year + variable + equity + benefits. Actual salaries may vary and will be based on factors, such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Internal candidates who have current pay within or above the hiring range are still encouraged to apply if interested.