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Customer Success Manager - Slack

Salesforce

California - San Francisco | Washington - Seattle, US$123k – $227konsite

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Role Description

The Customer Success Manager (CSM) is a versatile expert responsible for ensuring high-value customers who purchase the Signature Success Plan achieve a significant return on their investment with our platform. This role functions as an extension of the customer’s workforce and a trusted advisor, providing guidance and advice to customer organizations. The CSM is responsible for identifying and addressing both technical and business concerns, aligning them strategically with customer priorities, projects, and problems.

Our Customer Success team advises and guides a wide variety of customers, ensuring they launch Slack successfully, adopt it widely, and continuously gain business value from our products and services. We serve as the trusted point of contact for Slack’s strategic key customers across the customer lifecycle. Part coach, project manager, consultant, and product specialist, our Slack CSMs work closely with customers to discover their business needs and challenges and then mentor them on the best ways to use Slack to tackle them.

Your Impact

Customer Accountability and Value Alignment • Conduct maturity assessments and build Slack adoption roadmaps.

• Serve as the single point of customer accountability responsible for the delivery of all Signature deliverables, the overall customer experience, and renewal and expansion.

• Coordinate all deliverables the customer is entitled to, overseeing the experience throughout the Signature lifecycle.

• Apply the correct processes to address customer needs and ensure value is delivered through the Signature offer.

• Successfully align with and manage both Business and Technical Stakeholders, focusing on aligning Business Value and Technical Goals to the Signature offer.

• Prioritize the most urgent work activities, organize tasks to avoid missing key steps, and create basic plans to focus time, taking responsibility for assigned tasks.

• Use internal resources to increase effectiveness and rely on managers or mentors for guidance on priority problems.

• Conduct enablement sessions on opportunity and case management, forecasting, pipeline hygiene, knowledge creation, and omni-channel routing.

• Share best practices for sales and service process optimization, data quality, and customer experience.

Strategic Advisory and Stakeholder Managemen t • Drive adoption of Slack features with reps, agents, managers, supervisors, and ops teams.

• Track usage metrics (active users, messages, channel engagement, app usage) and accelerate adoption, maturity, and growth across Slack’s largest customers while ensuring each customer realizes maximum business value.

• Assess business requirements and advise on best practices for governance, channel structure, and workspace organization.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships at key stakeholder levels, including cultivating executive-level relationships within customer IT and business leadership.

• Act as a trusted advisor by gaining trust through mutual goals, understanding the customer’s business model, and applying proven solutions to their problems.

• Solidify partnership commitments and drive innovation aligned with customers' business challenges.

• Increase customer engagement with products and services and identify major political barriers to customer success.

• Partner with more experienced team members to solve complex problems and develop strategic success plans when needed.

• Conduct quarterly reviews of feature usage to drive adoption of tools like Journey Builder or Commerce Promotions, ensuring platform stability and performance.

• Identify underutilization of contracted entitlements (e.g., messaging volume or GMV tiers) and align platform features with customer priorities to increase throughput.

Technical Health, Adoption, and Risk Management •   AI Literacy: Proficiency in using AI agents to automate routine tasks such as meeting summaries, QBR data collection, and initial health monitoring.  

• Prompt Engineering Basics: Ability to use natural-language commands to guide AI agents in retrieving accurate customer data and generating first drafts of success plans.

• AI Engagement Monitoring: Using AI-driven sentiment and intent analysis to flag early customer concerns for human intervention.

• Collaborative Learning: Actively seeking out "Agentblazer" training and certifications to stay current on autonomous agent capabilities.

• Learning & Development: Apply product knowledge and expertise to address technical concerns, use this knowledge to ask effective diagnosis questions, and align platform features with customer priorities and roadmaps.

• Proactively monitor and conduct quarterly reviews, identify trends, and provide tailored release recommendations to ensure stability, performance, and feature enhancement.

• Serve as the primary interface for major incidents (e.g., checkout failures or email deliverability drops) to protect peak revenue.

• Forge strong multidisciplinary relationships with Sales, Engineering, and Product Management to lead and coordinate customer relationships for success and revenue opportunities.

• Form a clear

Salary insight

The midpoint of this range ($175k) is about 13% below the median disclosed salary for San Francisco roles listed on ForgeApply ($202k across 6,563 jobs).

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