Manager II, Customer Success
AI summary of the role
Manager II leading the US Scale Customer Success team, responsible for a high-volume portfolio of mid-market and large commercial customers.
What you’ll do
- Determine customer segmentation into service tiers and engagement models for a high-volume portfolio of mid-market accounts in the US private sector
- Drive retention as the primary lens for every operating decision
- Partner with Sales to drive growth within accounts
- Hire, develop, and manage a team of CSMs, each managing portfolios of 100+ accounts
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of experience in Customer Success or Account Management
- 2+ 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 for pooled CSMs with measurable retention or expansion outcomes
- Strong analytical capability; comfortable using data to drive prioritization, segmentation, and performance management
Technologies
Gainsight · AI · automation · digital programs · lifecycle workflows · IoT · SaaS
About Samsara
Connects fleets, equipment, sites, and frontline teams through IoT devices, software workflows, and AI for physical operations.
Public · 2000–5000 people
Source and classification
Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:
Equipment Monitoring. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term. About the role: Samsara’s Customer Success team ensures our customers adopt our platform, realize measurable business value, and renew and expand with confidence. As Manager II on the US Scale Customer Success team, you will lead a team responsible for a high-volume portfolio of mid-market and large commercial customers in the private sector. This is not a traditional CS leadership role. It is a builder role for a leader who drives renewal outcomes by making their team more effective — through better programs, cleaner signals, smarter automation, and sharper coaching. You will own the engagement model for your team: building the playbooks, building & improving digital, automated, lifecycle & AI-driven engagement programs, and coaching CSMs
More from the job description
Who we are Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy. Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale. Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring. As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term. About the role: Samsara’s Customer Success team ensures our customers adopt our platform, realize measurable business value, and renew and expand with confidence. As Manager II on the US Scale Customer Success team, you will lead a team responsible for a high-volume portfolio of mid-market and large commercial customers in the private sector. This is not [... source excerpt omitted ...] s a builder role for a leader who drives renewal outcomes by making their team more effective — through better programs, cleaner signals, smarter automation, and sharper coaching. You will own the engagement model for your team: building the playbooks, building & improving digital, automated, lifecycle & AI-driven engagement programs, and coaching CSMs from activity-based to outcome-based work. You will set the standard for what great Scale CS looks like, and personally step in when customers or situations demand it. The expectation is not just to run the team well — it is to make it fundamentally better. This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except Al [... source excerpt omitted ...] or whether power gets restored quickly after a natural disaster. You thrive the most when solving problems: Our constantly expanding technology and the complexities faced by our customers provide an exciting range of challenges for our Customer Success teams. With a growth mindset and a desire to learn, you will strategically partner with our customers to find unique solutions to help keep their operations safe, efficient, and sustainable. You are a natural relationship builder: Whether the relationship is with our customers or with cross-functional teams in Samsara, you are in constant communication and collaboration with key stakeholders to win as a team. You are the archit
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