Senior Manager, Customer Success
$120k - $150k USD
Drive CB Insights' growth as a leader of our Account Management team.
The role you'll play:
The Senior Manager of Account Management will contribute to the development of a world-class Customer Success team that ensures customers achieve their desired outcomes through the adoption of CB Insights’ software & services. You will lead a team of Customer Success Managers across a portfolio of assigned accounts, will collaborate with other teams across CB Insights and will engage directly with customers. Performance is evaluated upon specific metrics associated with customer on-boarding, product adoption, expansion & retention.
About the Account Management Team:
Working on our team is unique mostly because of our amazing clients, the problems we are helping them solve, and our team's diversity.
Every day our team speaks with the best and brightest people at Fortune 500 companies. Our clients are looking to us to help them solve interesting challenges on how some of the largest organizations in the world are adapting to emerging tech trends. Being a part of the CBI Customer Success team means being a part of that equation.
The uniqueness of the AM Team is driven by our group's diversity. You can look around and you'll find very few people with similar backgrounds. We each bring our own story which creates a very special environment for creativity, fun, strategy, and success.
Your Main Tasks:
- Lead a team of 6 Account Managers to increase team results & employee engagement.
- Establish goals, direct work & manage team member’s day-to-day activities including customer on-boarding, training, product adoption, expansion & renewals.
- Implement Account team recruitment, hiring, training & retention strategies.
- Develop & execute an effective customer on-boarding program to deliver customer value as quickly as possible.
- Work internally and across customer organizations to implement success plays to increase customer adoption of CB Insights platform.
- Advise team to develop & implement Account Plans for assigned accounts. Includes establishing communication & governance schedules to highlight value delivered to customers.
- Collaborate with Sales Leadership & Account Executives to support growth opportunities within key accounts.
- Design and implement customer retention and growth plays to increase renewal rates, seed growth opportunities, and reduce churn.
- Leverage predictive analytics to identify & mitigate at-risk accounts
- Consistently report results to senior management.
- Stay current on CB Insights products, competitive landscape and innovation trends.
Core Skills & Talents:
- Passion to raise performance levels of team members.
- Ability to establish credibility with key customer decision makers & influencers.
- Strong verbal & written communication abilities including strong presentation skills.
- Exceptional problem solving & analytical skills; formulate solutions that deliver real business value.
- Well organized; simultaneously manage a portfolio of direct reports, customer & internal relationships.
- A drive to exceed goals that is internal, constant & self-imposed.
What you bring to the table:
- B.S. or B.A. in business management, finance, economics or similar study. MBA preferred.
- 4+ years of prior account management and/or customer success experience, preferably within enterprise software or SaaS.
- 3-5 years leadership experience.
- Proven track record of managing enterprise client portfolios of at least $10 million.
- Expertise with Excel and CRMs, preferably Salesforce.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
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Please note this is a US-based role.
In addition to base salary listed below, this role is also eligible for commission.
Compensation
$120,000—$150,000 USD
What we're all about
CB Insights is the leader in predictive intelligence on private companies—turning exclusive data on millions of firms into early, trusted signals on future performance and direction. The company pioneered predictive intelligence with its Mosaic Score—the first system to reliably forecast the outlook for a private company—and has since built it into a comprehensive platform of AI and data capabilities. Today, leading strategy, investment, and business development teams rely on CB Insights to identify the right companies, markets, and opportunities before their competitors do.
CB Insights Leadership Principles
At CB Insights, everyone is expected to be a leader. These leadership principles are like an operating system for our culture. Use the principles as a practical guide to making decisions.
We are what we repeatedly do. By living the principles outlined below, we will build an outstanding company and do insanely great work.
- Solve customer problems. It’s our highest calling. Designing a product? Start from the customer problem it solves. Updating our sales process? Flip it around, and simplify the customer buying process.
- Think BIG! Start small. Great changes start with a first step. Find it. Take it. Build a system around what works. This is the secret to bringing a vision to life.
- Go and see with your own eyes. Meet the customer, use the product, talk to the field. Great systems aren’t built from afar.
- Priorities: Choose one. Leaders give the gift of clarity. They find the most important thing and do it. Max power. Top speed.
- Danger zones:
- Bureaucracy. May the best ideas and execution win.
- Complexity. Leaders use frameworks and systems to simplify.
- No commitment. Leaders don’t compromise just to get along. Debate. Disagree. But once a decision is made, commit.
- Leaving what’s important unsaid or undone. No “circling back.”
- Data informs. Insight transforms. Pull the thread. Ask why. Leaders are curious. They use what they learn to create clarity.
- Insist on excellence. Leaders set high standards and overcome obstacles. They do the kind of work they’re excited to share with the world.
- Live off the land. Leaders creatively use resources already available to them – especially AI – to execute and automate their work.
- Good judgment. Leaders have it. Where it comes from: insight, listening, first-hand experience. How to apply it: carefully on big, hard to reverse decisions. Swiftly on limited, easy to reverse ones.
- Help others. Leaders know we’re building this together.
You’ll want to work here if
- You are excited about how AI is transforming tech
- You are hungry for feedback and the chance to grow
- Your instinct is to work smarter not harder
- You love developing as a SME with a strong POV
- You are motivated by challenges and big ideas
- You believe in radical personal accountability
You don’t want to work here if:
- You are a tech pessimist
- Radical Candor is not your style
- You like to build big processes
- You stay @ the 30,000 foot view instead of digging into the details
- You prefer to operate in your comfort zone
- You expect to be judged by outputs instead of outcomes
What we offer:
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- Holistic compensation: Competitive cash compensation, comprehensive healthcare coverage (PPO, HSA, and FSA options), multiple mental health resources, 401(k) with company match, annual professional development stipend, and generous paid time off.
About Our Pay Practices
We believe in recognizing and rewarding excellence. Our commitment to fairness means that compensation decisions are informed by qualifications, location, internal equity, and current market data. While we aim to hire at our established Hiring Target, starting pay may vary based on factors such as market rates, the qualified pool of candidates, and individual experience.
Equal Opportunity Employer: At CB Insights we know that innovation comes from collaboration, belonging, and diverse perspectives. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - all applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.