Customer Success Manager

About the role:

Samsara’s Customer Success team is on the front lines of business value delivery by helping customers adopt our platform, realize measurable business value, and renew and expand with confidence. Our Mid-Market Customer Success Managers pick up where our Implementation team leaves off, working closely with our customers to understand their fleet and unique challenges, advising on how to customize Samsara for their needs, and becoming their long-term partner.

In this role, you will:

• Be on the front lines and ensure our customers increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of their operations with our IoT platform.
• Manage a portfolio of ~100-200 named accounts, using AI tooling to Mid-Market your engagement, prioritize proactively, and drive efficiency and outcomes across your book of business.
• Demonstrate a willingness to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience and to engage the right cross-functional partners to drive resolution.
• Compose joint success plans with customers, outlining their objectives, metrics, and timelines, and effectively removing any barriers to achieving business value.
• Conduct workshops with customers to understand their current operations and recommend workflow changes to maximize the value of their Samsara products.
• Deeply understand the Samsara platform’s capabilities — including its more technical and integration-related features — and explain them to businesses of all types: field services, utilities, long-haul transportation, school buses, and many more.
• Help build the next chapter of Mid-Market CS at Samsara by contributing to the playbooks, workflows, and AI-powered motions that define how the team Mid-Markets.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 2 - 4+ years of experience in a customer success, account management, sales, or strategic consulting role. Enterprise SaaS experience preferred.
• This is a demanding position with high internal visibility that requires strong priority management and high emotional intelligence.
• Experience supporting or working with technical products.
• Solutions-oriented with strong problem-solving skills.
• Proven track record of building trust and communicating effectively with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders: executives, Sales, Product, Support, and Engineering leadership, and day-to-day users of our software.
• Passion for going above and beyond the call of duty, taking initiative, and thriving in a fast-paced, change-heavy environment.
• Diplomacy, tact, and poise under pressure when working through customer issues.
• Bachelor’s degree from a 4-year institution.