Customer Success Program Manager Jobs in Lawrence, IN

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Our customers who drive the most value out of Salesforce rely on the Signature Success program and team. Signature Success aligns on each customer's needs, strategic objectives, and maturity. Customers are then supported through long-term plans that align the right people, skills, coaching, and oversight to help customers achieve tangible results through Salesforce products. Insights and analysis are provided along the way to drive comprehensive support. The primary orchestrators driving Signature delivery are our versatile Customer Success Managers (CSM).
The CSM Director leads the strategy for Signature Success Plan delivery across their team of CSMs. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Customer Success strategies, trends, and outcomes at the enterprise level. CSM Directors are able to research, synthesize, and develop insights and actions from market intelligence & customer feedback. They will also hire, coach, manage, and support a team of individuals with a variety of backgrounds. The primary responsibility of the CSM Director is to accomplish Signature delivery across a given book of business, through their CSM team.
This role requires customer centricity, partnership, resourcefulness, flexibility, and a highly driven demeanor. Success in this role is measured by customer and employee sentiment, retention of business, customer adoption and growth of customers through their business objectives.
The following is a list of characteristics that make a great leader at Salesforce. We expect our next Director, Customer Success Manager to exhibit each of these characteristics:

• Get it Done - Drives processes that scale. Challenges the organization to think with a beginner's mind and act efficiently to achieve the desired outcome. Calm, organized, positive, and can-do attitude. Results-driven, tenacious, drive to succeed in a fast-paced environment.

• Courageous Communicator - Superb interpersonal skills including a demonstrated ability to communicate, present, and influence credibly and effectively at all levels in an organization including executive and C-level. Tailors message and style to the audience, uses storytelling to deliver effective presentations and messages.

• Motivate and Champion - Invests in and tries new things in the talent and career development of our people. Holds self and team accountable to expectations.

• Salesforce Smart - Explains the vision and "the why" behind changes. Keeps teams focused and moving forward, even in an absence of concrete information, by rallying them around a vision.

• Win as a Team - Puts the collective benefit of the company first. Brings teams together to take-on shared goals. Seeks and embraces different points of view and experiences to unlock the collective potential of people across Salesforce."

Requirements & Skills

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Clear, concise communication of customer success strategy, business value, and escalation guidance.

• Strong presentation skills. Confidently represent the team and strategy in executive forums and customer engagements.

• Proven ability to manage schedules, customer portfolios, and capacity planning. You should be comfortable using data to advocate for resources, process improvements, or customer-facing changes.

• Skilled at engaging and aligning with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Sales, Services, and Success.

• An understanding of enterprise customer lifecycle management, Salesforce cloud platforms, and scalable success delivery models.

• Experience leading and growing high-performing CSM teams with a focus on coaching, upskilling, and succession planning.

• Strong collaboration and negotiation skills to drive outcomes in a matrixed environment.

• Familiarity with Salesforce products, capabilities, and customer success methodology.

• Familiarity with customer success best practices, health scoring frameworks, and adoption metrics.

• Ability to represent customer outcomes and product value to diverse audiences (field, partners, customers, executives).

• Knowledge of how to translate complex customer challenges into actionable success plans and enablement content.

Industry and Product-Specific Requirements:

Consumer Business Services (CBS) - Supports companies in professional services, hospitality, travel, transportation, and business services sectors, helping them optimize customer engagement and operational efficiency across complex service delivery models.

Digital (Commerce Cloud & Marketing Cloud):

• Deep familiarity with Commerce Cloud and Marketing Cloud capabilities, including storefront management, personalization, journey building, and campaign automation.

• Understanding of digital commerce and marketing operations, including B2B and B2C customer journeys.

• Experience guiding customers through Commerce and Marketing Cloud adoption, integration, and value realization.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Solution Consulting, or related fields.

• 3-5 years of people management or leadership experience, including managing high-performing Customer Success teams.

• Proven experience managing customer portfolios and resource planning across complex, multi-segment customer bases.

• Demonstrated success in driving cross-functional alignment with Product, Sales, Services, and Engineering teams.

• Experience leading high-priority customer initiatives or programs with executive visibility and business-critical outcomes.

• Strong knowledge of Salesforce products and platform - features, capabilities, best practices, and how customers derive value from them, including knowledge of the Salesforce ecosystem.

• Strong analytical and operational abilities, especially around team performance, customer health metrics, prioritization, and efficiency.

• For Core Clouds: Demonstrated experience working with or supporting Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud at an enterprise level, with a strong understanding of CRM-driven sales and service motions.

• For Digital: Demonstrated experience working with or supporting Commerce Cloud and/or Marketing Cloud at an enterprise level, with a strong understanding of digital commerce and marketing automation strategies.

Note: this role is office-flexible, and the expectation is to be in-office a minimum of three (3) days per week.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $171,200 - $273,000 annually There is a different range applicable to specific work locations. In California and New York, and select cities in the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington DC, the base pay range for this role in those locations is $205,800 - $298,400 per year. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.