Customer Success Manager - Core Clouds

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Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

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The Experience
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, identifying and addressing both technical and business concerns and aligning them strategically with customer priorities, projects, and problems.
We are looking for candidates who have experience supporting customers in one or more of the following industries:

• Financial Services (FINS) – Works with banking, insurance, wealth management, and other financial services organizations to support digital transformation, regulatory compliance, and improved customer and member outcomes through the Salesforce platform. Direct experience with Financial Services Cloud is preferred. Location: NY Metro preferred
• Health & Life Sciences (HLS) – Collaborates with healthcare providers, payers, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies to support digital health initiatives, regulatory compliance, and improved patient/member outcomes through the Salesforce platform (Direct experience with Health Cloud and/or Life Sciences Cloud strongly preferred).
• Technology Media Telecommunication (TMT) – Works with technology companies, telecommunications providers, media organizations, and high-tech firms to accelerate innovation, improve customer success outcomes, and drive platform adoption at scale (Direct experience with Media Cloud strongly preferred).

What You'll Actually Be Doing
Customer Accountability and Value Alignment

• Serve as the single point of customer accountability for all Signature deliverables, the overall customer experience, and renewal and expansion, overseeing the experience throughout the Signature lifecycle.
• Align with and manage Business and Technical Stakeholders, focusing on aligning Business Value and Technical Goals to the Signature offer.
• Conduct enablement sessions on opportunity and case management, forecasting, pipeline hygiene, knowledge creation, and omni-channel routing, and share best practices for sales and service process optimization, data quality, and customer experience.

Strategic Advisory and Stakeholder Management

• Drive adoption of Sales and Service Cloud features with reps, agents, managers, supervisors, and ops teams, tracking usage metrics (opportunity updates, activity logging, forecast submissions, report usage, case resolution times, knowledge article usage, channel adoption, and CSAT scores) and conducting quarterly reviews of feature usage.
• Develop strong relationships at key stakeholder levels, including executive-level relationships within customer IT and business leadership, acting as a trusted advisor by understanding the customer’s business model and applying proven solutions to their problems.

Technical Health, Adoption, and Risk Management

• Use AI agents to automate routine tasks such as meeting summaries, QBR data collection, and initial health monitoring, and use AI-driven sentiment and intent analysis to flag early customer concerns for human intervention.
• 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), and escalate complex automation, data model, routing, or integration questions to technical resources.

You're Our Person If...

• Experienced business professional, preferably with 3+ years of relevant industry expertise in Customer Success, Salesforce, SaaS platform use, or related fields.
• Strong consulting skills and demonstrated ability to drive business value, facilitate discussions, handle objections, and influence C-level conversations, with excellent communication skills to translate technical concepts into business terms.
• 3-4 years experience supporting customers using Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, with working knowledge of core features:Sales Cloud: Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, Forecasting, Reports & DashboardsService Cloud: Cases, Knowledge, Queues, Service Console, Omni-Channel routing
• Understanding of Sales (lead-to-cash, opportunity management, pipeline management) and Service (case management, escalation, SLA management) processes, and familiarity with Sales Cloud automation (workflows, process builder, flows) and Service Cloud automation (email-to-case, web-to-case, case assignment rules, macros).

Even Better If...

• Sales Cloud Consultant and Service Cloud Consultant certifications, plus additional Salesforce product certifications (AI Associate, Administrator, Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, Data 360 Specialist, Agentblazer).
• Experience with Einstein for Sales (lead scoring, opportunity insights, activity capture) and Service (case classification, article recommendations, next base actions).
• Understanding of how Sales Cloud integrates with marketing automation and service tools and how Service Cloud integrates with telephony, chat, messaging, and self-service portals.

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

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. For British Columbia-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 115,200 to CAD 158,400. For Ontario-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 115,200 to CAD 158,400 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable. This posting is to fill a vacancy on our team, unless otherwise noted.