Description:
As a Senior Customer Success Manager (CSM) at Absorb, you will own a portfolio of Enterprise and Strategic accounts, representing a significant book of business with direct impact on customer health, Gross Revenue Retention (GRR), and long-term growth.
This role requires a proactive, outcome-oriented approach. You are expected to anticipate risk, identify opportunity, and drive account strategy aligned to customer objectives and commercial outcomes. You will operate as a strategic advisor with strong commercial and technical acumen, leading discovery, shaping success strategies, and ensuring measurable value realization through Absorb LMS.
This is a highly customer-facing role with an expectation of consistent engagement across senior stakeholders, including regular participation in strategic customer conversations and forums. You will partner closely with Strategic and Enterprise Account Managers, who own the commercial relationship, to co-develop account plans, inform renewal strategy, manage risk, and support expansion.
What You’ll Do
- Manage a high-value portfolio of Enterprise and Strategic accounts with accountability for customer health, retention performance, and growth contribution.
- Develop and execute structured account plans aligned to customer priorities, business outcomes, and lifecycle stage.
- Leverage AI tools to enhance customer insight, streamline account management workflows, and improve the quality and efficiency of discovery, analysis, and strategic recommendations
- Lead discovery to understand customer strategy, operating model, and learning objectives, translating these into clear success plans.
- Act as a trusted advisor on Learning & Development strategy, guiding customers on how to design, scale, and optimize learning programs using Absorb LMS.
- Drive value realization by linking platform usage and learning initiatives to measurable business outcomes and ROI.
- Establish and maintain a clear value narrative within each account, reinforcing Absorb’s impact and relevance over time.
- Proactively monitor account health, identify risks early, and escalate to leadership where appropriate, with clear mitigation plans.
- Partner with Account Managers on renewals, risk management, and expansion planning, contributing insight that informs commercial decisions.
- Identify and develop Client Success Qualified Leads (CSQLs) through a structured understanding of customer needs and opportunities.
- Co-develop Executive Business Reviews, contributing data-driven insights, forward-looking strategy, and clear recommendations.
- Challenge existing approaches where required, guiding customers toward more effective use of the platform and stronger alignment to business goals.
- Represent the voice of the customer internally, influencing Product, Services, and Support based on structured feedback and observed patterns.
- Build and maintain strong customer advocacy, including references, CSQAs, and executive-level relationships.
- Coordinate cross-functional resources to deliver against customer objectives, ensuring alignment and accountability across internal teams.
What You’ll Bring
- 5–8 years of experience in B2B SaaS Customer Success, Account Management, or a related field, with exposure to Enterprise or Strategic accounts.
- Experience managing a large, complex book of business with clear accountability for retention and customer outcomes.
- Proficiency in using AI tools to drive productivity, deepen customer understanding, and elevate the quality of customer engagement and strategic output.
- Strong commercial acumen, with a clear understanding of how value realization drives renewals and expansion.
- Demonstrated ability to lead discovery, facilitate consultative engagements, and develop outcome-based success strategies.
- Experience building and executing account plans in partnership with Sales or Account Management.
- Working knowledge of Learning & Development, enablement, or training program design.
- Experience within LMS, HR Tech, or EdTech environments is preferred.
- Ability to translate technical capabilities into business-relevant outcomes for a range of stakeholders.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging at senior and executive levels.
- Ability to operate effectively in complex, ambiguous environments and drive clarity where required.