Manager, Customer Success

Job Description Why This Role? Why Now? The world of customer experience isn’t just evolving—it’s being revolutionized. At Zendesk, we don’t watch the future unfold. We build it. As the architects of the AI-powered Resolution Platform, we’re resetting the standard for what customer service—and customer success—can mean on a global stage. We’re seeking a Manager of Customer Success who isn’t daunted by disruption, but energized by it—an architect who can unlock new value at the intersection of human talent, technology, and relentless reinvention. Come help us make Zendesk a Customer Success career destination of choice! Mission Lead a team of up to 10 Customer Success Managers supporting our high and medium touch segments. Your job: Make Zendesk’s customers so successful they want to buy more, stay longer, and advocate fiercely. Build a team that blends financial acumen, technical product knowledge, and data-driven experimentation into a customer outcomes powerhouse. You are known for leading with a growth mindset and consistently reaching across the aisle to collaborate and drive customer experience improvements internally. People would describe you as a people first leader who creates a rich learning culture-empowering your team to deliver outsized impact daily. You have unrelenting operational discipline and create a space where world class CSM performance is accelerated by experimentation and constant reinvention. Overarching Objective for the role: Maximize Team Performance and Customer Outcomes Cultivate Continuous AI Fluency and Enablement within the Team Contribute to broader Japan and APAC GTM Strategy. What Makes You Different See ambiguity as an invitation to create, not retreat. Natural builder with an innate operator’s discipline : you know how to design, run, measure, and continuously improve processes at scale. Fluent in the language of data - dashboards, deep technology conversations and API integrations don’t faze you. If you don’t know, you dig in and then teach your teams! Thrive on getting close to the work: side-by-side with CSMs on customers, troubleshooting complex customer journeys, and strategizing live with internal partners. Obsess over details that drive outcomes: from GRR/NRR metrics, usage & adoption intelligence, analytics, risk flags, to customer value mapping. Transform ambiguity into structure—getting buy-in for change, standardizing processes and technology where needed, and evangelizing best practices. How You’ll Make an Impact 1. Build and Lead a Team of Value Architects Hire, coach, and grow a diverse team, fostering a culture of curiosity, candor, and courageous experimentation. Accelerate your team's product and overall CX technology proficiency, ensuring deep technology and AI fluency to lead customer conversations. Set and communicate crystal-clear goals, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual KPIs, and clear accountability frameworks. Attend in-person customer meetings, assist with deep multi-threading, and use Gong consistently to coach the team, identify trends, and stay ahead of the market. Empower your teams while driving operational consistency and rigorous execution to exceed financial targets and contribute to complex cross-functional initiatives. 2. Engineer Next-Level Customer Outcomes Inspire CSMs to act as “mini-CEOs”—owning portfolio strategies, customer prioritization planning, eliminating blockers and opportunities end-to-end. Lead internal monthly/quarterly business reviews (MBRs/QBRs), ensure success plans are built, adopted, and regularly refreshed based on driving customer outcomes that matter- we meet our customers where they are based on what's most important to their business needs. Actively manage churn and expansion playbooks, pipeline health and renewal forecasting accuracy, and run the business by the numbers. 3. Lead an AI-First Revolution in Success Relentlessly drive adoption and sophistication of AI-powered tools for risk flagg ... (truncated, view full listing at source)