Enterprise Customer Success Manager

Accela

Enterprise Customer Success Manager at Accela engaging with government agencies to drive software adoption and customer satisfaction. Responsible for strategic account planning, relationship management, and retention efforts with enterprise clients.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $125,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage a large portfolio of enterprise government agency customers, delivering high-touch engagement and strategic guidance at scale.
Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with senior stakeholders and executive sponsors, including CXO-level contacts on both the IT and business sides of the organization.
Develop 3-5 year strategic agency plans in partnership with customers, aligned to Accela's product roadmap and the agency's long-term goals.
Travel regularly to customer sites to conduct walk-the-halls engagement, strengthen relationships, and deepen organizational awareness.
Own renewal health for the portfolio, proactively identifying and managing at-risk accounts, forecasting renewal outcomes, and driving retention through consistent value attainment.
Partner closely with Sales to identify, develop, and advance upsell and cross-sell opportunities within the enterprise portfolio.
Build and maintain KPI dashboards and deliver compelling data stories that communicate customer progress, outcomes, and Accela's impact to both internal and customer stakeholders.
Benchmark customer outcomes against industry peers and best practices, helping customers understand their performance and identify areas for improvement.
Identify AI use cases specific to each customer's workflows and track AI feature adoption as a key health and engagement signal.
Leverage AI tools and capabilities to scale customer success activities across a large portfolio without sacrificing quality of engagement.
Develop, implement, and track goals using the Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework.
Advocate for customer needs within the organization through formal Voice of the Customer (VoC) processes, ensuring enterprise feedback directly influences product and service development.
Flag competitive displacement risks at accounts and surface competitive intelligence to internal teams.
Identify and develop peer reference opportunities and partner with Marketing to develop case studies that turn healthy accounts into advocates.
Manage escalations end to end, owning the escalation path from intake through resolution.
Mentor and provide informal leadership to CSM teammates, sharing enterprise best practices and success methodologies across the team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or related roles, with at least 2+ years in an enterprise or senior CSM capacity.
Experience in Gov Tech or the public sector is required.
Deep expertise in Gainsight, including health scores, playbooks, reporting, and driving customer outcomes across a large portfolio.
Proven ability to develop and execute enterprise-level customer success strategies, account plans, and multi-year strategic plans.
Strong data analysis and visualization skills, including KPI dashboard development and data storytelling for executive audiences.
Excellent communication, presentation, and executive-level stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging CXO-level contacts.
Demonstrated ability to own renewal health, forecast risk, and drive retention across a large book of business.
Experience partnering with Sales on upsell and cross-sell motions within an enterprise customer portfolio.
Familiarity with AI tools and the ability to identify and track AI use cases and adoption within customer workflows.
Willingness and ability to travel regularly for on-site customer engagement.

Benefits

Comp & perks

flexible time off
comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
family planning benefits
401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
health savings account with company contributions
flexible spending account
life, accident, and disability coverage
business travel insurance
employee assistance programs
other well-being benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

customer successaccount managementdata analysisdata visualizationKPI dashboard developmentstrategic planningGainsightAI use case identificationretention strategiesforecasting

Soft Skills

communicationpresentationstakeholder managementmentoringleadershiprelationship buildingstrategic guidanceproblem-solvingcollaborationadvocacy