
Customer Success Manager – Technology PMO
American Express Global Business Travel
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Illinois • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $88,200 - $163,800 per year
About the role
- Leading and driving strategic initiatives, as defined by the customer.
- Provide Support for Program Level Initiatives meeting business and partner KPIs and operational performance, delivering monthly dashboards and executive insights to drive accountability and improvement
- Translate customer/partner feedback into actionable product, engineering, and process improvements including GBT Product Roadmap enablement including NDC
- Proactively identify errors, customer friction, and performance gaps, leading root-cause analysis to reduce failure rates and improve success metrics
- Act as a dedicated technical and operational partner contact, ensuring smooth onboarding, integration, and long-term partner success
- Partner with Commercial to support revenue growth, renewals, upsell opportunities, and pre-sales technical enablement
- Drive incident prevention and resolution, improving response times, minimizing impact, and strengthening trust
- Analyze performance trends to optimize conversion, reduce operational cost, and improve customer experience
- Support strategic partner business reviews, presenting data-driven recommendations and measurable impact
- Build scalable support processes, documentation, and operational playbooks to improve efficiency and consistency
- Collaborate cross-functionally to prioritize initiatives that increase revenue, retention, and platform reliability
Requirements
- Experience in technical and project delivery, partner success, customer success, solutions engineering, or platform operations
- Strong ability to analyze KPIs, build dashboards, and extract actionable insights (Excel, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, etc.)
- Comfort working in hybrid technical and commercial roles — part customer, part sales, part engineering
- Ability to diagnose system and integration issues (APIs, workflows, data pipelines)
- Proven experience driving outcome-based improvements, not just managing tasks
- Strong stakeholder communication, executive presence, and escalation management
- Experience in payments, fintech, SaaS, marketplaces, or travel management platforms is highly desirable
- Ability to operate in fast-moving, partner-driven environments with ownership and accountability in a complex cross-functional, global business environment
- Ability to work in a fast-paced matrix environment including managing across multiple geographies, functions & time zones
- Business English mandatory - multi-lingual capability advantageous
- Experience implementing complex technical platforms
- High degree of problem solving and decision-making and ability to adapt to changing priorities
- Previous experiences in software implementation would be an asset
- Experience collaborating across multiple functional groups and with operational SME’s
Benefits
- Health and welfare insurance plans
- Retirement programs
- Parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Wellbeing resources
- Travel perks including deals on flights, hotels, cruises, and car rentals
- Access to over 20,000 courses on learning platform
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLExcelPower BITableauLookerAPIsworkflowsdata pipelinessoftware implementationtechnical delivery
Soft Skills
stakeholder communicationexecutive presenceescalation managementproblem solvingdecision-makingadaptabilityownershipaccountabilitycollaborationcustomer success