Senior Customer Success Manager

BetterUp

Managing client success and relationship building for BetterUp's SaaS platform. Drive customer value and account health while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeNew York City • California, New York, Texas, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $135,000 - $175,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build rapport and expand customer/executive sponsorship, creating new champions while fostering relationships with existing ones.
Manage relationships with program sponsors and day-to-day partners while teaming with Account Management to increase breadth and depth.
Become a true advocate of your customer’s best interest both internally at BetterUp and with the customer’s leadership.
Create thoughtful, value-based business recommendations that help customers maximize value; make internal recommendations on customizations while balancing ROI, scale, and time to market.
Understand customer strategy and challenges; align BetterUp’s Human Transformation Platform with their internal narrative and desired outcomes to maximize insights and value.
Demonstrating how BetterUp can solve business problems and align solutions and internal resources to support each customer’s needs.
Be a true champion of account health - proactively monitor early warning signals and take timely action before issues escalate.
Design and maintain a personal operating rhythm for tracking adoption, value realization, stakeholder alignment, and health across your portfolio.
Drive problem-solving and risk mitigation strategies, engaging cross-functional partners to get results. Quarterback customer-centric projects or customizations as required.
Escalate to leadership appropriately; ensure best-in-class program engagement across all programs, teeing Account Managers up for expansions ahead of the renewal period.
Manage multiple concurrent workstreams and stakeholder groups with the discipline and structure of a program manager.
Develop and maintain clear documentation of timelines, milestones, risks, and decisions—creating a consistent operating rhythm for your accounts.
Coordinate cross-functional delivery teams to ensure commitments are scoped, sequenced, and executed on time.
Contribute to the evolution of our product functionality, product marketing, and internal and customer best practices.
Communicate clearly and credibly with executive and operating-level stakeholders, including program sponsors at the VP and C-suite level.
Manage triage and cascade of communications across customer and internal stakeholder groups when issues arise.
Provide regular and real-time updates on program status, risks, and outcomes in a structured, audience-appropriate way.
Ability to travel for up to 20% of the time.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of software and/or service delivery experience (execution and/or leadership)
7+ years of experience leading enterprise-wide SaaS platform deployments (overseeing both operational and technical delivery)
Excellent communication skills with executive and operating level stakeholders (inclusive of business and technical personas)
Influencing / working cross functionally (independently navigate well through an org)
Strong program/project management skills (scrum/agile a plus)
Ability to look around corner / uncover early indicators of risk to drive proactive remediation
Extensive experience advising, coaching, influencing, and building relationships both internally and externally with executive-level clients at Fortune 1000 companies (bonus points if you’ve worked with or for Disney!)
Minimum 20% travel required (client onsite travel)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Access to BetterUp coaching; one for you and one for a friend or family member
A competitive compensation plan with opportunity for advancement
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible paid time off
All federal/statutory holidays observed
4 BetterUp Inner Workdays (https://www.betterup.co/inner-work)
5 Volunteer Days to give back
Learning and Development stipend
Company wide Summer & Winter breaks
Year-round charitable contribution of your choice on behalf of BetterUp
401(k) self contribution

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Hard Skills & Tools

SaaS platform deploymentsprogram managementproject managementrisk mitigationbusiness recommendationsvalue realizationstakeholder alignmentdocumentationcross-functional deliverycustomer-centric projects

Soft Skills

communication skillsrelationship buildinginfluencingproblem-solvingproactive remediationteam collaborationexecutive engagementorganizational navigationchampioning account healthadaptability