
Senior Customer Success Manager – Team Lead
CancerIQ
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States
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About the role
- Provide day-to-day management for Customer Success team members, including prioritization, workload balancing, and support
- Conduct regular 1:1s focused on performance, development, and career growth
- Mentor and coach junior CSMs on account strategy, executive communication, and customer engagement
- Support onboarding and ramp for new Customer Success hires
- Clearly define roles, responsibilities, and ownership across the Customer Success team
- Establish and reinforce consistent Customer Success best practices, processes, and standards
- Partner with Customer Success leadership to design, refine, and operationalize scalable CS programs
- Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or risks in CS workflows and drive continuous improvement
- Contribute to the evolution of customer journey frameworks, engagement models, and success planning tools
- Support goal setting, performance tracking, and ongoing feedback for CSMs
- Act as a people leader and escalation point for complex customer situations
- Represent the Customer Success team in cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Engineering
- Share frontline insights and team feedback to inform company strategy and roadmap decisions
- Own and manage a small portfolio of CancerIQ’s most strategic customer accounts
- Serve as the primary relationship owner for executive business and clinical stakeholders, including Oncology Service Line Leaders, Directors of Breast Centers, and Directors of Cancer Services
- Develop a deep understanding of each customer’s organizational structure, priorities, and cancer care strategy
- Act as the senior quarterback, coordinating across clinical, operational, technical, and marketing/business development stakeholders
- Build trusted advisor relationships with senior clinical and administrative leaders
- Navigate complex stakeholder environments and align diverse groups toward shared outcomes
- Serve as the escalation point for strategic account risks, challenges, and opportunities
- Lead executive-level Quarterly Business Reviews focused on outcomes, value realization, and long-term alignment
- Develop and maintain multi-quarter success plans aligned to customer strategic goals and CancerIQ’s value proposition
- Guide strategic accounts through onboarding, optimization, and major change initiatives
- Ensure adoption and outcomes meet executive expectations
- Own retention and renewal outcomes for assigned strategic accounts
- Identify and progress expansion, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities in partnership with Sales
- Drive measurable value realization and long-term customer success
- Analyze usage, performance, and outcome data to inform strategic account planning
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Management, Genetics, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in Customer Success or Account Management, preferably in healthcare
- Prior experience mentoring or managing team members strongly preferred
- Strong experience leading executive-level customer conversations and QBRs
- Ability to balance people leadership with strategic account ownership
- Excellent communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills
- Data-driven mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Experience with HubSpot, Zendesk, and Jira preferred
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits (Health, Vision, Dental, HSA/FSA, EAP, 401(k))
- Headquartered in Chicago’s iconic Wrigley Building with Water Taxi access
- Complimentary gym membership with instructor-led classes
- Generous company-paid holidays and monthly CancerIQ mental health days
- Formal training and professional development opportunities
- Annual All Hands weeks
- A collaborative, high-energy culture focused on building things that save lives
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
customer successaccount managementperformance trackingdata analysisstrategic account planningonboardingcustomer engagementrisk managementvalue realizationcoaching
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringstakeholder managementproblem-solvingcollaborationorganizational skillsrelationship buildingstrategic thinkingadaptability