Senior Customer Success Manager – Enterprise

Chainguard

Customer Success Manager at Chainguard responsible for onboarding, support, and advocacy for Enterprise customers. Collaborating with various teams to ensure customer success and satisfaction.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud PlatformLinux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As a Customer Success Manager at Chainguard, you will be the post-sales primary point of contact for our Enterprise customers.
You will be responsible for taking lead on customer engagements across onboarding, implementation, and adoption.
In this role, you will work closely with Solutions Architects, Technical Support, Product Management, Engineering and Sales to ensure the successful onboarding and support of your customers.
You are their day-to-day contact, building relationships with customers and driving outcomes, adoption, and delivering time-to-value.
Customer Onboarding: Lead the technical onboarding process for new customers.
Customer Advocacy: Act as the voice of the customer within the organization, advocating for customer needs and requirements to internal teams.
Issue Management: Collaborate with Technical Support and Customer Engineering teams to ensure timely resolution to customer issues.
Product Expertise: Develop hands-on technical knowledge of Chainguard and stay up-to-date with industry trends, new features, and best practices so you can help customers optimize their use of Chainguard.
Training & Education: Collaborate with customers and our Edu team to ensure customers are educated on product features, best practices, and security principles.
Account Management: Develop relationships with multiple levels of customer stakeholders from technicians to CISOs. Work closely with sales teams to identify the best path to renew and expand customers while minimizing churn risks.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years experience in enterprise, customer facing roles collaborating with both technical and business teams - Customer Success, Professional Services, Technical Account Management or a combination of those plus Sales, Solutions Engineering, or Technical Support.
Relevant domain knowledge of one or more of the following: Supply Chain Security, DevSecOps, AppSec, security infrastructure, containers, regulatory compliance requirements, vulnerability management, software development lifecycle.
This is a strategic and proactive role, our expectation is that this person will take full ownership of their customer portfolio and act with a high level of autonomy. This includes making key decisions to drive effective customer outcomes; deciding when to include our executive team or c-suite in customer escalations, how to de-risk or de-escalate customer issues and conflict, and advocating to internal teams including sales, product, engineering, etc.
An entrepreneurial mindset - you will be often build entirely new process or practices to ensure we best serve customers.
Demonstrates a strong commitment to continuous personal and professional development, actively seeking opportunities to enhance skills, expand knowledge, and advance within their career and field.
Driven, high emotional intelligence, and strong priority management skills.
Strongly Preferred:
Previous early-stage startup experience.
Passion for technology & cybersecurity.
Relevant hands-on technical experience, in one or more of the following domains: cloud computing environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), containers, Linux, Supply Chain Security, DevSecOps, AppSec, security, security infrastructure, regulatory compliance requirements, vulnerability management, software development lifecycle.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

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Hard Skills & Tools

customer onboardingcustomer advocacyissue managementproduct expertisetraining and educationaccount managementcloud computingcontainersLinuxvulnerability management

Soft Skills

relationship buildingdriving outcomesautonomydecision makingconflict resolutionentrepreneurial mindsetcommitment to developmentemotional intelligencepriority management