Customer Success Manager

HealthJoy

Customer Success Manager at HealthJoy leading designated broker partnerships to drive customer retention and growth. Leveraging data-driven strategies to manage accounts and deliver exceptional customer value.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $100,000 - $110,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

HealthJoy’s Customer Success Team is leading the charge at HealthJoy to deliver industry-leading outcomes to our customers, with the ultimate goal of driving customer retention and growth.
As a Customer Success Manager, you’ll lead a designated book of business aligned to HealthJoy’s most strategic broker partners This is a unique opportunity for a high-energy benefits industry professional who is passionate about delivering customer value, and excited to pivot to a dynamic, fast-paced environment. You will be a key driver of HealthJoy’s revenue goals through proactive account management, strategic expansion, and world-class retention efforts.
Confidently and independently own key outcomes for your book of business, including product adoption, utilization, Net Dollar Retention (NDR), and overall customer health.
Lead the end-to-end renewal and expansion sales process. You will identify, negotiate, and close upsell opportunities by aligning HealthJoy’s marketplace solutions with customer needs.
Demonstrate mastery of the full sales cycle within your book of business. You will partner with Product Solutions Consultants and other senior leaders to conduct deep discovery to uncover pain points, map those challenges to HealthJoy solutions, and move deals forward by confidently asking for the close and defining clear, actionable next steps.
Build strong, consultative relationships across all levels of a customer organization—from day-to-day champions to C-Suite stakeholders. You must be comfortable having direct, high-stakes conversations to drive alignment and value.
Act as the primary external point of contact for escalations. You remain poised under pressure, resolving complex issues with a sense of urgency and a calm, solution-oriented mindset.
Serve as main point of contact for your customers on strategies to optimize adoption across their members, drawing upon your extensive knowledge of HealthJoy’s product and services, benefit industry domain knowledge, and best practices; and partner effectively with HealthJoy’s Product Solution Consultant team to effectively position marketplace solutions and ultimately expand account value;
Leverage AI (Claude, Gemini) and best-in-class software to proactively dive deep into the performance across your book of business, enabling you not only to provide better thought leadership to your book of business, but also socialize the voice of your customers across internal HealthJoy stakeholders.
Maintain a high level of attention to detail regarding customer contracts, health scores, and stakeholder updates, ensuring no risk goes unnoticed.
Travel to meet with customers and their brokers throughout the year to conduct business reviews, deepen relationships, and solidify HealthJoy’s position as a long-term strategic partner.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Benefits experience required. Experience working in benefits technology, health insurance or wellness technology is a great background for this role!
Minimum 4-5 years of customer-facing account leadership or related experience demonstrating a high degree of skill in serving as a trusted advisor.
Strategic and results-oriented approach to partnering with customers at all levels of an organization (individual contributor through C-Suite) to achieve desired outcomes.
Demonstrated success managing customer retention and account growth within a book of business, or related experience negotiating contracts that would demonstrate proficiency managing commercial negotiations with limited oversight.
Commercial Acumen: Proven ability to navigate a sales process, including overcoming objections, managing procurement/legal hurdles, and a "hunter" mindset for identifying expansion opportunities within a "farmer" role.
Highly collaborative and influential with your teammates and business partners across the organization to drive results and innovation.
Exceptional executive presence and ability to present complex or detailed information in a digestible and actionable manner.
Willingness to travel approximately 15-20% to support client book of business, as well as at a minimum quarterly to Chicago headquarters for internal team meetings as needed. We encourage local team members to come into the office on Wednesdays for shared work and collaboration time.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental and vision insurance packages
HSA contribution match
Stock options for eligible roles
401k match
Paid parental leave
Company sponsored Short Term and Long Term Disability coverage
Flexible PTO

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Hard Skills & Tools

customer retentionaccount managementsales cycle masterycontract negotiationcommercial negotiationsstrategic expansionproduct adoptionutilization trackingNet Dollar Retention (NDR)performance analysis

Soft Skills

consultative relationship buildinghigh-stakes conversationproblem-solvingattention to detailcollaborationinfluenceexecutive presencecommunicationadaptabilitycustomer advocacy