
Customer Success Manager – Aerospace & Defense
RWS Group
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $70,000 - $90,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Execute routine customer engagements (tactical check‑ins, case reviews, usage monitoring) and summarize risks/opportunities
- Maintain account health dashboards, success plans, and action logs; ensure data hygiene in CRM system
- Coordinate follow-ups for open issues with Support, Services, and Product; manage small, low-risk escalations
- Assist Senior CSMs during onboarding and upgrades: schedule sessions, track tasks and risks, and draft customer comms
- Support S1000D/CSDB workflows by documenting procedures and pulling status evidence (e.g., content baselines, modules, BREX impacts) under guidance
- Capture business outcomes and wins (time saved, issue trends reduced, authoring throughput) and feed into quarterly summaries
- Contribute baseline content for Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and success storytelling, present sections as readiness builds
- Serve as the “voice of the customer” in weekly triage meetings, document feature requests, usability feedback, and priority bugs
- Partner with Renewals on early risk flags (adoption gaps, roadmap ambiguity, stakeholder turnover) and track mitigation steps
- Use playbooks to identify expansion signals (users/licenses, modules, training, XPP add-ons), route qualified signals to Sales
- Build simple ROI snippets (before/after workflow metrics) with templates; participate in enablement cycles
- Build foundational knowledge of S1000D, ATA iSpec2200, IPS, and MIL-SPEC concepts; track a personal learning plan
- Monitor A&D forums and summarize 2–3 actionable insights per quarter for the team
Requirements
- 3-5 years in a customer-facing role (Customer Success, Support, Services, or PMO) within enterprise software or complex B2B environments
- Working familiarity with S1000D concepts and CSDB workflows (training acceptable in lieu of deep experience)
- Basic cloud literacy (Azure/AWS)
- Proficiency with Salesforce (or similar CRM), ServiceNow, and Atlassian (Jira/Confluence)
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to translate technical topics into crisp, customer-ready summaries
- Detail orientation with disciplined follow-through on tasks, notes, and customer commitments
- Prior involvement in onboarding, enablement, or customer training
- Exceptional presentation and communication skills, including the ability to convey complex technical concepts in simple terms
- Proven ability to demonstrate and assist in troubleshooting complex systems
- Proven track record of meeting and exceeding personal goals and objectives
- Experience and/or exposure to A&D programs, primes, or government stakeholders
- Experience with XPP or structured content/DITA/S1000D authoring ecosystems
- US Citizenship required
- Travel required (10% – 20%)
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
S1000DCSDB workflowscloud literacySalesforceServiceNowAtlassianXPPstructured contentDITAtroubleshooting
Soft Skills
written communicationverbal communicationdetail orientationpresentation skillscustomer engagementtask follow-throughcustomer trainingstakeholder managementrisk managementproblem-solving