The Enterprise Customer Success Manager drives value realization and growth for large customers, overseeing the customer lifecycle and collaborating with internal teams.
CaptivateIQ is transforming the way companies plan, manage, and optimize sales performance. We started by revolutionizing incentive compensation management, and now we're expanding our platform to solve broader sales planning challenges. Recognized by industry analysts like Forrester and G2 and backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia, ICONIQ, Accel, and Sapphire Ventures, we empower high-growth companies like Netflix, Figma, and Stripe with the flexibility and insights needed to drive revenue performance.
Join a talented, fast-growing team committed to solving some of the most complex and impactful problems in sales performance management.
About the Role
We’re looking for a strategic and experienced Principal Customer Success Manager to serve as the trusted advisor to our largest and most complex global customers (typically 2,000+ employees and multi-million-dollar compensation programs).
As an Enterprise CSM, you’ll own the full customer lifecycle — from onboarding and adoption through renewal and expansion. You’ll work cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Support, and Professional Services to align on business outcomes and influence product development with real-time feedback. You’ll partner with senior and executive stakeholders, utilizing structured planning to help them achieve long-term success.
Job Location
The candidate selected for this opportunity must reside near one of the following locations:
Hybrid (in-office 3 days per week)
- Austin, TX
Remote
- Raleigh, NC
- Nashville, TN
- Toronto, Canada
Strategic Partnership & Value Responsibilities
- Build and execute multi-quarter success plans that directly link platform use cases and adoption milestones to measurable, quantifiable value for the customer.
- Partner with executive stakeholders (C-suite, Finance, RevOps, HR, Sales) to align CaptivateIQ to their strategic initiatives and compensation strategy.
- Lead business reviews and strategic planning sessions that tell a data-driven value story and influence renewal and expansion decisions.
- Proactively manage and mitigate churn risk, surfacing solutions and driving alignment across internal teams (Product, Engineering, and Services), external stakeholders, and leadership levels.
Enterprise Relationship Management Responsibilities
- Develop multi-threaded relationships across global and cross-functional customer teams - from compensation admins to CROs and CFOs.
- Serve as a trusted advisor who can bridge business and technical discussions, guiding customers through complex workflows and integrations.
Technical and Domain Expertise Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of CaptivateIQ’s platform to advise on best practices and guide customers through complex scenarios.
- Build domain expertise in incentive compensation and sales performance management, developing a point of view to act as a true strategic partner to customers.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to advocate for customer needs through structured voice-of-customer insights.
Commercial Acumen Responsibilities
- Own full accountability for customer retention, expansion, and forecast accuracy within your portfolio, balancing customer advocacy with business objectives.
- Negotiate and influence renewals and upsells that balance customer advocacy with business objectives.
- Collaborate with Account Directors and leadership on renewal and expansion strategy, building business cases that link customer value to commercial impact.
Requirements
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Customer Success or Account Management within a B2B SaaS; at least 3+ years managing large enterprise-level accounts ($100K+ ARR)
- Proven success driving measurable customer outcomes, renewals, and expansions within large, global organizations.
- Strong executive presence and consultative storytelling skills - able to frame technical and financial narratives for C-suite audiences (CFO, CRO, or RevOps) and senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated technical curiosity and comfort engaging on product architecture, integrations, and workflow automation (you don’t need to code, but you lean in to understand).
- Proficiency with account planning, forecasting, and value realization frameworks.
- Bonus: experience in Sales Performance Management, Incentive Compensation, or RevOps technology.
Benefits
- (US-ONLY) 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents
- Flexible vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge
- Enjoy a one-time expense on your 1-year work anniversary (to use for travel, home furnishings, fancy meal)
- Annual stipends for professional development and caretaking
- (US-ONLY) 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future
- Newest Apple products to help you do your best work
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ. ERGs directly support our company-wide DEI goals as a space for developing and retaining diverse talent
Notice for Prospective Candidates
- Only emails from @captivateiq.com should be trusted.
- Attempt to correspond with a candidate using a free web-based account, such as an email address that ends in @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.
- Make an offer of employment without conducting multiple rounds of interviews face-to-face using secure video-conferencing technology.
- Ask candidates to cash checks to buy equipment on behalf of CaptivateIQ.
- Ask candidates to make a payment in order to be considered for a position.
- Make early requests for candidates' personal information such as date of birth, passport details, credit card numbers, bank details and social security number, etc.
- Please note that we’ll only ask for more sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made.
We are aware of active recruitment scams using the CaptivateIQ name, in which individuals pose as our recruiters and post fake remote job openings and make fake job offers on the Internet. Please note, we will never do the following:
CaptivateIQ participates in E-Verify, web-based system that allows enrolled employers to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States
Top Skills
Compensation Software
Planning Tools
Revops
SaaS
Sales Performance Management
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