Job Title: Principal Customer Success Manager
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois; NYC, Remote; San Francisco, California
About the Role
Fin, now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce.
As a Principal Customer Success Manager, you’ll partner with some of our largest and most complex enterprise customers to help them transform customer service with AI. You’ll work with executive sponsors, Support leaders, and cross-functional teams to connect Fin’s capabilities to business priorities and guide customers from strategy and implementation through adoption, measurable value, and renewal.
Responsibilities
- Own the health, success strategy, and retention of a portfolio of strategic enterprise customers, partnering closely with Account Management on renewal plans.
- Build relationships across executive sponsors, operational leaders, technical teams, and frontline users. Develop multi-threaded stakeholder maps and ensure alignment across decision-makers and teams.
- Lead executive conversations, strategic planning, QBRs/EBRs, and success-plan reviews that connect Fin’s roadmap and performance to customers’ business priorities.
- Drive measurable value realization by tying Fin’s outcomes to customer goals such as cost savings, team capacity, customer experience, and service quality. Make progress and ROI clear to executive sponsors.
- Develop and prioritize customer-specific AI and automation roadmaps, aligning business objectives, operational readiness, technical dependencies, and measurable milestones.
- Guide complex enterprise implementations and adoption programs, including requirements gathering, process mapping, and documentation of workflows across teams, systems, or regions.
- Partner with Solutions Engineering, Product, Support, and other internal teams to translate customer requirements into effective Fin solution designs. Advise on configuration, knowledge strategy, integrations, and prompt design.
- Monitor leading indicators such as Fin resolution rate, involvement, CSAT, adoption breadth, and stakeholder engagement. Identify risks early and lead mitigation plans that protect customer outcomes and renewals.
- Analyze usage and performance data to identify optimization opportunities, close resolution gaps, and uncover expansion use cases.
- Maintain deep knowledge of Fin’s evolving capabilities and the AI-agent market, using that expertise to advise customers and position solutions against alternatives.
- Represent the Voice of the Customer internally, translating enterprise customer needs into actionable product feedback and influencing our solutions strategy.
- Mentor other CSMs and contribute to the playbooks, operating practices, and standards of a growing enterprise Customer Success team.
What skills do I need?
- 8+ years of customer-facing experience in enterprise Customer Success, strategic account management, management consulting, strategy, or a related advisory role.
- Demonstrated experience working with large enterprise clients, including complex organizations, senior stakeholders, and multi-team or cross-functional programs.
- A track record of building executive relationships and influencing decisions across a range of customer stakeholders, from C-suite leaders to operational and technical teams.
- Demonstrated success driving adoption, retention, process improvement, and measurable business outcomes for enterprise customers.
- Experience with business process mapping, requirements analysis, solution design, or complex technology implementations.
- Strong commercial judgment and the ability to connect product performance and customer outcomes to ROI, renewal strategy, and expansion opportunities.
- Strong technical acumen and a genuine interest in AI, automation, and agent-building. Coding experience is not required.
- Ability to simplify complex problems and communicate clearly with both executive and technical audiences.
- Excellent prioritization and program-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities across a strategic customer portfolio.
- Self-motivated, adaptable, and curious, with the judgment and ownership to operate effectively in a fast-changing environment.
- A collaborative team player who can influence across functions, advocate for customers, and help elevate the work of the broader team.
Compensation
All regular employees may be eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- New York or San Francisco Bay Area: OTE range of $222,300 - $247,000.
- Greater Chicago Area: OTE range of $200,070 - $222,300.
Actual base pay will depend on a variety of factors such as education, skills, experience, location, etc. The base pay range is subject to change.
Policies & Culture
- Hybrid Policy: Fin has a hybrid working policy. We expect employees to be in the office at least three days per week.
- Culture: We have a radically open and accepting culture. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment.
- Equal Opportunity: Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal.
How to Apply
Learn more about working at Fin and our benefits at fin.ai/careers.