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Principal Customer Success Manager

RemoteUnited States only
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Principal
Employment
Full-time
$148.4k–$259.7k/yr
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Principal Customer Success Manager for strategic enterprise SaaS customers, 12+ years managing complex accounts. Must own renewals, expansion, executive relationships, risk mitigation, and ROI conversations. Identity/security domain experience is a plus.

What you'll do

  • Own a portfolio of approximately 8-10 strategic enterprise customers
  • Operate within a high-touch engagement model where depth of partnership is prioritized over volume
  • Engage regularly with CIO, CISO, and senior technology leadership
  • Directly influence renewal outcomes, expansion opportunities, and executive satisfaction
  • Support customers operating in complex, highly integrated environments
  • Identify material risk multiple quarters ahead of renewal cycles and drive coordinated mitigation
  • Serve as the accountable leader for the health, trajectory, and commercial posture of each assigned customer.
  • Establish clear success criteria and align internal execution accordingly.
  • Drive customers from deployment to durable operational reliance.
  • Orchestrate the resources required to achieve customer outcomes.
  • Treat each customer as a business, balancing advocacy with commercial responsibility.
  • Build trusted advisor relationships with CIO, CISO, and senior stakeholders.
  • Deliver Executive Business Reviews grounded in measurable business outcomes.
  • Align platform capabilities to strategic initiatives such as security posture, regulatory readiness, and operational resilience.
  • Guide executive decision-making through insight and credible challenge when necessary.
  • Build and govern multi-year Success Plans for every strategic account.
  • Translate product capabilities into quantified business impact.
  • Ensure customers achieve the outcomes that justified their investment.
  • Develop referenceable advocates through demonstrated value.
  • Own renewal posture across the portfolio with no late-stage surprises.
  • Inspect leading indicators including adoption depth, executive engagement, and realized value.
  • Communicate risk early with a clear mitigation strategy and path to resolution.
  • Bring rigor and objectivity to evaluating account health.
  • Proactively identify erosion signals and mobilize cross-functional teams before issues escalate.
  • Develop and execute disciplined recovery strategies when required.
  • Deliver difficult messages when necessary to protect long-term outcomes.
  • Maintain high forecast accuracy for assigned accounts.
  • Operate as the accountable leader for customer outcomes while partnering closely with Account Executives and Solution Engineers across the customer lifecycle.
  • Align commercial strategy with the Account Executive to support retention and expansion.
  • Partner with Solution Engineers on technical strategy, ensuring deployments support defined success criteria.
  • Lead integrated account planning across Sales, Solutions, and Customer Success.
  • Foster a one-team approach focused on long-term customer value rather than functional handoffs.
  • Coordinate Sales, Professional Services, Support, Product, and partner teams
  • Establish governance frameworks that drive accountability and transparency
  • Remove obstacles and maintain execution momentum across large programs
  • Operate effectively within highly matrixed customer organizations

What they require

  • 12+ years managing complex enterprise customers within SaaS or platform organizations
  • Demonstrated ownership of large, multi-threaded accounts with executive visibility
  • Proven experience driving renewals, expansion, and long-term customer value
  • Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to connect adoption to ROI
  • Executive-level communication skills and presence
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments
  • Track record of proactively identifying risk and driving resolution
  • Preferred: Identity/Security Domain Experience supporting identity, security, governance, or other mission-critical enterprise platforms is beneficial but not required.
  • Preferred: Relevant exposure may include Identity Governance & Administration
  • Preferred: Relevant exposure may include Privileged Access Management
  • Preferred: Relevant exposure may include Access certifications / User Access Reviews
  • Preferred: Relevant exposure may include Compliance initiatives (SOX, ISO, NIST, SOC 2)
  • Preferred: Relevant exposure may include Zero Trust programs
  • Preferred: Relevant exposure may include Security transformation efforts

Benefits

  • equity (when applicable)
  • variable/incentive compensation
  • Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure.
  • health plans, including flexible spending accounts
  • a 401(k) Plan with company match
  • ESPP
  • matching donations
  • a flexible time away plan
  • family leave programs

Veza is the pioneer in identity security, purpose-built to answer the fundamental question enterprises face: who can and should take what action on what data. Veza's Access Graph platform maps an organization's entire identity ecosystem across users, groups, roles, policies, permissions, and resources providing deep visibility and control over human, non-human, and agentic identities across SaaS, cloud, on-prem, and custom applications.

🇺🇸 United StatesCybersecurityEnterprise
$148.4k–$259.7k/yr