Client Success Manager

Edlink

$85K — $120K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in client success or account management roles, preferably in tech or SaaS.
  • Experience in a startup or fast-paced environment.
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, for diverse audiences.
  • Ability to understand technical concepts and troubleshoot client issues.
  • Exceptional relationship-building skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to identify client needs and risks proactively.
  • Strong organizational skills with a focus on follow-through.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with various client stakeholders.
  • Understand and align Edlink's product to clients' business goals and risks.
  • Lead strategic client interactions, including account reviews and planning.
  • Identify opportunities for client workflow improvements and product adoption.
  • Monitor account health and usage patterns for early risk detection.
  • Advocate for clients internally by providing relevant context to teams.
  • Simplify complex technical topics for client understanding.
  • Collaborate with Sales and Account Management on client outcomes.

Benefits

  • Generous PTO policy allowing for work-life balance.
  • Weekly team lunches to foster a strong company culture.
  • Flexible working hours to accommodate personal schedules.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • Paid parental leave to support family needs.
  • Downtown parking provisions for convenience.
  • Opportunity for performance-based bonuses, enhancing potential earnings.
Full Job Description
Client Success Manager (CSM) | On-Site in Austin

What You'll Be Up To:
  • Build strong, trusted, multi-threaded relationships with clients across technical, operational, and executive stakeholders
  • Understand each client's business goals, technical constraints, internal priorities, and risks - and connect Edlink's product value back to those outcomes
  • Lead strategic client touchpoints, including business reviews, account planning conversations, adoption check-ins, and executive updates
  • Help clients get more value from Edlink by identifying workflow improvements, adoption opportunities and best practices
  • Proactively monitor account health, usage patterns, stakeholder changes, support trends, and other risk signals before they become client escalations
  • Act as the client's internal advocate by bringing clear, well-documented context to Product, Engineering, Support, Sales, and leadership
  • Translate complex product or technical topics into clear recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Partner closely with Sales and Account Management when commercial topics arise, while keeping your own focus on client outcomes, product value, adoption, and relationship health
  • Continuously look for ways to improve the client experience, strengthen internal processes, and make Edlink easier to work with
Who You Are:
  • You've worked in a startup, startup-like environment, or another setting where ownership, ambiguity, and follow-through mattered a lot
  • You're comfortable speaking with technical stakeholders and can understand enough of the product to troubleshoot, explain tradeoffs, ask good questions, and guide clients toward the right next step
  • You're an excellent communicator - polished in writing, strong in meetings, thoughtful with executives, and able to make complex topics feel simple
  • You know how to build trust with different kinds of people - from day-to-day users to technical stakeholders to senior leaders. You're comfortable learning what each person cares about, adapting your communication style, and becoming someone they trust to follow through.
  • You're proactive about surfacing risk. You notice when usage changes, a champion leaves, priorities shift, communication slows down, or a client's goals no longer line up with how they're using the product
  • You have strong judgment around when to solve something yourself, when to escalate, and how to bring internal teams the full context they need to act quickly
  • You care about business outcomes, not just task completion. You want to understand what success means for the client and how Edlink can help them get there
  • You're organized enough that clients and teammates trust you to follow through without being chased
  • You can spot when a client may be losing confidence, asking for work outside the intended scope, or showing signs that their needs are changing
Who This Role is Perfect For:
  • Miss being around someone other than your plants, pets and family every day? We're an in-office team only hiring in-office roles.
  • Tired of selling something you don't believe in? Edlink is solving the hardest data problems in edtech and by doing so we make teachers and student's lives easier.
  • Have a "non-traditional" background? Maybe you didn't go to college. Maybe you haven't worked in awhile. Maybe your most recent work experience doesn't translate well to a resume. We don't care. If you've got the skills and we believe you're on a good trajectory and just need a chance to run, you'll have a darn good shot at the role.
  • Passionate about working with technical products? This role needs someone who's excited to dig into our API and data solutions to help clients succeed.
What You'll Get:

Working at an early-stage startup is like getting an MBA. You'll get lots of attention, have lots of responsibility and also lots of autonomy.
  • $85K - $120K Depending on Experience + Performance Based Bonus
    • OTE $93K - $132K
    • Variable salary as 10% of overall OTE (90/10 split)
  • Downtown parking
  • Generous PTO
  • Weekly team lunches
  • No bureaucracy
  • Flexible working hours
  • Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance Options
  • Paid Parental Leave

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