Position Overview: The Customer Success Manager II is responsible for driving long-term success and growth across a strategic portfolio of enterprise customers. This role serves as the primary business partner and trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional customer experience, strong net revenue retention, high product adoption, and advocacy.
As the key point of contact for Diligent's solutions, the CSM II leads proactive account management, orchestrates cross-functional resources, and partners closely with Sales and Services to deliver measurable outcomes and expand our footprint within each account.
Key Responsibilities- Own a portfolio of enterprise accounts with accountability for renewal, net revenue retention, and expansion, leveraging data and insights to proactively manage risk and opportunity.
- Drive product adoption and value realization by developing and executing customer success plans aligned to the customer's strategic objectives and key outcomes.
- Deliver a best-in-class customer experience across all phases of the customer lifecycle, from onboarding through renewal, coordinating with Implementation, Professional Services, Support, Product, and other internal teams.
- Lead executive-level engagements, including QBRs/EBRs and strategic reviews with C-suite, board administrators, and senior directors, to demonstrate ROI, influence adoption, and surface new opportunities.
- Identify, qualify, and partner on expansion opportunities in close collaboration with the Expansion Sales team, ensuring smooth handoffs, aligned account strategies, and clear growth plans.
- Facilitate successful onboarding and rollout of Diligent products and modules, working alongside the Implementation team to ensure stakeholder alignment, training, and effective change management.
- Build and maintain strong, multi-threaded relationships with key business and technical stakeholders, becoming a trusted advisor who understands their governance, risk, compliance, and operational priorities.
- Act as the voice of the customer internally, providing structured feedback and insights to Product, Marketing, Services, and Operations to influence roadmap and process improvements.
- Monitor account health and usage leveraging dashboards and analytics, intervening early to address risks, drive adoption, and reinforce value.
- Champion customer advocacy, by identifying referenceable customers, case study opportunities, testimonials, and participation in user groups or events.
- Collaborate on process and playbook improvements within the Customer Success organization to drive consistency, scalability, and excellence in how we serve enterprise customers.
Required Experience & Skills- 5+ years of professional experience, including 2-4+ years in Customer Success, Account Management, or a similar client-facing role within B2B SaaS.
- Proven experience managing mid-market and/or enterprise accounts, with comfort engaging senior and executive stakeholders (Director, VP, C-Suite).
- Demonstrated track record of meeting or exceeding renewal, retention, and expansion targets.
- Strong experience using CRM tools (preferably Salesforce) to manage accounts, opportunities, and customer health activities.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to translate complex concepts into clear, compelling narratives for multiple stakeholder groups.
- Strong consultative and problem-solving skills, with a natural curiosity about the customer's business, use cases, and success metrics.
- High level of resilience, ownership, and accountability, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and manage competing priorities across a large book of business.
- Passion for technology and a solution-centric mindset, with the ability to quickly learn new products and articulate their business value.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with experience managing multiple customers, projects, and deadlines simultaneously.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience in governance, risk, compliance, legal, or adjacent enterprise software environments is a plus.
- Background working in a matrixed, global organization with cross-functional partners across time zones.
- Familiarity with customer success platforms and data-driven approaches to managing account health and adoption.
U.S pay range
$75,040-$93,800 USD
Pay Range
$75,040-$93,800 USD
Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability - to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.
Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney. To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to
work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.
