BetterUp

Enterprise Customer Success Manager, US

BetterUp$107K — $147K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in customer success or account management roles
  • Expertise in strategic consulting and client relationship management
  • Strong project management skills and ability to handle multiple priorities
  • Excellent storytelling and communication skills
  • Experience in SaaS, HCM, or talent management industries is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Build and nurture customer relationships and executive sponsorships
  • Champion customer needs and align BetterUp solutions accordingly
  • Monitor account health and proactively address early warning signs
  • Develop and deliver value-based business recommendations
  • Engage cross-functional teams to drive problem-solving and project success
  • Be a customer advocate within BetterUp, aligning organizational strategies with client needs
  • Contribute to product evolution and best practices

Benefits

  • Access to BetterUp coaching for employees and a friend or family member
  • Flexible paid time off including all federal holidays and additional 'Inner Workdays'
  • Five volunteer days annually to support community involvement
  • Learning and Development stipend to foster professional growth
  • Company-wide breaks during summer and winter for work-life balance
  • Year-round charitable contributions on behalf of employees
Full Job Description
Let's face it, a company whose mission is human transformation better have some fresh thinking about the employer/employee relationship.

We do. We can't cram it all in here, but you'll start noticing it from the first interview.

Even our candidate experience is different. And when you get an offer from us (and accept it), you get way more than a paycheck. You get a personal BetterUp Coach, a development plan, a trained and coached manager, the most amazing team you've ever met (yes, each with their own personal BetterUp Coach), and most importantly, work that matters.

This makes for a remarkably focused and fulfilling work experience. Frankly, it's not for everyone. But for people with fire in their belly, it's a game-changing, career-defining, soul-lifting move.

Join us and we promise you the most intense and fulfilling years of your career, doing life-changing work in a fun, inventive, soulful culture.

If that sounds exciting-and the job description below feels like a fit-we really should start talking.

We are a hybrid company with a focus on in-person collaboration when necessary. Employees are expected to be available to work from one of our office hubs at least two days per week. Our US hub locations include: Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; and the Washington, DC metro area. If this is a role based in Europe, our Europe hub locations are London, UK and Amsterdam, NL. Please ensure you can realistically commit to this structure before applying.

The Enterprise Customer Success Manager role contributes to the mission of BetterUp by ensuring that our customers and members receive the full value out of the BetterUp platform and experience. The role supports our distribution strategy by driving customer value, increasing the measurable and perceived value that customers receive from the BetterUp platform. Our Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are our clients' key strategists, consultants, and growth planners. CSMs partner with the Account Management and Implementation teams to drive adoption and deliver on value, which creates strong business cases for renewals and expansions. Core skills to be successful in this role include, but are not limited to; leadership skills, client service orientation, strategic consulting, project management, relationship mastery, problem-solving, and storytelling.

What you'll do:
  • Relationship Building: Build rapport and expand customer/executive sponsorship, creating new champions while also fostering relationships with existing champions.
  • Prospection & Coordination: In this role, the CSM is a champion of deeply understanding how BetterUp can solve business problems for our customers and aligns our solutions and internal resources to support each customer's needs.
  • Account Health: Be a true champion of account health, taking action on early warning signals; escalates to leadership appropriately. Ensures best-in-class program engagement across all programs regardless of size, teeing Account Managers up for expansions ahead of the renewal period.
  • Value Delivery: Create thoughtful, value-based business recommendations that help customers maximize value; make internal recommendations on customizations or ways to serve globally while balancing ROI, scale, and time to market.
  • Drive problem-solving and risk mitigation strategies, engaging cross-functional partners to get results. Quarterback customer-centric projects or customizations as required.
  • Manage relationships with program sponsors and day-to-day partners while teaming with your Global Account Partners to increase the breadth and depth of relationships. Become a true advocate of your customer's best interest internally at BetterUp as well as with the customer's of BetterUp.
  • Understand customer strategy and challenges; align BetterUp's Human Transformation Platform with their internal narrative and desired outcomes to maximize insights and value.
  • Contribute to the evolution of our product & product functionality, product marketing, and internal and customer best practices
  • Ability to travel for up to 20% of the time.

If you have some or all of the following, please apply:
  • Experience with high-value books of business, multi-product platform deployments, the HCM SaaS space, or Talent disciplines are also highly valued.
  • Previous experience building deep relationships with customers, stakeholders, and client teams, including at the Executive level. Must have previously served as the main point of contact for customers.
  • Strong experience keeping customers' expectations grounded in reality, and pushing back while maintaining a positive relationship. Must be able to be prescriptive, consultative, and credible.
  • Project management experience and/or experience managing multiple projects with multiple stakeholders at once.
  • Must have demonstrated ability to build industry or company-specific knowledge and business acumen and engage with senior leadership of large organizations.
  • Previous experience balancing multiple priorities, including long term strategy with immediate customer needs, as well as aligning commercial outcomes with broader account needs
  • Strong experience inspiring customers to do something different. Should have experience consulting or managing customers in a solution that required behavior change of end-users.


AI at BetterUp

Our team thrives at the intersection of human expertise and AI capability. As an AI-forward company, adaptation and continuous learning are part of our daily work. We're looking for teammates who are excited to evolve alongside technology - people who experiment boldly, share their discoveries openly, and help define best practices for AI-augmented work. These professionals thoughtfully integrate AI into their work to deliver exceptional results while maintaining the human judgment and creativity that drives real innovation. During our interview process, you'll have opportunities to showcase how you harness AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact.

Benefits:

At BetterUp, we are committed to living out our mission every day and that starts with providing benefits that allow our employees to care for themselves, support their families, and give back to their community.
  • Access to BetterUp coaching; one for you and one for a friend or family member
  • A competitive compensation plan with opportunity for advancement
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Per year:
    • All federal/statutory holidays observed
    • 4 BetterUp Inner Workdays (https://www.betterup.co/inner-work)
    • 5 Volunteer Days to give back
    • Learning and Development stipend
    • Company wide Summer & Winter breaks
  • Year-round charitable contribution of your choice on behalf of BetterUp

We are dedicated to building diverse teams that fuel an authentic workplace and sense of belonging for each and every employee. We know applying for a job can be intimidating, please don't hesitate to reach out - we encourage everyone interested in joining us to apply.

BetterUp Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, BetterUp Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

At BetterUp, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, residence location, as well as market indicators. The range below is representative of base salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future.

The base salary range for this role is as follows:

$124,000 - $170,500: New York City and San Francisco

$107,000 - $147,400: All other locations

Protecting your privacy and treating your personal information with care is very important to us, and central to the entire BetterUp family. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Notice. If you have any questions about the privacy of your personal information or your rights with regards to your personal information, please reach out to [email protected]

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About BetterUp

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, KCVO, ADC is a member of the British royal family. As the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, he is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne. Born in St Mary's Hospital, London, Harry was educated at Wetherby School, Ludgrove School, and Eton College. He spent parts of his gap year in Australia and Lesotho, then underwent officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned as a cornet into the Blues and Royals, serving temporarily with his brother William and completed training as a troop leader. In 2007–2008, he served for over ten weeks in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He returned to Afghanistan for a 20-week deployment in 2012–2013 with the Army Air Corps. In June 2015, he resigned from the army. Harry launched the Invictus Games in 2014 and remains the patron of its foundation. He also gives patronage to several other organisations, including the HALO Trust and Walking With The Wounded. To encourage people to open up about their mental health issues, Harry, alongside the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, initiated the mental health awareness campaign "Heads Together" in April 2016. In 2018, Harry was made Duke of Sussex prior to his wedding to American actress Meghan Markle. In January 2020, the couple stepped down as senior members of the royal family and moved to the Duchess's native Southern California. In October 2020, they launched Archewell Inc., an American public organisation that focuses on non-profit activities and creative media ventures. They have two children, Archie and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor.
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