Manager, Customer Success - Strategic Consumer Tech

Anthropic$265K — $320K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in customer success or customer-facing roles, including 2+ years in management
  • Proven ability to build and manage customer success teams in SaaS, API, or AI/ML contexts
  • Experience with enterprise-scale customer accounts, managing contracts of $1M-$100M+
  • Deep understanding of consumption-based business models and driving customer adoption
  • Technical fluency with AI/ML products to coach teams effectively
  • Strong executive presence for engagement with C-level stakeholders
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking and tactical execution within CS
  • Demonstrated experience in building and managing CS processes and frameworks

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop a team of 5-10 Customer Success Managers for strategic accounts
  • Coach team members on customer success best practices and strategies
  • Ensure accountability to key customer success metrics like consumer growth and retention
  • Engage with C-level executives during strategic customer interactions
  • Create scalable success processes and documentation
  • Collaborate with Sales and AI departments to identify and facilitate account growth
  • Champion customer needs across teams to drive product adoption

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Encouragement to apply even if all qualifications are not met
  • Commitment to diversity and representation within the team
  • Hybrid work model with office attendance expected 25% of the time
  • Focus on responsible AI deployment and ethical considerations in technology
Full Job Description
About the role

As Manager, Customer Success - Strategic Consumer Tech, you'll lead the Customer Success Managers who cover our strategic consumer technology accounts, fast-moving consumer technology companies building on Claude across API, Claude Code, Cowork and other surfaces. You'll directly coach and develop a team of 5-10 CSMs while keeping strategic oversight of the highest-impact engagements in the segment. This role demands exceptional people leadership combined with deep product knowledge and customer success acumen to guide your team in maximizing customer value, driving consumption, and expanding our footprint across enterprise accounts. You'll be instrumental in building scalable CS processes, methodologies, and playbooks that will define how we grow and mature as an organization.
Responsibilities:
  • Directly manage and develop a team of 5-10 Customer Success Managers supporting strategic enterprise accounts across all Anthropic products (API, Claude.ai, Claude Code)
  • Coach team members on customer success best practices, including change management and adoption strategies, value realization, and expansion methodologies across our product suite
  • Drive team accountability to core CS metrics: expansion (consumption growth, cross-sell/upsell opportunity identification), customer health scores, retention (NRR), and customer satisfaction (CSAT)
  • Join strategic customer engagements and escalations, demonstrating executive presence with C-level stakeholders at Fortune 500 companies
  • Build and refine scalable CS processes including success planning frameworks, QBR templates, and expansion playbooks
  • Partner closely with Sales and Applied AI to identify expansion opportunities, facilitate smooth handoffs, and ensure aligned account strategies
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to advocate for customer needs and drive product adoption
  • Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and training initiatives as the Customer Success organization scales
  • Establish and nurture an AI-first, innovation-focused team culture, improving team processes and deepening team hands-on expertise
  • Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning for direct reports
  • Own portfolio-level planning and forecasting, including renewal risk mitigation and expansion pipeline development
  • Serve as escalation point for at-risk accounts and complex customer situations within your team's portfolio
  • Develop customer advocacy programs including case studies, testimonials, and reference architecture development
  • Champion responsible AI deployment practices with customers and represent Anthropic's values in all customer interactions
You may be a good fit if you have:
  • 7+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or customer-facing roles, with 2+ years of front-line management experience
  • Proven track record of managing and building customer success teams in SaaS, API, or AI/ML companies
  • Experience managing customer portfolios at enterprise scale, including accounts with $1M-$100M+ annual contract values
  • Strong understanding of consumption-based business models, with proven ability to drive adoption, expansion, and value realization across different pricing structures
  • Technical fluency to understand AI/ML products, navigate technical conversations, and coach teams on product capabilities across multiple offerings
  • Strong executive presence and ability to represent Anthropic with customer technical and business leaders
  • Strong business acumen with ability to articulate value, calculate ROI, and drive customer business outcomes
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical execution and context-switch between coaching, customer engagement, and operational planning
  • Experience building CS processes, playbooks and operational frameworks, using data to drive team and customer outcomes
  • Demonstrated ability to coach customer success professionals and systematically improve team performance against KPIs
  • Track record of achieving team targets for expansion, retention and customer satisfaction
  • Passion for responsible AI development and helping customers transform their businesses with cutting-edge technology


The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$265,000-$320,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from [redacted].com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links-visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
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