Manager, Customer Success - Strategic Consumer Tech

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

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in customer success, account management, or similar fields, with 2+ years in management roles
  • History of building customer success teams in SaaS, API, or AI/ML environments
  • Experience managing enterprise-scale accounts, with annual contracts ranging from $1M to $100M+
  • Deep understanding of consumption-based business models and driving value realization
  • Technical fluency in AI/ML products and ability to engage in technical discussions
  • Strong executive presence for interacting with C-level stakeholders
  • Sound business acumen, able to articulate value and drive customer outcomes
  • Proven track record in enhancing customer success processes using data-driven strategies

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop a team of 5-10 Customer Success Managers for strategic accounts
  • Coach team on customer success best practices and expansion methodologies
  • Ensure accountability to key customer success metrics like retention and customer satisfaction
  • Engage in strategic customer interactions, showcasing presence to C-level stakeholders
  • Develop scalable customer success processes including success planning and playbooks
  • Collaborate with Sales and Applied AI for identifying and managing expansion opportunities
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration for advocating customer needs across teams

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance and wellness programs
  • Opportunities for personal and professional development
  • Flexible work environment with hybrid scheduling
  • Support for community involvement and volunteering
  • Initiatives encouraging diversity and inclusion
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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