PowerSchool

Senior Customer Success Manager

PowerSchool$69K — $103K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in account management, preferably in a customer success role
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrated expertise in managing enterprise customer accounts with complex portfolios
  • Strong understanding of revenue retention and risk management strategies
  • Experience building relationships with executive stakeholders
  • Ability to use data analytics for account strategy and decision making
  • Exceptional communication skills for presenting to customers and internal teams

Responsibilities

  • Manage a customer portfolio worth over $10M and monitor key metrics
  • Build and maintain relationships with customer stakeholders
  • Lead check-ins and strategic planning to align product use with customer goals
  • Identify early warning signs of customer risks and create action plans
  • Collaborate with internal teams to resolve customer issues and improve satisfaction
  • Use data insights to advocate for customer needs and recommend best practices
  • Document customer interactions and outcomes meticulously for internal alignment

Benefits

  • Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, and vision
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Short- and long-term disability benefits
  • 401(k) plan with comprehensive options
  • Generous parental leave policy
  • Discretionary time off for improved work-life balance
  • Wellness programs including fitness memberships and support services
  • Tuition reimbursement for ongoing education
  • Optional benefits such as pet insurance and identity theft protection
Full Job Description
Overview

Team Overview Our Success team ensures our partners in educational technology achieve their desired outcomes, serving as champions of our customers' needs. Through collaboration, strong relationships, and advocacy, the Success team positively impacts customer retention through proactive engagement and delivering excellence to our customers.

Responsibilities Description

The Customer Success team focuses on ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes with our products through satisfaction, retention, and growth.

Your day-to-day job will consist of:

  • Manage a portfolio of customer accounts greater than $10M by monitoring customer health, product adoption, engagement levels, renewal status, and overall satisfaction.
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with key customer stakeholders, including executive sponsors, administrators, and day-to-day product users.
  • Lead regular customer check-ins, business reviews, and strategic planning conversations to align product usage with customer goals and success outcomes.
  • Identify customer risks early, including low adoption, unresolved support issues, stakeholder changes, budget concerns, or competitive threats, and define action plans to move the customer back to good health.
  • Coordinate customer health action plans across internal teams and customer stakeholders, ensuring clear ownership, timely follow-through, and measurable progress toward resolution.
  • Partner with Sales, Support, Product, and Professional Services teams to resolve customer issues, remove barriers, and deliver a consistent customer experience.
  • Use data, reporting, and customer insights to recommend best practices, increase product usage, and demonstrate value to the customer.
  • Support renewal and expansion efforts by documenting customer outcomes, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring customers understand the value they are receiving.
  • Serve as the voice of the customer internally by sharing feedback, product needs, risks, and trends with appropriate teams and leadership.
  • Maintain accurate account documentation, including success plans, meeting notes, action items, renewal risks, stakeholder updates, and next steps.
  • Mentor or support other Customer Success team members by sharing best practices, helping with complex customer situations, and contributing to process improvements.
Preferred Qualifications
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Qualifications Minimum Qualifications
  • Minimum of 5+ years of relevant and related work experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
  • Travel occasionally, up to 25-30%, for key moments such as team summits, training, customer meetings, company events, etc., with increased frequency during peak periods based on business demands.
  • Additional experience may be substitute for an advanced Degree.
  • (Add up to 4 more, keep them objective and qualifiable/quantifiable if possible)
  Enterprise Customer Success Experience5+ years of experience managing strategic or enterprise customer accounts, preferably with a large book of business, complex customer portfolios, and high-value renewals.  Revenue Retention and Risk Management ExpertiseProven ability to manage renewal risk, develop get-to-green action plans, protect ARR/NRR, and drive measurable improvements in customer health, adoption, and retention.  Executive Stakeholder ManagementExperience building trusted relationships with senior leaders, executive sponsors, and decision-makers, including leading business reviews, escalation conversations, and strategic planning discussions.  Data-Driven Account StrategyAbility to analyze customer health, usage trends, adoption data, support history, and renewal indicators to prioritize action and make informed recommendations.  Cross-Functional LeadershipDemonstrated ability to coordinate internal teams such as Sales, Support, Product, Professional Services, and Implementation to resolve customer issues and execute action plans on time.  Strong Business AcumenUnderstanding of customer value realization, contract impact, financial risk, expansion opportunity, and how customer outcomes connect to revenue protection and growth.  Communication and Executive PresenceStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present risks, recommendations, and business outcomes clearly to both customers and internal leadership.
  • (These are NICE to haves. Add up to 5, keep them objective and qualifiable/quantifiable if possible)
Compensation & Benefits Compensation & Benefits

PowerSchool offers the following benefits:

  • Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
  • Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
  • Comprehensive 401(k) plan
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
  • Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage

A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $69,700 - $103,200 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.

About PowerSchool

PowerSchool is an education technology company that provides a range of K-12 education solutions to schools around the world. The company's products include student information systems, learning management systems, assessment and analytics tools, and special education management systems. PowerSchool serves more than 45 million students and 12,000 schools in over 70 countries. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Minnesota, USA.
Learn more about PowerSchool
Size
2,500 employees
Market Cap
$4.4 billion
Industry
Founded
1997
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