PowerSchool

Senior Customer Success Manager

PowerSchool$69K — $103K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in customer success or related fields.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
  • Willingness to travel up to 30% for key events.
  • Experience mentoring or training colleagues.
  • Strong relationship-building and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Manage customer accounts by tracking health, adoption, and satisfaction.
  • Build relationships with key customer stakeholders and users.
  • Lead regular check-ins and strategic planning sessions.
  • Identify early signs of customer risk and create action plans.
  • Coordinate customer health actions across teams for timely resolutions.
  • Partner with internal teams to resolve customer issues effectively.
  • Use data insights to drive product usage and demonstrate value.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical and dental.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts available.
  • Generous parental leave policy.
  • Unrestricted paid time off policy (Discretionary Time Off).
  • Wellness program access with benefits like ClassPass.
  • Tuition reimbursement for continuing education.
  • Optional benefits including pet insurance and student debt repayment.
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 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.
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications
  • Minimum of 5+ years of relevant and related work experience.
  • Bachelors 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)

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
NASDAQ

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