Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Sr. Customer Success Manager

Riverbed Technology, Inc.$100K — $130K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in Customer Success or related role
  • Proven track record of driving customer outcomes and value realization
  • Strong program management experience with structured planning
  • Ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders
  • Experience in risk detection and mitigation strategies
  • Cross-functional leadership capabilities without formal authority
  • Technical troubleshooting experience, particularly in SaaS environments

Responsibilities

  • Drive measurable customer outcomes through disciplined program management
  • Translate customer outcomes into structured plans with clear milestones
  • Focus on delivering customer business results and verified value
  • Conduct executive reviews and communicate with senior stakeholders
  • Identify risks early and create structured recovery plans
  • Mobilize internal resources effectively to support customer success
  • Confirm stakeholder alignment and engage multi-level decision-makers

Benefits

  • Flexible workplace policies
  • Employee resource groups for community engagement
  • Comprehensive learning and development resources
  • Clear career progression pathways
  • Global wellness programs supporting employee well-being
Full Job Description
Position

Title: Sr. Customer Success Manager ( CSM)

Location: East Coast, TX (Dallas area)

At Riverbed the Senior Customer Success Manager drives measurable customer outcomes through disciplined program management of Success Plan and Get Well Plan execution. The CSM ensures customers realize verified value from the solutions they have purchased by orchestrating cross-functional resources, proactively identifying risks, escalating when necessary, and maintaining accountability to defined outcome objectives. This role serves as the central point of coordination, governance, and momentum to ensure customer success is intentional, measurable, and achieved.

What you will do

Program Management Discipline - Translates outcomes into structured plans with milestones, owners, timelines, and measurable checkpoints

Outcome Orientation - Focuses on customer business results and verified value realization

Executive Presences - Communicates effectively with senior stakeholders and leads executive reviews with credibility

Risk Detection and Mitigation - Identifies early warning signals and builds structured recovery plans

Cross-Functional Leadership - Mobilizes internal resources without formal authority

Stakeholder Mapping and Alignment - Confirms proper decision-makers and multi-level engagement

What makes you an ideal candidate

Escalation Judgement - Escalates appropriately with structured context and solutionsAnalytical and Commercial Acumen - Connects SaaS metrics and value realization to renewal and growth

Accountability and Follow-Through - Drives closure of commitments with execution rigor

Resilience and Composure - Maintains leadership presence during risk and pressure situations

Technical Troubleshooting Acumen - Demonstrated Tier 1 or Tier 2 troubleshooting experience leveraged to protect and advance customer outcomes by identifying technical blockers to adoption, clearly articulating impact and remediation paths, and coordinating cross-functional resolution to maintain momentum toward defined success objectives

What we offer

Our employee benefits including flexible workplace policies, employee resource groups, learning and development resources, career progression pathways, and community engagement initiatives are some of the reasons why we have had great success in bringing in new talent. In addition, our global employee wellness programs are crafted to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of our employees.

Benefits & Perks vary by Country.

Check us out on:
www.riverbed.com
@LifeAtRiverbed

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About Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Riverbed Technology, Inc. is an American information technology company that develops products to improve application performance across wide area networks (WANs), a technique known as WAN optimization. Its products reduce latency and bandwidth constraints in delivering applications via WANs to multiple locations across long distances. Riverbed has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.
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Size
2,700 employees
Industry
Founded
1998

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