Darktrace

Technical Success Manager

Darktrace$100K — $120K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in a technical customer-facing role e.g., CSM or Technical Consultant.
  • Understanding of enterprise cybersecurity, networking, cloud, SaaS, or infrastructure.
  • Experience in driving adoption, retention, and technical value realization.
  • Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
  • Confident interaction with security teams, system admins, and technical leaders.
  • Strong skills in communication, presentation, and stakeholder management.
  • Experience with SOC workflows and incident response is a plus.
  • Familiarity with customer success platforms and analytics is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Build trusted relationships with customer security and IT teams.
  • Create success plans for customer platform adoption and risk reduction.
  • Identify key use cases for integrating the platform into daily operations.
  • Monitor product engagement to detect adoption gaps and risks.
  • Guide customers from deployment to active platform use.
  • Lead planning to mitigate technical blockers and health risks.
  • Provide insights on technical health for renewals and growth discussions.
  • Advocate for technical users' needs and feedback internally.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a high-impact customer-facing role.
  • Engagement with diverse teams including Account Executives and Solutions Engineering.
  • Chance to influence product adoption and strategy directly.
  • Involvement in driving measurable outcomes for cybersecurity technology.
  • Support from a company focused on integrity and accountability standards.
Full Job Description
Job Description:

The Technical Success Manager (TSM) is a high-impact customer-facing role for someone who enjoys combining technical depth, customer advocacy, and commercial awareness to help customers get lasting value from cybersecurity technology.

In this role, you will partner with security, IT, and technical stakeholders to turn deployment into meaningful adoption, helping customers embed the platform into daily security operations, reduce risk, and achieve measurable outcomes.

You will work closely with Account Executives, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Support, and Renewals, bringing a clear technical view of customer health, adoption progress, risks, and renewal readiness.

Key Responsibilities
  • Build trusted relationships with customer security and IT teams, understanding their priorities, workflows, and success outcomes.
  • Create practical technical success plans that help customers adopt the platform, reduce risk, and realise measurable value.
  • Identify high-value use cases that make the platform part of everyday security operations.
  • Use product usage, engagement, and health indicators to spot adoption gaps, underutilisation, and retention risks early.
  • Guide customers through the transition from deployment to active use, accelerating Time-to-Value and reducing handover friction.
  • Lead mitigation planning for technical blockers, integration challenges, operational gaps, and customer health risks.
  • Bring clear technical health insights into renewal readiness, QBRs, growth discussions, and account strategy.
  • Surface technical opportunities that support expansion, upsell, and cross-sell activity in partnership with the Account Executive.
  • Champion the voice of technical users by ensuring product feedback, risks, and success requirements are visible internally.


Qualifications
  • You have 3+ years' experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as Customer Success Manager, Technical Success Manager, Technical Account Manager, Technical Consultant, Product Specialist, or similar.
  • You understand enterprise cybersecurity, networking, cloud, SaaS, or infrastructure environments.
  • You know how to drive adoption, retention, technical value realisation, and customer health improvement.
  • You can translate complex technical concepts into clear, practical guidance for customers and internal teams.
  • You are confident engaging with security engineers, SOC analysts, system administrators, technical leaders, and executives.
  • You bring strong communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Experience with security operations, SOC workflows, threat detection, or incident response use cases is desirable.
  • Familiarity with customer success platforms, health scoring, adoption analytics, and renewal governance is advantageous.


Compensation: We are able to offer 100k-120k on the base + commission 80/20 split. Final offer will be determined based on years of experience and location.

As a growing business strengthening its governance and controls, this role plays a part in supporting high standards of integrity and accountability.

About Darktrace

Darktrace is a cybersecurity company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect and respond to cyber threats in real-time. The company was founded in 2013 by a group of mathematicians and former intelligence experts from MI5 and GCHQ. Darktrace's flagship product, the Enterprise Immune System, is a self-learning AI that can detect and respond to cyber threats across a range of industries, including finance, healthcare, and energy. The company has received numerous awards for its innovative approach to cybersecurity, and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe.
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1,200 employees
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Founded
2013

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