Darktrace

Technical Success Manager

Darktrace$100K — $120K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Colorado, US
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in a technical, customer-facing role (e.g., Customer Success Manager, Technical Account Manager).
  • Understanding of enterprise cybersecurity, networking, cloud, SaaS, or infrastructure environments.
  • Proven skills in driving adoption, retention, and customer health improvement.
  • Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for customers and internal teams.
  • Strong engagement skills with technical stakeholders (e.g., security engineers, SOC analysts).
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
  • Desirable experience in security operations and threat detection use cases.

Responsibilities

  • Build trusted relationships with customer security and IT teams.
  • Create technical success plans for platform adoption and risk reduction.
  • Identify high-value use cases for platform integration into security operations.
  • Analyze product usage to identify adoption gaps and retention risks early.
  • Guide customers through deployment to active use to accelerate Time-to-Value.
  • Lead planning to address technical blockers and customer health risks.
  • Provide technical health insights for renewal readiness and account strategy.
  • Surface technical opportunities to support upsell and cross-sell efforts.

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement with travel required twice a year.
  • Opportunity to impact customer success and technology adoption.
  • Engagement with high-level stakeholders including executives and technical teams.
  • Possibility for skill development in cybersecurity and customer success domains.
  • Contribution to a growing business emphasizing integrity and accountability.
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 partnerwith security, IT, and technical stakeholders toturn deployment into meaningful adoption, helpingcustomers embed the platform intodailysecurity operations, reduce risk, and achieve measurable outcomes.

You will workclosely with Account Executives, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Support, and Renewals, bringinga cleartechnicalview of customer health, adoption progress,risks,and renewal readiness.

Please note: this is a remote position with expectations to travel at least 2 times per year.

KeyResponsibilities

  • 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 asCustomer 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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Size
1,200 employees
Industry
Founded
2013

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