Customer Success Manager

1 Month ago • 5-7 Years • Customer Service

Job Summary

Job Description

Actian is seeking a Customer Success Manager (CSM) to act as a strategic partner for their cloud customers, ensuring they maximize value from data and application modernization solutions. The CSM will focus on customers using cutting-edge cloud solutions like data observability, quality, governance, catalog, intelligence, and management to achieve business outcomes. Key responsibilities include driving product adoption, fostering customer relationships, identifying expansion opportunities, ensuring high retention and advocacy, and serving as the voice of the customer internally by collaborating with Sales, Product, Marketing, Engineering, and Support teams. The role involves proactively engaging customers, guiding them to success, and developing them into Actian advocates.
Must have:
  • 5-7 years as CSM for cloud-based solutions in data intelligence or data management.
  • Strong domain expertise in data observability, quality, governance, or intelligence.
  • Proven track record driving adoption and business outcomes in data-centric environments.
  • Familiarity with data management practices and regulatory frameworks.
  • Understanding of modern cloud computing concepts.
  • Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills.
  • Proactive and consultative problem-solving approach.
  • Empathetic, customer-centric mindset.
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented.
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with data observability practices.
  • Experience with industry use cases in financial services, healthcare, retail, telecom, or manufacturing.
  • Experience with customer success tools and CRM systems.
  • Comfortable working with global, geographically distributed customer teams.

Job Details

About Actian
At Actian, we help companies unlock the full potential of their data and modernize their applications. As a global leader in hybrid data management, we deliver AI- and ML-powered solutions that unify data, surface real-time insights, and drive innovation. Our scalable, secure platform enables businesses to integrate, govern, and analyze data across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments—empowering confident, data-driven decisions.

We foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, helping customers succeed in a fast-moving digital world while shaping the future of data management. Join our team of bright, passionate minds and make a meaningful impact on the future of data integration, management, and analytics
About the Role
The Customer Success Manager (CSM) at Actian is a strategic partner to our customers, ensuring they maximize value from their investment in Actian's data and application modernization solutions. In this pivotal role, you will focus on our customers with cutting-edge cloud solutions, including data observability, data quality, data governance, data catalog, data intelligence, and data management, helping them to achieve their desired business outcomes. You will drive product adoption, foster strong customer relationships, identify expansion opportunities, and ultimately ensure high retention and advocacy. As the voice of the customer internally, you will collaborate closely with our growing and collaborative Sales, Product, Marketing, Engineering, and Support teams to deliver a seamless and exceptional customer experience. You will proactively engage customers, guiding them on their path to success and helping them become enthusiastic Actian advocates.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Strategic Partnership & Value Realization: Establish and nurture trusted advisor relationships with a portfolio of Actian's cloud customers, ensuring continued value realization and adoption of our products and services.
  • Customer Engagement & Advocacy: Maintain high levels of customer engagement, including conducting onboarding workshops and business reviews, with a focus on building long-term customer loyalty and developing customer champions.
  • Adoption & Optimization: Coach customers to become product experts, train their teams on best practices for Actian’s cloud solutions and continually identify new use cases to drive adoption aligned with their business needs.
  • Proactive Risk Management: Holistically monitor customer health, product usage, support interactions, and satisfaction. Proactively identify, report, forecast, and mitigate any issues that could affect customer satisfaction, retention and manage account escalations to full resolution.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Act as the primary advocate for each customer internally, escalating issues and sharing feedback with Sales, Product, Marketing, Engineering, and Support teams to improve processes and product offerings.
  • Growth & Expansion: Identify and develop upsell and cross-sell opportunities in partnership with the Account Executive, leveraging your understanding of customer needs and business objectives.
  • Resource Development: Develop Customer Success assets and methods and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create or refine existing adoption materials.
  • Performance Monitoring: Utilize metrics such as product adoption, engagement, and customer health scores to identify risks and opportunities within your customer portfolio proactively.

Required Qualifications:
  • 5–7 years of experience as a CSM for cloud-based solutions in the data intelligence or data management space (or as a data consultant/data governance practitioner in a professional services or enterprise organization).
  • Strong domain expertise in data observability, data quality, data governance, or data intelligence, with the ability to advise customers on best practices and strategies.
  • Proven track record of partnering with enterprise organizations to drive adoption and deliver measurable business outcomes in data-centric environments.
  • Familiarity with data management practices such as metadata management, data lineage, data cataloging, compliance, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
  • Understanding of modern cloud computing concepts such IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and hybrid cloud architectures.
  • Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage confidently with executives, data leaders, and technical teams.
  • Proactive and consultative approach to problem-solving, with a strong bias for action in identifying risks and opportunities.
  • Empathetic, customer-centric mindset with a genuine desire to help customers achieve their business outcomes.
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, capable of managing a portfolio of accounts, prioritizing tasks, and following through on commitments.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Familiarity with data observability practices, including anomaly detection, data health monitoring, and incident management.
  • Experience and knowledge of industry use cases in financial services, healthcare, retail, telecom, or manufacturing.
  • Experience with customer success tools (ChurnZero) and CRM systems (Salesforce).
  • Comfortable working with global, geographically distributed customer teams.

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