Customer Succes Manager, Senior Manager-Mulesoft

Salesforce•Indianapolis, IN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Customer Success Manager, Senior Manager is a highly strategic and experienced individual contributor responsible for driving quantifiable business impact across our most complex, often multi-org Signature customers. This role acts as a primary strategic partner who maintains a continual focus on the customer’s business goals to improve their adoption, technical health, and expertise to realize the maximum value out of their Salesforce investment. Ensuring the seamless delivery of all deliverables necessary to advance the customer’s core business goals. The Senior Manager is required to integrate multiple products or processes to create effective customer solutions. We are looking for candidates who have experience supporting customers in one or more of the following industries: Financial Services (FINS) – Partners with banks, insurance companies, wealth management firms, and fintech organizations to drive digital banking transformation, enhance customer experiences, ensure regulatory compliance, and maximize ROI on Salesforce investments. This is an Individual Contributor position.

Requirements

Experienced business professional, preferably with 5-6 years of relevant industry expertise in Customer Success, SaaS platform use, or related strategic consulting fields.
Exceptional communication and presentation skills with a demonstrated ability to influence effectively at all levels, including executive and C-level.
Ability to handle objections, navigate complicated discussions, and drive alignment.
Must demonstrate persistence in the face of adversity and disappointment.
Ability to clarify the roles and responsibilities of collaborators and serve as the central resource, ensuring clear technical and business alignment.
5-6 years experience supporting customers using MuleSoft.
Experience with deep MuleSoft Anypoint Platform expertise
Strong understanding of how MuleSoft solves business problems: API-led connectivity: Three-layer architecture enabling reusability and agility Integration patterns: Real-time sync, batch processing, event-driven architectures API Management: Governance, security policies, rate limiting Deployment options: CloudHub vs Runtime Fabric - when to use each
Knowledge of MuleSoft + Salesforce integration (Salesforce Connector, Composer, Data Cloud)
Understanding of when to engage technical resources for complex integrations
Understanding of integration patterns with enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, Workday, ServiceNow)
Familiarity with MuleSoft RPA capabilities
Multiple MuleSoft certifications (Developer + Integration Architect Associate)

Responsibilities

Determine when and how to engage clients based on calculated ROI, ensuring all activities translate directly into tangible value for the customer.
Effectively own the Signature experience across complex, multi-org customers. This involves organizing information across multiple work streams and integrating customer priorities and timelines into comprehensive success plans.
Act as the central resource for the team and the customer, connecting all the dots. This includes proactively taking ownership of customer needs and drawing expert resources into customer situations as needed.
Craft a clear engagement charter with specified goals and metrics to ensure alignment across internal and external teams.
Align the Account Success team and internal stakeholders around the customer’s business and technical goals, ensuring value delivery through the Signature offer.
Design multi-step digital workflows where agents handle repetitive data-intensive work, freeing the CSM for high-stakes relationship building.
Determining which customer segments or tasks require high-touch human coverage vs. “always-on” AI support.
Cultivate and maintain relationships with customer IT and business executive leadership, demonstrating a genuine commitment to customer goals to build deep rapport.
Navigate the customer’s and Salesforce’s internal organizational dynamics to achieve results. Drive consensus with collaborators and influence key internal and external stakeholders to engage in the process.
Combine expert Salesforce knowledge with deep business insight to deliver effective recommendations and advance the customer’s core business goals. This includes adapting established solutions to solve complex customer problems.
Effectively amplify the voice of the customer with internal teams to ensure the organization remains laser-focused on customer success.
Develop a strong working knowledge of Salesforce’s major solutions and a “sales pitch” understanding of the rest. Leverage industry insight to position customers for future success.
Demonstrate a growth mindset by pursuing challenging learning activities. Mentor team members to help accelerate their personal development and contribute subject matter expertise internally within Salesforce.
Act as the leader in identifying problems. Leverage the Red Accounts Escalation Play and Case Oversight & Incident Management processes when high-value renewals or Go-Live dates are at risk.
Guide customers through governance frameworks, best practices for Trust Layer, and implementation of safety-by-design principles.
Can use AI tools for account-level pattern recognition and access automated RCA reports for specific scenarios.
Question assumptions to uncover root causes and reveal new opportunities rather than just treating symptoms.