Customer Success Manager

Collaboration.Ai•Minneapolis, MN

22d•Hybrid

About The Position

Collaboration.Ai is seeking a proactive, relationship-driven full-time Customer Success Manager to join their globally distributed team. This role is responsible for supporting customers throughout their journey with Collaboration.Ai's product suite, from onboarding to renewal. The Customer Success Manager will guide customers in implementing solutions, maximizing engagement, and achieving measurable outcomes, with a focus on Net Revenue Retention (NRR). The role also involves leveraging AI tools to enhance efficiency in learning, documentation, communication, and customer management. The position requires cross-functional collaboration with colleagues in the US and Germany to align on customer strategy, product feedback, and internal processes.

Requirements

3-5 years proven work experience in the fields of software customer success, account management, or innovation management.
Familiarity with basic web technologies (HTML,and CSS) to help troubleshoot simple platform or integration issues.
Experience using AI tools such as Claude to accelerate learning, improve documentation, strengthen customer communication, troubleshoot issues, and enhance overall efficiency in a SaaS environment.
Experience delivering value through customer experience and relationship management.
Strong project management skills (timelines, coordination, and budget management)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Customer-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving ability.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Comfortable working cross-functionally with a distributed team spanning the US and Germany, including coordination across time zones.
U.S. citizenship required.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with government entities (DoW, Air Force, or other public sector organizations).
Previous experience in a startup or agile environment.
Candidates based in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis or Saint Paul, MN) that will work remotely and from our Saint Paul office as needed.
Willingness to travel occasionally as needed for Company or Customer events.

Responsibilities

Identify and execute upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
Work direction with Key Account Managers and Program Managers to support account growth initiatives.
Deliver onboarding and product training for new customers.
Monitor KPIs and provide proactive recommendations to ensure success.
Lead onboarding and implementation of new innovation platforms for your customers.
Manage project timelines, deliverables, and budgets while coordinating with all stakeholders.
Provide frontline technical support and communicate software issues to the development team.
Collect customer feedback and share actionable insights with the product team to improve usability and features.
Provide strategic advice on optimizing innovation processes using Collaboration.Ai methodologies and tools.
Analyze customer needs and recommend tailored approaches to drive engagement and impact.
Translate customer goals into actionable use cases and measurable success criteria.
Support customers in aligning their innovation strategies with digital transformation objectives.
Identifying improvement potential of internal processes and coordinating the implementation.
Partner with sales, product, and program management teams to deliver a seamless customer experience.
Work in coordination with Program Managers to support major contractual deliverables, milestones, features and functionality of our products for our customers.
Support new team members through knowledge sharing and mentorship.
Work closely with external partners and government stakeholders to ensure alignment and communication.