Customer Success Manager - Chicago

Clutch Canada; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Stock options

Health Savings Account

Flexible time-off

Parental leave

Disability benefits

Job summary

Cato Networks is seeking a Customer Success Manager to be a trusted advisor to our top customers from deployment through renewal. You will inspire and support customer adoption and expansion, using your customer-facing and technical acumen to lead our customers to success.

Curiosity, creativity, and empathy guide your approach as you collaborate with Sales, CS, R&D and Support to ensure customers realize the full value of our technology.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a Customer Success or sales role at a high-growth SaaS software or technology vendor.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the health of the assigned accounts and ensure our customers stay and grow with us, realizing the full value of the investment in our technology.
• Develop meaningful relationships with key stakeholders within the customer as well as Cato’s teams (Sales, Customer Success, R&D and Support Engineering).
• Own and orchestrate Cato's post-sales motion, including conducting QBRs, product adoption maturity assessments, managing renewals and upsells.

Skills

Customer Success

Sales experience

SaaS

Job description

Welcome to the future of cloud networking and security!

Cato Networks is the first company to converge enterprise networking and security into one centralized and global service that is delivered by cloud. It is led by networking and security pioneer Shlomo Kramer (Check Point, Imperva) and early investor (Palo Alto Networks, Exabeem, Trusteer and more). Cato’s unique technology inspired a brand-new product category, later named “SASE” by Gartner and a market expected to reach $28.5 billion by 2028.

This is your opportunity to get on the rocket ship and join a company that is building a cutting-edge enterprise network and secure cloud platform, and is on a fast track to becoming the worldwide market leader – don’t miss it!

As a Cato Customer Success Manager, you will be a trusted advisor to our top customers from deployment and throughout their journey to renewal. In this role you will inspire and support customer adoption and expansion and use your customer facing and technical acumen to lead our customers to success.

Curiosity - you have a desire to truly understand our customers' business needs.
Creativity - you can find a sustainable path to yes.
Empathy - you connect at a human level with our customers and you genuinely care

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the health of the assigned accounts and ensure our customers continue to stay and grow with us and realize the full value of their investment in our technology
• Develop meaningful relationships with key stakeholders within the customer as well as Cato’s teams (Sales, Customer Success, R&D and Support Engineering)
• Own and orchestrate Cato's post sales motion, including conducting QBRs, product adoption maturity assessments, managing renewals and upsells

Requirements:

• 5+ year of experience ideally in a Customer Success or sales role at a high growth SaaS software or technology vendor
• Experience and Exposure working with networking or security software solutions
• Excellent customer communication and presentation skills (ability to clearly articulate to different audiences and bring the message across in a concise, professional and compelling manner)
• Ability to effectively listen and truly understand the customer needs, even if they're not effectively articulated, and find sustainable solutions
• Ability to influence and persuade at all levels and gain a ‘Trusted Advisor’ status with key stakeholders
• Must be very well organized and able to work effectively in a nimble and fast-paced environment
• Effective problem solver, shows ownership and wants to see issues resolved
• Comfortable working within a geographically distributed team for a hyper-growth global organization
• Must be located in the Northeast United States
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

Prior Experience:

• Solid technology background, ideally hands‑on prior experience on at least a few of the following domains:
• Routing (static, BGP, EIGRP, etc.)
• Switching
• SD-WAN
• Firewalls, Proxy
• Secure Web Gateway/CASB/DLP
• Identity Management (SSO, SAML, LDAP, etc.)
• Threat protection mechanisms (IPS, AM, etc.)
• Load Balancing
• Networking protocol analysis (TCP, UDP, IP, ICMP, etc.)
• WAN, MPLS

A reasonable estimate of the total compensation for this role, at the time of posting, is $160,000 - $200,000. Cato operates from a high place of trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skill set, experience, location, training, and certifications. If your requirements fall outside of this range, you are still welcome to apply.

Cato provides a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits plan. Benefits for this role include health/vision/dental insurance, 401(k), stock options, Health Savings/Flexible Spending Accounts, flexible time‑off, paid parental leave and disability benefits.

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.

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