Manager, Customer Success - Commercial

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Manager, Customer Success – Commercial to lead a team of Customer Success Managers covering Commercial accounts, including mid-market and SMB segments. You will develop scalable CS motions to maximize consumption, expansion, and customer value across Claude API, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code products.

You will coach and elevate the team, focus on core CS metrics like expansion, health, retention, and CSAT, and drive strategic engagements with high-impact customers to grow

Responsibilities

• Directly manage and develop a team of ~5 Customer Success Managers across mid-market, PE-backed and SMB accounts (API, Claude Cowork, Claude Code)
• Build scalable success strategies to accelerate consumption, expansion and value realization across the portfolio
• Coach team on CS best practices, including change management, adoption, value realization, and expansion methodologies
• Drive accountability to CS metrics: expansion (consumption growth, cross-sell/upsell), health scores, retention (NRR), and CSAT
• Join strategic customer engagements and escalations to guide major accounts

Skills

People leadership

Customer success

Coaching

Strategic thinking

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

As Manager, Customer Success – Commercial, you'll lead the Customer Success Managers who cover our Commercial accounts: high-growth mid-market technology companies (including cybersecurity and fintech), mid-market organizations in industries such as financial services, healthcare, legal and professional services, private equity‑backed portfolio companies, and a high‑volume SMB book, all building on Claude across API, Claude Code, Cowork and other surfaces. You'll directly coach and develop a team of ~5 CSMs, develop scalable motions to support the broader portfolio, while keeping strategic oversight of the highest‑impact engagements in the segment. This role demands exceptional people leadership combined with deep product knowledge and customer success acumen to guide your team in maximizing customer value, driving consumption, and expanding our footprint across commercial accounts. You'll be instrumental in building scalable CS processes, methodologies, and playbooks that will define how we grow and mature as an organization.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage and develop a team of ~5 Customer Success Managers supporting strategic mid‑market, PE‑backed and SMB accounts across all Anthropic products (API, Claude Cowork, Claude Code)
• Build scalable and agentic success strategies and motions to accelerate consumption, expansion and value realization across the whole commercial portfolio
• Coach team members on customer success best practices, including change management and adoption strategies, value realization, and expansion methodologies across our product suite
• Drive team accountability to core CS metrics: expansion (consumption growth, cross‑sell/upsell opportunity identification), customer health scores, retention (NRR), and customer satisfaction (CSAT)
• Join strategic customer engagements and escalations, demonstrating