Principal Customer Success Manager

Intercom; United States; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, via Fin, is seeking a Principal Customer Success Manager to guide enterprise customers in adopting AI-driven customer service solutions. You will partner with executive sponsors, support leaders, and cross-functional teams to align Fin’s capabilities with business priorities and drive adoption, measurable value, and renewals.

You’ll own the success strategy for a portfolio of strategic customers, navigating complex organizations and multiple stakeholders while shaping AI roadmaps and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise Customer Success, strategic account management or advisory roles.
• Experience with large enterprise clients and multiple stakeholder groups.
• Proven ability to build executive relationships and influence decisions.
• Track record of driving adoption, retention, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience with business process mapping, requirements analysis, or complex implementations.
• Strong commercial judgment connecting product performance to ROI and renewal strategy.
• Interest in AI, automation and agent-building; coding not required.
• Ability to communicate clearly with executives and technical teams.
• Excellent prioritization and program-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own health, success strategy, and retention for a portfolio of strategic enterprise customers.
• Build relationships across executive sponsors and cross-functional teams.
• Lead executive conversations, QBRs/EBRs, and success-plan reviews.
• Tie Fin’s outcomes to customers’ goals: cost savings, adoption, CSAT, renewal.
• Develop customer-specific AI and automation roadmaps with milestones.
• Guide complex implementations, requirements gathering, and workflows.
• Translate customer needs into effective Fin solution designs with internal teams.
• Monitor indicators like resolution rate and CSAT; mitigate risks early.
• Analyze usage data to identify optimization and expansion opportunities.
• Represent Voice of the Customer and influence product strategy.
• Mentor other CSMs and contribute to playbooks and standards.

Skills

Enterprise CS

Executive relationships

Strategic accounts

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

AI/Automation interest

Commercial judgment

Communication skills

Mentorship

Job description

Fin, now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.

Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated the company help desk, giving modern support teams one single system.

Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing, and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI.

Ready to level up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

What’s the opportunity?

As a Principal Customer Success Manager, you’ll partner with some of our largest and most complex enterprise customers to help them transform customer service with AI. You’ll work with executive sponsors, Support leaders, and cross-functional teams to connect Fin’s capabilities to business priorities and guide customers from strategy and implementation through adoption, measurable value, and renewal.

You’ll own the success strategy for a portfolio of strategic enterprise customers, navigating complex organizations, multiple stakeholder groups, and evolving business needs. This is an opportunity to advise senior leaders, influence how global businesses deploy AI, and help shape the playbooks and best practices for our growing Customer Success team.

Responsibilities

• Own the health, success strategy, and retention of a portfolio of strategic enterprise customers, partnering closely with Account Management on renewal plans.

• Build relationships across executive sponsors, operational leaders, technical teams, and frontline users. Develop multi-threaded stakeholder maps and ensure alignment across decision-makers and teams.

• Lead executive conversations, strategic planning, QBRs/EBRs, and success-plan reviews that connect Fin’s roadmap and performance to customers’ business priorities.

• Drive measurable value realization by tying Fin’s outcomes to customer goals such as cost savings, team capacity, customer experience, and service quality. Make progress and ROI clear to executive sponsors.

• Develop and prioritize customer-specific AI and automation roadmaps, aligning business objectives, operational readiness, technical dependencies, and measurable milestones.

• Guide complex enterprise implementations and adoption programs, including requirements gathering, process mapping, and documentation of workflows across teams, systems, or regions.

• Partner with Solutions Engineering, Product, Support, and other internal teams to translate customer requirements into effective Fin solution designs. Advise on configuration, knowledge strategy, integrations, and prompt design.

• Monitor leading indicators such as Fin resolution rate, involvement, CSAT, adoption breadth, and stakeholder engagement. Identify risks early and lead mitigation plans that protect customer outcomes and renewals.

• Analyze usage and performance data to identify optimization opportunities, close resolution gaps, and uncover expansion use cases.

• Maintain deep knowledge of Fin’s evolving capabilities and the AI-agent market, using that expertise to advise customers and position solutions against alternatives.

• Represent the Voice of the Customer internally, translating enterprise customer needs into actionable product feedback and influencing our solutions strategy.

• Mentor other CSMs and contribute to the playbooks, operating practices, and standards of a growing enterprise Customer Success team.

What skills do I need?

• 8+ years of customer-facing experience in enterprise Customer Success, strategic account management, management consulting, strategy, or a related advisory role.

• Demonstrated experience working with large enterprise clients, including complex organizations, senior stakeholders, and multi-team or cross-functional programs.

• A track record of building executive relationships and influencing decisions across a range of customer stakeholders, from C-suite leaders to operational and technical teams.

• Demonstrated success driving adoption, retention, process improvement, and measurable business outcomes for enterprise customers.

• Experience with business process mapping, requirements analysis, solution design, or complex technology implementations.

• Strong commercial judgment and the ability to connect product performance and customer outcomes to ROI, renewal strategy, and expansion opportunities.

• Strong technical acumen and a genuine interest in AI, automation, and agent-building. Coding experience is not required.

• Ability to simplify complex problems and communicate clearly with both executive and technical audiences.

• Excellent prioritization and program-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities across a strategic customer portfolio.

• Self-motivated, adaptable, and curious, with the judgment and ownership to operate effectively in a fast-changing environment.

• A collaborative team player who can influence across functions, advocate for customers, and help elevate the work of the broader team.

The OTE range for candidates within the New York or San Francisco Bay Area is $222,300- $247,000. Actual base pay will depend on a variety of factors such as education, skills, experience, location, etc. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All regular employees may also be eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

The OTE range for candidates within the Greater Chicago Area is $200,070 - $222,300. Actual base pay will depend on a variety of factors such as education, skills, experience, location, etc. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All regular employees may also be eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. At Fin, we want to give people what they need to do the best work of their careers. Our benefits and programs are designed to support your health and wellbeing, your family, your time away from work, and your financial future.

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