Senior Customer Success Manager, Life Sciences

DocMatter Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Series A equity

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

401(k) retirement plan

PTO and company holidays

Wellness stipend

Job summary

DocMatter Inc. is seeking a commercially minded Senior Customer Success Leader to own account strategy for top-tier life sciences customers.

You will drive retention, expansion, and measurable value by aligning DocMatter capabilities with client objectives. In this small, fast-paced team, you will map stakeholders, craft engagement plans, and collaborate with Product, Sales, Medical Affairs, and Commercial teams to deliver client outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Customer Success roles within healthcare markets.
• Deep understanding of life sciences workflows.
• Own strategic enterprise accounts and map stakeholders.
• Fluent in enterprise SaaS customer lifecycle.
• Proven delivery, renewal, and expansion results.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong executive presence with C-suite engagement.
• Experience building CS playbooks and account plans.
• Thrives in small, fast-paced teams with ownership.
• Comfort with clinical topics and physician dialogue.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholder relationships across Medical Affairs and Commercial.
• Develop and execute strategic account plans.
• Drive usage, satisfaction, and measurable value.
• Identify expansion opportunities and collaborate with Sales.
• Collaborate with Product, Clinical Engagement, Sales and Medical Affairs.
• Identify and mitigate risks to retention.
• Within 3 months: map stakeholders and engagement plans.
• Understand paradigm shifts in healthcare and client priorities.
• Define practical paths for expansion opportunities.

Skills

Account ownership

Life sciences

SaaS lifecycle

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Playbooks & rhythms

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

High-growth teams

Clinical subject matter

Job description

DocMatter is an ambitious, growth-stage company that is changing the face of collaboration for the medical community and is hiring exceptional individuals that want to contribute to that mission. We are fast becoming a household name among clinicians worldwide who consistently rely on the DocMatter platform to connect with their peers, learn from experts, gain insights, and stay up to date with the latest clinical data, best practices, and therapeutic innovations in medicine. Our goal is to bring our innovative platform to every clinician in the world.

We are looking for a commercially minded, healthcare-experienced operator and strategist who can build account plans from scratch, identify upsell opportunities, and lead senior customer stakeholders with confidence. Success in this role requires ownership, intensity, and the ability to turn DocMatter’s value proposition into measurable customer impact and account growth.As a senior member of our Customer Success Team, you will own account strategy, be accountable for retention and expansion outcomes, and directly influence revenue growth across strategic life sciences customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with importantstakeholdersacross Medical Affairs and Commercial functions at top-tier life science companies.

• Strategic Account Planning: Develop and execute tailored success plans that align customer business objectives with DocMatter capabilities.

• Value Realization:Drive usage, satisfaction, and measurable value creation through onboarding, enablement, strategic alignment, and ongoing engagement strategies.

• Upsell & Growth Strategy:Identify expansion opportunities within accounts, manage your own upsell efforts and partner with Sales for cross-sell motions and help develop long-term growth roadmaps.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Clinical Engagement, Sales and Medical Affairs teams to ensure customer needs are met and exceeded.

• Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify and manage risks to account retention and client satisfaction.

Within the first 3 months, you will have:

• Mapped every key stakeholder across your accounts and built custom engagement plans that keep them active, informed, and aligned to the specific challenges DocMatter is helping them solve.

• Become deeply familiar with the paradigm shift your clients are working to drive in healthcare, including the strategic, clinical, organizational, and commercial forces shaping their priorities.

• Identified the next expansion opportunities within each account, clarified what must happen to make those opportunities successful, and built a practical path to move them forward.

What this role is not

• A reactive customer support role
• A high account volume role. You will be responsible for a small number of clients, each with six-figure ARR and ambitious growth targets, and will be expected to go deep with each account
• Aligned to a rigid playbook. You will be expected to exercise creativity in relationship building, account strategy, and execution
• A people management role. You will come in as an individual contributor with account-based milestones, but will need to exercise strong internal collaboration to achieve your goals.

Requirements

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Customer Success, Account Management, or Strategic Partnerships within pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, digital health, or healthcare SaaS markets.

• Deep understanding of life sciences workflows and operating models across Medical Affairs, Commercial, Clinical Operations, or related functions.

• Proven ability to own strategic enterprise accounts, map complex stakeholder ecosystems, and influence senior customer leaders.

• Fluent in the enterprise SaaS customer lifecycle, including implementation, onboarding, adoption, value realization, renewal, and expansion.

• Track record of hitting or exceeding delivery, renewal, expansion, upsell, or account-growth goals in a customer success organization.

• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives, driving change, and turning ambiguity into measurable customer outcomes.

• Strong executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to engage C-suite executives and senior stakeholders credibly.

• Experience building or shaping customer success playbooks, account plans, team processes, or scalable operating rhythms — not just executing them.

• Successful in small, fast-paced teams where initiative, collaboration, intensity, and ownership are non-negotiable.

• Level of comfort with clinical subject matters and an understanding of physician to physician dialouge.

Nice-to-Haves

• Worked in management consulting, strategy consulting, business operations, or life sciences transformation and produced client-ready analyses, recommendations, or implementation plans.

• Built or improved customer-facing processes, playbooks, operating rhythms, or scalable CS motions in a high-growth company where structure was still forming.

• Navigated regulatory, compliance, privacy, or data governance considerations in healthcare or life sciences environments.

• Contributed to pricing, packaging, account expansion, or go-to-market strategy for a healthcare, life sciences, or SaaS product.

• Led strategic working sessions with senior Medical Affairs or Commercial stakeholders.

Benefits

DocMatter provides a peer-to-peer collaboration platform that facilitates knowledge transfer across a global network of highly engaged healthcare professionals to drive life-changing patient outcomes. We are well on our way, but new hires are early enough that you will still be able to play a pivotal role in advancing our mission.

Our employees are passionate about elevating the practice of medicine. Come join some of the smartest minds tackling one of the great opportunities to advance the global medical field!

Benefits

• Series A equity

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance

• 401(k) retirement plan

• PTO and company holidays

• Wellness stipend

Compensation

• The salary range for this position is$120,000–$190,000annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for other forms of compensation, including a variable bonus, commission, and/or equity awards.