Sr. Customer Success Manager - Enterprise (East)

Smartsheet; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Smartsheet is seeking a Sr. Customer Success Manager to build high-value relationships with large customers and drive strategic adoption of the Smartsheet platform.

The role requires extensive SaaS CS experience, strong business acumen, and exceptional communication, with remote work flexibility. Reporting to a Manager of Customer Success, you will lead thought leadership initiatives, contribute to special programs, and partner with Sales to align account plans with customer goals and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in SaaS Customer Success.
• Strong business acumen and communication skills.
• Thought leadership and mentorship experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted advisor to customers and unlock Smartsheet value.
• Develop AI Adoption Roadmaps and CS Plans
• Build and sustain executive-level relationships (VP/C-suite)
• Partner with Sales to drive renewals, expansion and value realization
• Use data to drive adoption, mitigate risk, and inform strategy
• Lead multi-threaded stakeholder maps and strategic account plans
• Provide customer insights to Product, Marketing, and Sales teams

Skills

SaaS CS leadership

Executive relationships

AI adoption

Strategic advisory

Tools

CRM (Salesforce)

Job description

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day.The Sr. Customer Success Manager focuses on building high-value, strategic relationships with large customers. The role requires extensive experience in SaaS Customer Success, strong business acumen and exceptional communication skills.

The Sr. Customer Success Manager is expected to provide thought leadership and mentorship, as well as lead and/or contribute to special programs and projects. For the right candidate, this is a career-defining opportunity to join the market leader in Collaborative Work Management (CWM) and help influence the future of Customer Success as a vocation.

This role reports to a Manager of Customer Success and has flexibility to work remotely.

You Will:

• Act as a trusted advisor, partnering with customers to unlock the full potential of Smartsheet's platform from core workflows through to AI-powered capabilities that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain AI Adoption Roadmaps and Customer Success Plans that connect Smartsheet's AI features to each customer's strategic priorities and goals.
• Build and sustain trusted, multi-threaded relationships at the VP and C-Suite level, serving as a long-term strategic partner through high-impact QBRs and Executive Business Reviews.
• Navigate complex organizational structures to develop a robust stakeholder map, ensuring relationships are resilient to executive turnover and aligned to evolving business strategy.
• Partner with Sales to build Account Plans and Value Realization frameworks that drive renewal confidence, mitigate churn, and translate into expansion, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities.
• Use data to gain insights, increase customer adoption, and proactively identify and mitigate risk across your book of business — grounded in an understanding of each customer's business model, go-to-market strategy, and organizational structure.
• Create and execute territory engagement plans and joint customer enablement plans grounded in customer-specific data, with a focus on value realization and tailored strategy.
• Serve as a thought leader, advising customers on industry best practices and how to solve complex business problems using the Smartsheet platform.
• Provide customer insight to internal teams — Product, Marketing, and Sales — to inform innovation, roadmap prioritization, and go-to-market strategy.
• Manage a diverse book of business at scale, serving as a Core Platform and Premium Application SME to accelerate engagement, enablement, and adoption across the full Smartsheet platform.
• Effectively partner with cross-functio