Customer Success Manager

Customer Success Manager

As a Customer Success Manager at Diligent, you'll be the trusted partner guiding clients through their journey with our solutions. You'll manage a portfolio of accounts, ensuring smooth transitions to updated products while driving customer satisfaction, retention, and engagement. Your role is central to preserving revenue and building lasting relationships, with success measured by metrics like NPS, referrals, and product usage.

As the main point of contact, you'll lead day-to-day account management and collaborate across teams to support onboarding, training, and ongoing success. It's about helping our customers thrive, and making the experience rewarding for everyone involved.

Key Responsibilities

• Renew and grow a set of customer accounts by proactively anticipating needs, recommending additional products and services and providing an excellent customer experience as measured by revenue retention and customer product usage.
• Increase overall client satisfaction with Diligent measured through Net Promoter Score.
• Provide a seamless and 'best in class' customer experience through all phases of the customer lifecycle - coordinating with the client implementation and project teams, administrative staff, IT Team, and users of the Diligent application/s.
• Collaborate internally to be the voice of the customer across other departments, including with the sales, expansion, services, marketing, finance, customer transactions and operations teams.
• Be heavily intertwined with the Expansion Sales team in spotting, qualifying and passing on expansion leads.
• Facilitation alongside the Implementation team of Diligent's product and modules with senior stakeholders to the client including C-Suite and Directors.
• Build and maintain strong direct client relationships with key stakeholders & retain those relationships.
• Seek out client advocacy related initiatives.

Required Experience/Skills

• Up To 3 years of experience required.
• Build and maintain strong direct client relationships with key stakeholders & retain those relationships.
• Seek out client advocacy related initiatives.
• Some account management experience (preferably in SaaS) is desirable.
• Some experience in sales CRM applications such as Salesforce.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving ability, with a natural curiosity around the client's business needs.
• High level of resilience and a positive attitude when faced with adversity.
• Passionate about technology with a solution-centric mindset.

What Diligent Offers You

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
• We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney. To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.