Job Description

About GitHub: GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development -- powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Overview:

GitHub is seeking a Senior Manager of Customer Success Management to lead a team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) dedicated to helping our customers achieve their desired outcomes. We are passionate about customer success and the quality of our work. The ideal candidate will have enterprise experience, emerging people leadership skills, and the ability to manage a portfolio of customers within a segment/vertical with complex technical products across the GitHub Platform.



This individual will coach team members to guide customers in managing change initiatives by applying knowledge of change management principles. They will establish standard processes for the team to offer feedback and insights, helping customers set and achieve their digital and business transformation goals. The role involves managing, fostering, and leveraging relationships with key partners to drive business results. They guide the team in acting as the voice of the customer by driving new feedback. This role includes people management responsibilities, such as supporting employee development, overseeing project execution, and managing team performance.




Responsibilities:
Drive, Deliver and Demonstrate Value for Customers: Develop, execute, engage and enable adoption, while building alignment with internal stakeholders, create initiatives to expand product awareness, and identify new growth opportunities for customers. Support escalations, expansion and renewal opportunities. Recruit, Retain, Grow Your Team: Build and manage a pipeline of candidates, uphold a high bar for excellence, proactively manage performance expectations, create and maintain a team-based culture focused on customer outcomes while navigating constant change, and mentor and grow your team of CSMs. Voice of the Customer: Drive alignment and engagement with customers, develop and support mechanisms to share customer feedback with Product, Engineering and Marketing teams, and develop organizational superfans to help evangelize within customer organizations and externally with other GitHub customers. Own & Report on Key Metrics: Drive product adoption metrics, customer health metrics, revenue retention and growth, and deployment and implementation rates.



Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

7+ years experience in customer success management, software adoption management, technical account management, professional services consulting, service delivery management or customer facing program management, executive stakeholder management + - OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology or related eld AND 5+ years experience in customer success management, software adoption management, technical account management, professional services consulting, service delivery management or customer facing program management, executive stakeholder management
- OR Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology or related eld AND 3+ years experience in customer success management, software adoption management, technical account management, professional services consulting, service delivery management or customer facing program management, executive stakeholder management
- OR equivalent experience
3+ years as a Senior CSM and/or principal and/or team lead experience OR 1+ year(s) formal people management experience. Experience guiding enterprise organizations and internal teams through transformational change in technical domains. Ability to travel approximately 25%

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated ability to manage distributed teams across multiple verticals like B2B Tech, Software, Digital primarily located in EMEA Strong interpersonal and communication skills, especially when working with internal teams, especially across the revenue organization. Experience working in the software development or DevOps domains. Experience with CSP and CRM tools / solutions. Experience leveraging AI powered solutions for CSM engagements. Experience with executive stakeholder management



GitHub Leadership Principles:

GitHub values

Customer-obsessed Ship to learn Growth mindset Own the outcome Better together Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

Model Coach Care

Leadership principles

Create clarity Generate energy Deliver success

Who We Are: GitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We're also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world's software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We're remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are--because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let's change the world, together.

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