Manager, Customer Success
Posit
| Company | Posit |
| Category | Customer Support |
| Location | USA - Remote |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 23 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 9 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
Posit is looking for a thoughtful and strategic Manager, Customer Success to help scale our growing post-sales organization. This is a high-impact role—perfect for a leader who thrives in cross-functional environments, brings out the best in others, and knows how to operationalize success at scale. You’ll lead a team of talented CSMs who are each focused on a portfolio of strategic accounts, with the goal of delivering measurable outcomes, strengthening customer partnerships, and building a high-performing team.
You’ll bring clarity, structure, and a customer-first mindset to everything you do—driving excellence through coaching, process improvement, and deep cross-functional collaboration. As part of Posit’s mission-driven team, you’ll play a key role in helping organizations around the world harness the power of open-source data science tools to solve real-world problems.
In This Role, You Will
Team leadership & coaching: Team leadership & coaching: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of Customer Success Managers by providing structured coaching, clear expectations, and ongoing development to help them thrive and deliver measurable value to customers
Performance management: Establish clear expectations and KPIs aligned to retention, expansion, customer health, and strategic impact—ensuring consistent team performance and accountability
Customer advocacy: Serve as a trusted advisor and escalation point for key accounts—helping customers navigate change, ensuring Posit remains relevant to their evolving needs, and reinforcing long-term relationships through strategic engagement
Cross-functional leadership: Build strong partnerships with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Support—aligning on shared goals, proactively resolving risks, and driving initiatives that improve the end-to-end customer experience
Process and program design: Design and evolve scalable playbooks, engagement models, and reporting systems—using customer insights as a key input to ensure they remain relevant, consistent, and impactful across the customer lifecycle
Hands-on execution (as needed): Step in when necessary to support high-stakes accounts, model best practices, or refine the customer journey—while empowering your team to lead day to day
What We’re Looking For
Significant experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or post-sales roles in software
Experience leading enterprise teams, ideally with technical customers
A coaching-first mindset with a track record of developing high-performing teams
Strong operational skills—able to build and refine playbooks, reporting, and workflows
Strategic prioritization skills to focus team efforts where they’ll have the greatest impact
Clear communicator and effective collaborator across functions and levels
Comfortable navigating escalations and serving as a trusted advisor to key accounts
Adaptable, with a bias toward action and comfort working through ambiguity in a fast-moving, remote environment
Comfort working with AI tools and driving AI process improvements
Nice to Have
Familiarity with Salesforce, Gong, Confluence, Outreach, or similar tools
Background in data science, analytics, or open-source communities
Experience with on-prem and hybrid solutions
Prior work in a fully remote, distributed team environment
What You’ll Accomplish
Within 3 months, you will…
Complete onboarding and build foundational knowledge of Posit’s platform, customers, and success motion
Build trust with your team and begin 1:1 coaching and performance alignment
Identify immediate workflow, reporting, or process gaps and begin shaping improvements
Establish working relationships with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Product leaders
Within 6 months, you will…
Drive consistent execution of core customer success activities across your team’s portfolio
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