Staff Customer Success Manager, UK
At a glance
Senior Customer Success role at Kong. Remote, United Kingdom · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate £63,063–£89,875 across the United Kingdom.
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What you'll do
- Build customer success plans that connect use cases and roadmaps to measurable business outcomes
- Guide customers through value-focused engagements and clarify how Kong affects their business
- Map customer decision-makers and champions, using partners to reach additional stakeholders
- Review usage data and health signals to spot risks and turn findings into practical next steps
- Lead executive business reviews, explain platform value, and work with account teams on renewals and expansion
What you bring
- You bring resilience and a strong focus on customer goals when setbacks or issues arise
- You listen actively and ask open-ended questions to uncover underlying customer needs
- You have managed several customers and initiatives while balancing adoption, retention, satisfaction and growth
- Fluent English is required; French, German or Spanish fluency is a strong advantage
Who this fits
This role suits a senior customer success professional who can combine technical product knowledge with executive-level customer conversations. It is remote and based in England, United Kingdom.
From the employer
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Staff Customer Success Manager
About the Role:
As a Staff/Senior Customer Success Manager, you will set the standard of what great looks like in our CS organisation. You will master your craft by focusing on the disciplined execution of the Customer Post-Sales Process, directly driving adoption, expansion, and risk mitigation. This role is strategic, requiring you to blend technical knowledge with an executive mindset to deliver exceptional business value.
What You'll Do:
Drive Strategic Customer Success: Develop comprehensive success plans covering use cases, roadmaps, and positive business outcomes.
Value realization: Take customers through a value-based engagement model, and gain a clear understanding of Kong’s impact on their business.
Navigate Complex Organizations: Map customer organizations by building power and influence charts to identify key champions and decision-makers.
Leverage Partner Ecosystems: Utilize partners to uncover new personas within the customer organization and expand stakeholder alignment.
Harness Data & Analytics: Use utilization metrics, Leading Indicators, and tools like Tableau, SFDC, Clari, and Hex to monitor health, identify risks, and extract actionable insights.
Master the Message: Run impactful QBRs/EBRs by adopting an executive mindset, clearly articulating the value of the Kong platform in alignment with the customer’s business needs.
Command the Platform: Confidently articulate the unique value of Kong's components (Dedicated Cloud Gateway, API Gateway, AI Gateway, Mesh Manager, etc.).
Manage Renewals & Forecasting: Collaborate closely with the broader account team to validate renewal timelines, surface cross-sell opportunities, and maintain strong SFDC hygiene
What You'll Bring:
Grit & Determination: Customer obsession and the resilience to bounce back from setbacks, relentlessly pursuing customer goals and overcoming issues.
Curiosity: An inquisitive mindset paired with active listening and probing skills to ask layered, open-ended questions that uncover root causes.
Team-Oriented Mindset: A deeply collaborative approach to achieving shared company goals, rather than focusing solely on individual wins.
Prioritisation: Experience managing multiple customers at a time while focusing on attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives, such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention.
Languages: Fluent English is essential, fluency in French, German or Spanish is highly beneficial.
About Kong:
Kong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.
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