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Role Description

For our customers who wish to get the most value out of Salesforce with enterprise and rapid support, delivered by our most skilled experts, they purchase our Signature Success Plan. When you have Signature, you unlock our deepest level of partnership, most skilled expertise, and tools to stay agile.

As a Customer Success Manager (CSM), you will serve as a named resource and partner for Salesforce’s customer organizations. You are a trusted advisor, forging deep relationships with your customers and account teams and maintaining an awareness of key events, needs, potential risks, and value drivers. With a continual focus on your customers’ business needs, you will help to improve their overall technical and operational health, helping them to realize the maximum value out of their Salesforce investment. You will act as a point of contact for any major customer incidents, being responsible for managing expectations and communications through the resolution of such incidents.

These activities will enable you to proactively set the customer up for success through optimization of the platform, with special care during critically important peak events. This will require deep technical knowledge of the Salesforce platform, and the ability to work closely across internal and external teams to provide a unified Signature experience.

Your Impact

• Serve as the single point of customer accountability responsible for the orchestration of all Signature deliverables, experience, renewal, and expansion.

• Cultivate and maintain stakeholder relationships with the customer’s IT and business executive leadership, sponsors, and decision-makers within customer organizations that have purchased Signature and beyond.

• Help your customers achieve their business goals and outcomes on the Salesforce platform by:

  • Coordinating the completion of the Signature Success catalog of services as required for your customer.

  • Providing timely, proactive Salesforce feature guidance based on the areas of interest for your customer.

  • Acting as an advisor to your customers for the adoption of new features of Salesforce’s annual release schedules and identifying potential challenges and risks to your customer's implementation.

  • Acting as an advisor to your customers for the integration of agentic AI into their business processes, considering technology, workforce, data governance and ethical implications.

• Estimate and communicate the value of Signature Success. Be accountable for ensuring all collaborators understand this value so that customers continue to renew Signature Success.

• Act as an advocate for customers during the triage and resolution of high-severity cases to assist with the timely resolution of these issues.

• The CSM may be required for occasional travel to customer sites and may need to be available for some after-hour or weekend coverage, depending on the customer’s need.

Minimum Requirements

• Italian mother tongue, based in Milan or immediate surroundings.

• Fluent in English, official proficiency certifications are preferred.

• Minimum of 10 years of work experience in one or more of the following: Technical Customer Success, Salesforce CRM or SaaS platform use, project leadership, technology solutions development, technical solutions, and/or solutions architecture.

• Experience with CRM applications, including Salesforce Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud and/or a relevant competing platform.

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills with demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level.

• Ability to explain complex technical concepts in business-friendly terms to customers, then explain customer needs to internal partners.

• Ability to coordinate and work closely with high volume events and/or key events for the customer.

• Experience with leading efforts of cross-functional teams to facilitate resolution or disposition of customer needs or projects.

• AI and Data literacy. AI literacy includes understanding AI concepts like machine learning, agentic AI, responsible use and ethical implications. Data literacy involves data modeling, data strategy and analytics.

• Knowledge of software development process and design methodologies.

Preferred Requirements

• Salesforce product certifications (Agentforce Specialist, Platform Administrator, Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, Data 360) and Trailhead Ranger status and above, are a plus.

• Knowledge of Salesforce products and features, capabilities, best use, and how to deploy.

• Experience working with Enterprise-level customers.

Note: This role is office-flexible, and the expectation is to be in the office or customer site 3 days per week or as needed.