Strategic Customer Success Manager
Checkr
About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.
We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
We are seeking a Strategic Customer Success Manager to own and grow relationships with Truework’s most important customers. In this role, you will drive measurable business outcomes by aligning Truework’s solutions to customer objectives, leading adoption and value realization, and serving as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders. You will manage a portfolio of strategic accounts, ensuring high retention, renewals, and expansion through data-driven engagement and proactive account leadership. The ideal candidate is articulate, credible, and metrics-driven, with a proven track record of building executive relationships within large organizations and driving long-term customer success.
Position Responsibilities:
- Own customer success for 10–15 strategic accounts ($100K–$1M ACV), driving adoption, value realization, renewals, and long-term account growth across the full customer lifecycle.
- Act as a trusted advisor and industry SME, building executive-level relationships by demonstrating deep domain expertise, articulating product value, and aligning solutions to customer business objectives.
- Lead onboarding, enablement, and ongoing training programs to ensure rapid time-to-value, sustained engagement, and expanding use cases across customer organizations.
- Deliver data-driven business reviews and success planning, leveraging analytics to measure ROI, track milestones, assess risk, and guide strategic decisions for both customers and internal stakeholders.
- Proactively manage customer health and critical issues, diagnosing root causes, coordinating cross-functional resolution, and coaching customers toward effective solutions that maximize product impact.
- Drive retention, renewals, and expansion by partnering closely with Account Executives on strategic account plans, identifying growth opportunities, mitigating risk, and exceeding net retention targets.
- Serve as the voice of the customer internally, sharing insights with Product, Sales, Marketing, and Operations to influence roadmap priorities, improve user experience, and accelerate adoption and usage velocity.
- Cultivate customer advocacy and operational excellence, fostering referenceable relationships, contributing to case studies and speaking opportunities, and developing scalable processes and best practices to continuously improve customer outcomes.
What you bring:
- 4+ years customer success experience, preferably for a SaaS or financial services product
- Proven ability to maintain highly valuable and outcome-based relationships with a diverse customer account base
- Outstanding multi-task task management skills across a varied set of responsibilities
- Passion for working with customers and a desire to deeply understand the Truework Income products, use cases, and technical elements
- Strong communication skills (written, verbal, presentation), with the ability to explain technical subjects to non-technical end user personnel in large enterprises
- Ability to build credibility and trust by understanding and addressing customer requirements
- Willing to travel quarterly based on customer and business need
What you’ll get
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
Pay Transparency Disclosure
One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.
At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, Nashville, TN, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages. A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
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