Customer Success Manager

Job Description

You will use your extensive experience and consultative selling skills to communicate our solutions to a highly technical audience at some of the largest companies in the world. You will be responsible for maintaining relationships with our customers to drive high retention rates and successfully position DomainTools as a critical element in their critical SecOps workflow.

You will be responsible for managing accounts from initial onboarding through securing renewals while also working in an account team with an expansion manager to grow bookings within your assigned accounts.

We want a collaborative and energetic individual that will  drive superior customer engagement.  This role will contribute to the overall go-to-market (GTM) team, work in a dynamic environment and deliver messaging and product feedback back into the rest of the organization.

The Customer Success Manager role includes but is not limited to the following responsibilities:

Lifecycle Management & Onboarding

• Seamless Transitions: Manage the formal hand-off from new logo Account Executives (AEs) to ensure a smooth transition into the customer lifecycle.
• Implementation & Training: Facilitate technical integrations during onboarding and lead product training sessions to drive early adoption.
• Structured Engagement: Proactively schedule and execute onboarding milestones, including initial check-ins and mid-contract Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs).
• Lifecycle Stewardship: Own the end-to-end journey for active contract customers, focusing on onboarding, adoption, and consistent consumption. We call this Customer Activation.

Strategic Relationship Management

• Trusted Advisor Status: Cultivate deep relationships with IT leaders, executive sponsors, and decision-makers to become a primary advocate and "champion builder." Become, and help enable your team members become, “multi-threaded”relationships  within each account.
• Strategic Planning: Lead QBRs to review product consumption, share roadmap/feature updates, and ensure customers are realizing the full value of their scoped solutions.
• Product Expertise: Maintain expert-level knowledge of Cyber Threat Intelligence, proprietary data sets, and the competitive landscape to provide high-value consulting.

Retention, Expansion, & Revenue

• Commercial Accountability: Own and complete on-time renewals for your assigned Book of Business.
• Growth Partnership: Collaborate with expansion partners to manage the sales process, meeting specific quota targets for Renewals and Lift (Upsell/Cross-sell).
• Forecasting Accuracy: Utilize Clari, Salesforce and Gainsight to maintain precise data on pipeline management, customer health scores, and opportunity forecasting.

Risk Mitigation & Customer Advocacy

• Health Analysis: Continuously analyze customer engagement data to identify churn risks and execute proactive "get well" action plans that reduce churn risk.
• Escalation Leadership: Act as the internal voice of the customer during high-severity support cases, coordinating across cross-functional teams to ensure timely resolution.
• Predictive Support: Identify potential challenges and risks in new feature adoption or release schedules before they impact the customer experience.

Internal Leadership & Collaboration

• Sales Alignment: Partner with Sales stakeholders to validate that customers are achieving the ROI and outcomes defined during the pre-sales process.
• Value Communication: Clearly articulate the DomainTools value proposition to all internal and external collaborators to secure long-term brand loyalty.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in global multinational account management roles working with technology solutions (Ideally within the Cyber Security industry)
•  Direct account experience working with the largest global organizations (Global F100) and country governments.
• Direct experience with cybersecurity solutions, DNS specific experience preferred
• SaaS offerings experience, with a proven track record of success in both retention and expansion
• Ability to influence key decision makers and to negotiate effectively based on value and time to close
• An analytical approach to customer engagement, pipeline management, and improving overall customer success and support  
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple priorities effectively, collaborate internally to get things done and be accountable for your performance based on assigned goals.
• Be available to travel during the year to represent DomainTools at trade events and shows to help drive pipeline growth and increase DomainTools brand presence
• Meet or exceed role specific KPIs

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation: $150,000 On-Target Earnings (OTE) consisting of base salary + commission

Benefits

DomainTools is the global leader for Internet intelligence and the first place security practitioners go when they need to know. The world’s most advanced security teams use our solutions to identify external risks, investigate threats, and proactively protect their organizations in a constantly evolving threat landscape. DomainTools constantly monitors the Internet and brings together the most comprehensive and trusted domain website and DNS data to provide immediate context and machine-learning driven risk analytics delivered in near real-time. 

DomainTools offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees that includes fully paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums, a 401k retirement plan with company matching, basic life insurance, flexible PTO and additional well-being benefits. 

DomainTools embraces diversity, equity and inclusion to its fullest as an equal opportunity employer. We build our teams so creativity and innovation can flourish. We believe inclusivity and equity fosters innovation and growth, and we harness this mindset to drive a culture that serves our employees and our customers. We encourage people of all backgrounds, ages, perspectives and skill sets to apply; and do not discriminate based on age, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.