Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Customer Success Manager role sits at a core SaaS inflection point: the post–go-live phase where product value must be proven, expanded, and sustained. The remit spans adoption, retention risk, and account growth, with close partnership across sales and solutions architecture—an operating model common in technically oriented SaaS where outcomes depend on both product usage and implementation quality.
From a SaaS career perspective, the role builds durable strengths in lifecycle management: translating product capabilities into measurable business impact, running enablement, and using account signals to prioritise interventions. The emphasis on documenting ROI and proactively managing churn risk develops a metric-driven approach that transfers well across subscription businesses, particularly those with complex deployments and multiple stakeholders.
This position will suit professionals who enjoy structured customer engagement combined with problem-solving across technical and commercial constraints. It aligns well with someone comfortable operating with partial process definition, coordinating cross-functional resources, and communicating credibly from end users to executive sponsors. It is also a strong fit for those who want to deepen expertise in customer advocacy while staying close to revenue-critical motions like renewals and expansion.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
At Algolia, we are passionate about our customers so we’re looking for an all star Customer Success Manager who is ready to join our growing team. We need a dedicated advocate who possesses impeccable relationship management skills, can take the lead on solving issues, drive maximum value/ success to existing customers, inspire and sell the future of Algolia, encourage adoption and expansion, all while building delightful and long-lasting relationships. You will work closely with our Account Executives and Solutions Architects to ensure customers achieve their business objectives, advise them on best practices and act as the voice of the customers internally.
We want resilient problem solvers who aren’t afraid to think outside the box and get their hands dirty. We expect you to take ownership and be able to execute without defined processes and implicit direction. We're looking for candidates who raise the level of our teams. You should value and practice transparency, have the humility to accept your weaknesses and continuously strive to improve both personally and professionally. Are you ready for the challenge?
YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:
- Drive and nurture post go-live customers by increasing adoption and value realisation leading to their success, retention and ultimately growth
- Lead the enablement of our users by conducting product trainings
- Work in partnership with Solutions Architects to guide customers through the project management and technical requirements of their Algolia implementation
- Provide regular, proactive recommendations to optimise the use of our platform
- Maximise the adoption of our product features in order to maximise the value driven by our product
- Document and clearly articulate the Return on Investment driven by our solution
- Identify accounts that are likely at risk of churn and work proactively with AEs and Renewal Account Executives to eliminate that risk
- Identify opportunities to expand our partnership with customers
- Analyse accounts that have been lost, identify reasons for churning
- Ensure all account issues are quickly resolved, utilising resources from cross-functional teams internally
- Function as the voice of the customer and provide internal feedback on how Algolia can better serve them
- Track key account metrics
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
- Fluency in English
- Secondary language beneficial
- 2 - 3 years relevant work experience in customer success, account management, digital consultancy or project management, preferably in a SaaS business
- Experience working with a portfolio of accounts, supporting a highly technical product
- Demonstrated ability to establish relationships, credibility, present, and to communicate effectively at all levels of an organisation
- Ability to set priorities, drive decisions and get closure on recommendations and issues
- Ability to influence others towards continuous improvement, both internally and externally
- Experience successfully managing customer engagements to completion and customer satisfaction
- Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills
- Proven time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks
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