Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Customer Success at the Senior Principal level is a core SaaS function because it connects recurring revenue outcomes to real operational adoption. This role sits in the post sales layer where product value must be proven continuously, and it does so in a context that spans IT, Engineering, and Support stakeholders. The travel expectation signals a book of business where in person executive alignment still matters, typical of complex SaaS deployments tied to operational reliability.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work develops durable skills in adoption strategy, renewal risk management, and cross functional orchestration across Sales, Services, and Product. The emphasis on ROI modeling and business reviews builds fluency in value based outcomes, a differentiator for senior Customer Success leaders in subscription businesses. Exposure to product change communication, incident impacts, and lifecycle events also strengthens understanding of how operational realities influence retention.
This position suits an established CSM who prefers strategic account leadership over high volume reactive support. It will fit professionals comfortable moving between technical depth and executive narrative, and those who like shaping multi quarter plans with measurable milestones. It also aligns with candidates who want a remote role but see periodic onsite engagement as part of earning trusted advisor status.
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
The Senior Principal Customer Success Manager is aligned at the customers' key stakeholder level, building and fostering strong relationships to help customers accelerate their digital journey. The ideal candidate possesses the below qualifications and is willing to travel up to 25% of their time for in-person customer meetings. Customer Success Managers are working directly with customers that can vary in their market segment, size, solution complexity and life cycle, depending on the customers needs.
Responsibilities:
- Build and foster executive-level trusted advisor relationships with the customers’ IT, Engineering and Support organizations.
- Demonstrates hands-on PagerDuty Product knowledge by applying it to the customer's business priorities.
- Guide a customer on process, people and change management best practices to drive customers adoption of real time operations.
- Proactively identify risks to the customer achieving their stated business goals and work with the sales team to build a risk mitigation plan.
- Produce and execute a comprehensive adoption path of PagerDuty products, showing the current state, target future state with timeline.
- Deliver business value and innovation to a customer’s business by understanding the customers’ opportunity to reduce cost and drive growth.
- When appropriate, recommend additional expert services needed to drive success.
- Proactively communicate technical product changes, degradations, outages, end of life and other relevant updates.
- Represent the voice of the customer to inform our sales process or product roadmap.
- Lead the cross functional post sales team at PagerDuty, delivering a seamless experience on behalf of the customer.
- Prepare and facilitate business review meetings, training sessions, webinars, demos, and other strategic and supportive interactions.
- Predict and forecast risk, renewal and expansion within the customer portfolio.
Basic Qualifications:
- 8-10 years of relevant customer-facing experience and a demonstrated track record of success
- Proficiency in developing comprehensive business value ROI models, with an ability to drive strategic decision-making and deliver tangible results
- In-depth expertise in SaaS business models, including a strong understanding of market trends, competitive landscapes, and customer needs
- Strong understanding of IT enterprise architecture, DevOps principles and modern IT monitoring
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong consulting skills and proven results working as a trusted advisor to drive business value for customers.
- Knowledge of PagerDuty products and platform features/capabilities
- Thrive in a collaborative fast pace environment and as a part of a results oriented team.
- Ability to drive effective and influencing conversations at the C-level; facilitation of difficult discussions and adept at handling objections.
- Worked in a DevOps environment or with a company going through a transition to DevOps.
The base salary range for this position is $112,000 - $154,900 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.
Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.
