Senior Customer Success Manager
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or high-touch client services (preferably in a B2B SaaS environment).
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Who We Are:
At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in expense intelligence, we are creating a future where technology drives business value and inspires extraordinary results. Our AI-powered platform helps organizations modernize financial operations, increase visibility, and optimize spend across the enterprise.
Senior Customer Success Managers are responsible for the post-sales success of a portfolio of customers. As a Sr. CSM, the employee is responsible for making the value of the solution visible to the customers while looking for additional opportunities for the customer to expand their services and products to achieve their goals. The Sr. CSM is also responsible for driving customer adoption and success by providing usage/adoption recommendations, performing Business Reviews and delivering an industry leading customer experience.
**Please note we are not able to offer sponsorship now OR in the future**
\nWhat You'll Do-
Enterprise Relationship & Retention Management: Own the end-to-end relationship for a portfolio of strategic accounts, taking ultimate responsibility for customer retention, driving product adoption, and proactively mitigating churn.
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Commercial Growth & Expansion: Drive revenue growth by identifying upsell/cross-sell opportunities across products and services, leading contract negotiations, and managing renewal/expansion quotas.
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Executive Reviews & Strategy: Host and facilitate Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) with C-suite and key economic buyers, translating performance data into long-term strategic roadmaps.
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Churn Prevention & Save Motions: Manage the customer cancellation workflow by identifying at-risk accounts early, leading targeted commercial and technical save efforts, and conducting root-cause offboarding analysis.
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Escalation & Critical Issue Resolution: Serve as the primary escalation point for customer-impacting roadblocks, orchestrating cross-functional resolution alongside Product, Support, and Engineering.
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Product Education & Best Practices: Provide ongoing customer training, consult on optimal workflows, and deliver industry best practices to ensure continuous value realization throughout the client lifecycle.
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Voice of the Customer (VoC): Advocate internally for customer needs, sharing structured product feedback and actionable insights with Product and Go-to-Market teams.
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Team Mentorship & Onboarding: Assist in onboarding, training, and mentoring newer CSMs, serving as a first-line escalation and peer resource prior to management involvement.
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Process & Playbook Improvements: Partner with CS leadership to develop team-wide initiatives, refine customer-journey workflows, and optimize scalable CS playbooks.
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CRM Hygiene & Portfolio Tracking: Maintain meticulous account health scores, contact details, notes, and renewal pipelines in Salesforce to ensure complete data visibility.
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Evangelism & Industry Presence: Represent the company at customer-facing forums, webinars, and internal panels, staying attuned to market and industry trends to advise customers proactively.
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5+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or high-touch client services (preferably in a B2B SaaS environment).
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Proven experience managing commercial goals, carrying expansion/renewal quotas, and successfully upselling products and services to an existing customer base.
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Familiarity with SaaS contract negotiations, renewal-risk mitigation strategies, and objection handling to protect revenue and prevent churn.
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Exceptional product demonstration skills with the ability to showcase all product features, consult on creative solutions, and translate complex capabilities into client value.
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Hands-on experience working in Salesforce and customer ticketing/case-management tools such as Zendesk.
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High proficiency across business applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Workspace, and video conferencing platforms (Zoom/GoToMeeting).
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Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the polish and confidence to engage C-level executives and key stakeholders.
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Exceptional organizational, time-management, and prioritization skills, with rigorous follow-through to meet shifting deadlines and ensure customer expectations are consistently exceeded.
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Ability to think outside the box to navigate complex customer challenges, troubleshoot roadblocks, and architect win-win outcomes.
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Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, or a related field preferred (or equivalent practical experience).
Why Emburse?
Finance is changing - and at Emburse, we’re leading the way. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations eliminate inefficiencies, gain real-time visibility, and optimize spend - so they can focus on what’s next, not what’s slowing them down.
- A Company with Momentum – We serve 12M+ users across 120 countries, helping businesses modernize
their finance operations.
- A Team That Innovates – Work alongside some of the brightest minds in finance, tech, and AI to solve real-
world challenges.
- A Culture That Empowers – Competitive pay, flexible work, and an inclusive, collaborative environment that
supports your success.
- A Career That Matters – Your work here drives efficiency, innovation, and smarter financial decision-making
for businesses everywhere.
Shape your future & find what’s next at Emburse.
Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
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Responsibilities
The Senior Customer Success Manager is responsible for managing a portfolio of strategic accounts to drive product adoption, retention, and revenue growth through upsells. They also facilitate executive business reviews, resolve critical escalations, and provide mentorship to team members.
Requirements
Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in customer success or account management, preferably within a B2B SaaS environment. Proficiency in Salesforce, contract negotiation, and the ability to engage with C-suite executives are essential requirements.
Skills
- Customer success
- Account management
- SaaS
- Upselling
- Renewal management
- Contract negotiation
- Salesforce
- Zendesk
- Executive business reviews
- Churn prevention
- Product adoption
- Data analysis
- Communication
- Time management
- Strategic planning
- Mentorship
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Flexible work
- Inclusive environment
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Customer Service & Support
- Sales
- Software
- Management & Leadership
- Finance & Accounting
Keywords
- Customer Success
- SaaS
- B2B
- Account Management
- Salesforce
- Zendesk
- Upselling
- Churn Mitigation
- Executive Business Reviews
- EBR
- Renewal
- Product Adoption
- Expense Intelligence
- AI-powered platform
- Financial operations
- Strategic roadmaps
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Data visibility
- Client lifecycle
- Mentorship
- Google Workspace
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Zoom
- GoToMeeting
- Business strategy
- Revenue growth
- Customer experience
- Stakeholder management
- Technical save efforts