Customer Success Manager

Description

About O’Reilly Media

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About The Team

We are a global team of Customer Success Managers focused on one mission: to empower our customers to achieve their organizational & individual goals. We prioritize customer success by acting as lead partners and dedicated advocates.

You won’t just be a point of contact—you’ll be the one moving customers from their first login to long-term value. We work cross-functionally to turn user needs into product insights, making sure O’Reilly is built into the fabric of our customers’ engineering cultures. If you’re a problem-solver who loves using data to drive results, you’ll fit right in.

About The Role

The Customer Success Manager is the primary architect of the customer’s learning journey at O’Reilly. In this role, your mission is to ensure customers maximize the ROI of their investment by aligning the OReilly platform with their specific business goals and skill gaps. You are a subject matter expert who guides organizations through onboarding, engagement, and long-term value realization. You will serve as a dedicated advocate, ensuring that the platform is deeply integrated into the customers engineering and professional development culture.

What You’ll Do

• Strategic Value Alignment
• Trusted Advisor: Develop deep relationships with stakeholders to provide best practices, guidance, and strategic roadmaps for workforce transformation.
• Outcome Accountability: Partner with customers to define clear success criteria and business outcomes, then proactively track and report on progress against those objectives.
• Advocacy: Act as the internal voice of the customer, translating user needs and feature requests into actionable insights for the O’Reilly Product and Engineering teams.
• Engagement & Implementation
• Onboarding Excellence: Drive rapid "Time-to-Value" by leading structured onboarding sessions that move customers from initial login to active, habitual usage.
• Continuous Education: Conduct live training, webinars, and feature demonstrations to ensure users are leveraging the latest platform capabilities.
• Health Monitoring: Use data and analytics to monitor account health, identify low-engagement areas, and execute plays to get customers back on track.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Account Strategy: Partner closely with Strategic Account Managers to provide the "Success perspective" for account planning and help identify potential growth areas based on usage trends.
• Issue Orchestration: Serve as the lead point of contact for navigating and resolving critical customer situations, ensuring a seamless experience across all OReilly departments.
  
  
  

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 3+ years in a customer-facing role such as Customer Success, Professional Services, or Technical Consulting.
• Deep understanding of SaaS business models and how to drive user adoption in a subscription-based environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to present confidently to both technical teams and executive leadership.
• Comfortable using data to tell a story and prove the value of a platform to stakeholders.
• Proven ability to build relationships across diverse internal teams (Product, Sales, Services).
  
  
  

• Familiarity with Customer Success platforms (e.g., Gainsight) and CRM tools (Salesforce).
• An understanding of common software development methodologies and basic coding concepts is highly preferred to better assist our technical user base.
  
  
  

• Salary Range: $83,000 - $115,000
• At this time, OReilly Media Inc. is not able to provide visa sponsorship or provide any immigration support (i.e. H-1B, STEM, OPT, CPT, EAD and Permanent Residency process)