[Hiring] Customer Success Manager @Expel

Role Description

You've helped run a scale or pooled CS model before, or you've been inside one long enough to know what works and what doesn't. You know that scale CS done badly is just support with a fancier title, and done well it's a system that delivers consistent value to hundreds of customers. You want to join and help build the good version.

Expel is an MDR company. Our customers are security teams who depend on us to find and stop threats. We're launching a scale model for a segment of our customer base, and we're building it from scratch: the playbooks, the automation, the operating model, the measurement framework. You won't inherit a finished system. You'll be a primary contributor to designing it.

That means you're not just executing motions. You own specific programs within the model:

• New customer/onboarding cohorts
• Renewal campaigns
• Segment outreach

You exercise judgment on the edge cases the playbook doesn't cover, and you identify patterns across hundreds of customer interactions that tell you where the model needs to improve. When something breaks, you fix the process, not just the situation.

Your success is measured by:

• The team's retention outcomes across the scale segment
• The quality of your execution
• The motions you build and improve

Qualifications

• 2+ years of customer success, account management, or customer-facing experience
• At least 2 years in the security industry (operations, products, consulting, GRC, or incident response)
• Experience in a scale, scaled, or digital CS model is strongly preferred
• Experience designing or significantly improving customer-facing processes or playbooks
• Strong comfort with high-volume, queue-based work and frequent context-switching
• Excellent written communication skills, clear, efficient, and adaptable across customer segments
• Judgment to distinguish between what fits the playbook, what needs creativity, and what needs escalation
• Solid security domain fluency: MDR, EDR, SIEM, NDR, cloud security, and how a real security program fits together
• Familiarity with CS platforms, ticketing systems, and automation tools, with opinions about what works

Requirements

• Help design, execute and continuously improve playbook-driven customer interactions across the scale segment: new customer/onboarding, health checks, renewals, proactive outreach
• Own specific motions or programs within the model, from design through execution and measurement
• Exercise judgment on edge cases, distinguishing between situations that fit the playbook, situations that need a creative solution, and situations that require escalation
• Design and lead one-to-many customer engagements: webinars, digital campaigns, scaled communications
• Identify patterns in customer interactions and translate them into process improvements that make the scale function stronger
• Maintain technical credibility in every interaction, speaking knowledgeably about Expel's service, security operations, and common integration patterns
• Provide coaching and guidance to associate-level team members on process execution and customer handling
• Contribute to the design of the scale operating model itself: systems requirements, automation workflows, measurement frameworks

Benefits

• Base salary range: $93,900 - $136,200 + bonus eligibility and equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Work location flexibility
• Up to 24 weeks of parental leave
• Excellent health benefits