Customer Success Manager

Proofpoint

Proofpoint

Administration
California, USA
Posted on Apr 24, 2025

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Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.

The Role -Customer Success Manager

The Customer Success Manager is to ensure that our customers realize the full value of the products and services they have purchased from Proofpoint, ultimately maximizing renewals and add-on transactions.

This is a post- sales, customer-centric role in a fast-paced environment that demands interaction with enterprises at senior levels, as well as with technical staff within the traditional IT and Security organization.

Successful candidates will have outstanding communication skills with a proven track record of successfully interacting with customers regarding business and technical interests alike; a strong technical background, especially related to cybersecurity; extensive experience driving concurrent projects and issues to completion with little or no direction, and above all a passion for ensuring a world class customer experience.

Your day-to- day:

Guide customers through each phase of their Proofpoint journey, serving as a trusted advisor through specific activities aimed at providing realized value from their partnership with us.

Create and maintain Customer Success Plans (CSP) for each of your customers that align with their strategic goals and leverages language meaningful to them. Secure approval from your customers’ decision makers on the CSP’s content and timeline.

Meet regularly with customers for health checks to review product adoption and provide them with specific, actionable guidance on how they can get more value from what they already own.

Be a relentless advocate for customers to help ensure that Proofpoint deployments are successful.

Consistently gather feedback to identify trends and acting as the voice of the customer, provide that structured feedback to product management.

Identify At Risk customers that are not achieving their desired outcome and as needed, lead cross-functional efforts to get those customers back on track. Engage appropriate team members from cross functional groups such as Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Support, and Professional Services to help address underlying causes of churn and dissatisfaction.

Learn and document your customers’ environment to ensure their success with the current tech stack and identify opportunities for new solutions to address their pain points or help them exploit new markets.

What you bring to the team

3 + years of industry leadership experience in a customer success, sales engineer, senior support engineer, or other customer facing role with exposure to multiple technology areas

Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of customer success principles and the rationale for the related behavior

Must be able to articulate customer business requirements and serve as the customer voice internally, even anticipating customer needs based on common scenarios experienced

Demonstrate a high level of engagement with custo
College degree in a business area, technical area or equivalent.


Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!