Technical Customer Success Manager

About Opal Security:

At Opal were building modern identity governance for the AI eraintelligent access management that empowers enterprises to move fast while staying secure. Our mission is to bring clarity control and confidence to complex enterprise environments helping teams govern access without slowing down innovation.

The Role:

Opal is at an inflection point and we need someone to help us nail what comes after the customer says yes.

Were looking for a technical-minded person who can take our post-sales motion from good to exceptional. This is your chance to re-architect customer success with the freedom to make it yours. Youll follow a player-coach model: rolling up your sleeves with customers while building the foundation for a world-class team that scales with us.

What Youll Do:

• Embody the team that customers rave about: youll rebuild our customer success practices establishing the processes metrics and culture that turn good relationships into great outcomes.

• Be the first line of technical defense: when customers hit a snag youre who they call. Youll troubleshoot integrations diagnose configuration issues and resolve problems on the spot and know exactly when to escalate to engineering for the complex stuff.

• Own the health of our customer base: renewals retention and proactive engagement all fall under your scope. Youll develop the frameworks and leading indicators that help us spot opportunities (and risks) before they become obvious ensuring customers extract maximum value from Opal Security at every stage of their journey.

• Be the bridge between customers and product: youll partner closely with our product and engineering teams to champion customer needs influence what we build next and ensure were delivering real value beyond just features. Your voice will truly shape our roadmap.

• Guide customers from onboarding to advocacy: youll manage strategic relationships across our diverse customer base from Fortune 500 enterprises to cutting-edge AI startups like Runway and Perplexity serving as their trusted advisor on access management and security. These arent transactional relationships; theyre trusted and secure partnerships.

You Might Be a Fit If You:

• Youve been in the trenches know what great looks like and lead with customer empathy: you bring 6 years in customer success account management or solutions engineering with a track record of driving real outcomes at scale. Youve seen what works and more importantly what doesnt and you can translate that into frameworks that others can follow. And always you feel for your customers

• You thrive in or are intrigued by the fun crazy thrill of startups: youve worked at a Series A-C company and know how to build scalable processes while everything around you is moving fast and ever-changing. Youre not paralyzed by ambiguity you lean into it and create clarity for others

  • Its OKAY if you havent worked early stage but you gotta want it!

• You speak tech fluently: whether its solutioning live with customers working with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or knowing a technical product front to back you can go deep when needed. Customers trust you because you understand how things actually work

• You know the identity and security landscape: youve worked in or adjacent to identity access management or security and you understand the unique challenges of building customer trust in these high-stakes domains. You get why this stuff matters.

  • This is ideal but not required

Required Experience:

Manager