Customer Success Manager

Harness

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Chicago, IL - USA

profile Yearly Salary: $ 115000 - 125000
Posted on: 30+ days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs Menlo Ventures IVP Unusual Ventures Citi Ventures and more. As AI accelerates code creation the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code testing deployments application security reliability compliance and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.

Over the past year Harness powered over 185M deployments 82M builds 18T flag evaluations 8M security scans 9.1B optimized tests 3T protected API calls and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend enabling customers like United Airlines Morningstar and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75% reduce cloud costs by up to 60% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.

With a global team across 14 offices and 25 countries Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery and were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

As a Customer Success Manager at Harness you drive customer outcomes retention and growth by helping customers move from onboarding completion to adoption maturity renewal readiness and expansion. You operate as the primary post sales partner for your accounts building strong stakeholder alignment running a clear operating cadence and translating platform usage into measurable business value.

Success in this role is measured by adoption progress customer health renewal outcomes and customer value realization.

About the Role

  • Drive adoption and outcomes
    • Build and run success plans tied to customer goals milestones and measurable outcomes
    • Establish a repeatable operating cadence that keeps onboarding and adoption moving
    • Monitor engagement and usage signals to proactively remove friction and drive progress
    Lead value communication (QBRs EBRs BVRs)
    • Deliver QBRs and EBRs that connect Harness usage to customer outcomes
    • Produce crisp BVR style recaps that document value delivered risks and next steps
    • Maintain stakeholder alignment across technical and executive audiences
    Own renewal readiness and risk management
    • Maintain clear renewal status timeline and risk posture across your portfolio
    • Surface risk early and coordinate action plans to keep customers on track
    • Partner closely with Sales to ensure renewals are proactive clean and value backed
    Execute with discipline and strong account hygiene
    • Drive clear ownership and follow through on customer action items and escalations
    • Keep customer records accurate and current in Salesforce and Gainsight
    • Coordinate cross functional resources to unblock customers and stabilize outcomes

About You

  • 5 years in Customer Success Technical Account Management or SaaS post sales
  • Track record of driving adoption retention and renewal outcomes in complex accounts
  • Strong executive ready communication and structured customer execution
  • Comfortable working across internal teams to drive results and resolve blockers

    Nice to have
    • Familiarity with DevOps and software delivery concepts (CI/CD governance reliability developer workflows)
Business Skills
  • Excellent presentation skills in addition to verbal and written communication skills
  • Proven effectiveness at leading and facilitating community and executive discussions
  • Ability to translate complex terminology into a clear set of actions and next steps
  • Self starter with an entrepreneurial spirit and can drive action in the face of ambiguity
  • Ability to work autonomously and to prioritize tasks while managing a diverse workload

Location

  • Remote from within the U.S

What You Will Have at Harness

  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
  • Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
  • Monthly quarterly and annual social and team-building events
  • Recharge & Reset Program
  • Monthly internet reimbursement
  • Commuter benefits

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $115000 - $125000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location level relevant experience and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position. The compensation package for this position may also include equity and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link:

A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.

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Please note we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat text or social media and any email communications will come from the domain @. Additionally Harness will never ask for any payment fee to be paid or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commissions website ( or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.


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Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs Menlo Ventures IVP...
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