Customer Success Manager

Harness

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Chicago, IL - USA

profile Yearly Salary: $ 115000 - 125000
Posted on: 10 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised $240M in Series E venture funding is valued at $5.5B and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs Menlo Ventures IVP Google Ventures J.P. Morgan Capital One Ventures Citi Ventures ServiceNow Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industrys leading AI-powered software delivery platform enabling teams worldwide to build test and deliver software faster safer and more reliably. Writing code is only 3040% of the engineering lifecycle the rest involves testing deployments security compliance and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop turning complex time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products inCI/CD Feature Flags Cloud Cost Management Service Reliability Chaos Engineering Software Engineering Insights Internal Developer Experience and API discovery observability governance and runtime protection. Over the past year Harness powered 128M deployments 81M builds 1.2T API calls protected and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven 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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Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised $240M in Series E venture funding is valued at $5.5B and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs Menlo Ventures IVP Google Ventures J.P. Morgan Capital On...
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