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What's a typical career path for a customer success manager?

Christine Knific
mParticle by Rokt Senior Director, Customer Success - North America3y
There are so many career paths for a Customer Success Manager! I don't view the CSM's path as necessarily linear, but a "typical" one might be: Customer Success Associat...
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John Brunkard
Adobe Head of Customer Success (Asia) | Formerly Sitecore, Red Hat, Symantec, Blue Coat, Intel, Dell, Dialogic3y
There are many possible paths for a Customer Success Manager. Some examples are; Individual Contributor (IC) Path Associate Customer Success Manager => Customer Suc...
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Meenal Shukla
Zoom Head of Scaled Customer Success, Onboarding, Learning and Adoption3y
Growth opportunities abound for really effective and successful CSMs. Jungle GYM: We have seen and heard of Customer Success Managers moving into literally every depart...
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Rebecca Warren
Eightfold Director, Customer Success2y
Our current path goes CSM - Sr. CSM - Principal CSM - Mgr, CSM - Dir, CSM - Sr Dir, CSM. I think there are options along the way as well to move into or come from pre-sa...
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Rox Fitzmaurice
Jellyfish Director of Customer Success6mo
A “typical” career path for a Customer Success Manager (CSM) often starts with building deep expertise in Customer Success and applying that knowledge through impactful c...
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Ed Sowden
Splunk EMEA Director of Customer Success6mo
There is no typical career path for a CSM. Some people may want to go into management and some may want to become a senior or strategic CSM. I've seem many CSM's grow the...
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