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Director, Customer Success Management (MuleSoft)

salesforce.com, inc.
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 9/23/2025 CLOSED ON 10/7/2025

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Customer Success

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About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

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For our customers who wish to get the most value out of MuleSoft with an enterprise experience, they purchase our Signature Success Plan. Signature drives the right insights and people at the right time - which can make all the difference. When you have Signature, you unlock our deepest level of partnership, most skilled expertise, and tools to stay agile.

We are looking for a leader to join our Account Success team within MuleSoft. MuleSoft is a leading platform for building an integrated AI foundation. To power AI and digital transformation initiatives, organizations must bring all of their data, systems, and processes to bear. MuleSoft's all-in-one platform enables teams to deliver agentic AI experiences across the enterprise with seamless connectivity, automation, and control. This role leads the adoption of MuleSoft's products for customers on the Signature Success Plan, including renewals and growth across teams, aligning closely with Territory Sales, Renewals, and Success Plan Sellers, Support, and Product teams. An ideal candidate has a strong background in Customer Success strategies, trends, and outcomes at the enterprise level. The candidate is able to research, synthesize, and develop insights and actions from market intelligence & customer feedback. Customer centricity, teamwork, resourcefulness, flexibility, and a get-it-done demeanor are needed in this role.

Your Impact
  • Interview, onboard, mentor, and promote successful Customer Success Managers (CSMs)
  • Lead a team of 8-12 CSMs, fostering growth and excellence.
  • Address and resolve customer blocking issues as a leader representing Salesforce
  • Implement strategies for Signature Success Plan renewals across teams.
  • Work closely with peers and selling partners on capacity planning for Signature obligations.
  • Align customer allocations with Signature coverage, manage team-based allocations, and synchronize additional cloud resources as needed.
  • Lead oversight on critical customer issues, working across Support, Critical Incident Center, and Engineering until resolution is achieved.
  • Demonstrated competency of working in cross-functional teams (example Sales, Support, Delivery, etc.). Ability to leverage resources and build relationships internally and externally
  • Escalation management: Effectively manages customer escalation (support, relationship, commercial issues) - demonstrates ability to establish a plan for the team, provides hands-on guidance, coaching and jumps in when needed
  • Communicates effectively at the appropriate level with customers (VP/C-level) to secure long term growth, retention, and be trusted advisor
  • Develop strategies to improve the customer experience, team performance, morale, and cohesion with other internal teams.
  • Collaborate on talent retention strategies, encompassing career pathing, promotions, and ongoing training.
  • Ensure teams are proficient in New Product Introductions (NPI) and New Service Introductions (NSI) initiatives.
  • Stay informed on market trends, risks, and opportunities specific to customers and industries, communicating insights to Territory & OU leaders.
  • As a Territory or Cloud Manager, monitor key performance indicators across Customer Health, Salesforce Loyalty, Signature Delivery and Attrition/Growth.
Minimum Requirements
  • Possess a minimum of 5 years in people management roles with direct experience in customer success team management and first line management experience
  • Exhibit strong critical thinking and ability to use data and insights to identify trends and risks.
  • Entrepreneurial and "lead from the front". You're a proven leader and motivator, with deep experience leading technical organizations. You drive results and outcomes while balancing empathy and a people-first culture.
  • You have a strong emotional intelligence for customers and deliver customer support like you expect to receive it; with excellence.
  • You know what to say and more importantly, how to say it. You have demonstrable experience building strong internal and external relations, and influence outcomes and leverage relationships.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce's product offerings, services, and the larger industry landscape.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills
  • Experience with MuleSoft and/or competing platforms in middleware, API management, integration.
  • Experience in driving MuleSoft adoption methodology (e.g., Catalyst)
  • Salesforce product certifications are a plus (AI Associate, Administrator, Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, B2C Commerce Developer, Marketing Cloud: Administrator, Consultant, Email Specialist, Engagement Consultant).
  • Knowledge of Salesforce products and features, capabilities, best use, and how to deploy.
  • Experience working with Enterprise-level customers.
Note: This role is office-flexible, and the expectation is to be in office 3 days per week

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $202,700 to $293,900.For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $185,500 to $268,900.

For Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $185,500 to $268,900.


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