Strategic Customer Success Manager

About us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.

Hybrid work

Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in Australia, India, Ireland, Türkiye, and other US locations. Our robust hybrid work model spans San Francisco, Denver, Ankara, Dublin, and Melbourne. This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub. Learn more about us on our company page.

About your skills

• Strategic Relationship Building and Account Management: The ability to establish and maintain trusted relationships with executive stakeholders and decision-makers, manage a portfolio of enterprise-level customers, and develop tailored account strategies. This skill is essential for achieving high retention rates and driving revenue expansion through cross-sell and upsell opportunities.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication: Proficiency in collaborating with teams such as Sales, Professional Services, Marketing, Product, and Data Science. This involves effectively translating customer feedback into product requirements, and developing strategic account plans. Strong communication skills are vital for coordinating efforts and delivering thought leadership.

• Customer-Centric Problem Solving and L&D Strategy Consulting: Expertise in understanding and consulting on learning and development (L&D) strategies, guiding customers to drive organizational change, and solving complex problems. This skill requires curiosity, adaptability, and innovation to meet customer needs and enhance platform adoption.

• Data-Driven Decision-Making and Process Optimization: Ability to use customer insights and data to inform decisions, improve customer experiences, and optimize retention and adoption rates. This skill also involves creating scalable processes and materials for both internal teams and customers to support efficient operations and team growth.

​These skills reflect the combination of relationship management, strategic insight, data proficiency, and collaborative effort needed to thrive in this role.

About this role

The Strategic CSM will engage with customers from pre-sales team selling through post-sales implementation, adoption, and expansion. The Strategic CSMs manage a book of 8 - 10 customers and a total book of at least $6.5M ARR. Critical metrics include GRR, expansion, and exective engagement.

What you’ll be doing  

• Proactively own and manage the success of a portfolio of high-potential Strategic enterprise-level Udemy Business (UB) customers and develop individual success plans for each customer.

• Be an expert on the UB Platform, with a deep understanding of our technology and content and consult with customers on their internal learning and development strategy and challenge leaders to drive change across their organization.

• Create and implement internal promotion programs within customer organizations to generate awareness and drive usage of UB.

• Engage customers via high-quality thought leadership delivered in presentations, written documents, and face-to-face engagements

• Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships at the executive level and partner with Sales to develop an account strategy for each Enterprise customer to hit retention and upsell targets

• Develop an appropriate customer experience for high-value customers that increases likelihood of retention, cross-sell, and upsell.

• This role requires deep cross-functional partnership across mutliple departments and levels within Udemy

• Own the creation of internal and customer facing processes, programs and materials to improve the quality and efficiency of the Strategic Customer Success team. In particular, create a blueprint for success of future Growth-focused roles on the Strategic Customer Success team.

• Deep research for understanding of all customer’s business objectives and industry objectives

What you’ll have

• Intensely curious, lifelong learner with 5-8 years of B2B SaaS customer success, account management, consulting and/or sales experience working with large, enterprise-level accounts

• At least 2 years of experience working with Fortune 500 and industry-leading organizations with demonstrated success in retaining large customers (>$250k ARR) and growing customers (multiple examples of upsell/expansion over $200k)

• Experience working with HR/L&D customers

• Ability to build and nurture trusted relationships and ability to identify, work and close complex deals

• Experience developing strategies to increase adoption of technology solutions

• Basic understanding of concepts related to customer integrations (e.g,, Single Sign-On, APIs, feature customization, etc.)

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and superior project and time management skills; excellent attention to detail

• Ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced, start-up environment, but also an interest in helping build sustainable processes

At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for benefits, equity and uncapped OTE.Base Salary Compensation Range$130,000—$162,000 USD

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

Life at Udemy 

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

• We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.

• Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.

• Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.

• We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work. 

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. 

Our Benefits Start with U

Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our US Benefits and Ireland Benefits pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process.

Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.

Apply